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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1012, 15 December 1881, Page 3

Some amusement was caused at the Lower Hutt railway station a few evenings ago. In the evening train which left Wellington for Upper Hutt, were a candidate for Parliamentary honours and his agent, the former proceeding to woo the electors, the latter probably attending to start the applause. When the train reached the Lower Hutt, the agent looked out. and espied two likely-looking Huttite electors who had not been canvassed, and towards these be made a dart, calling upon the candidate to follow him. The electors were soon buttonholed and cornered out of sight, while the procees of vote extraction was vigorously carried on. They heard not the warning bell nor the shrill screech of the engine-whistle, and, alas 1 the train went off without the most important portion of its living freight. Just as the guard-van was leaving the platform, the touting agent’s eye caught its retreating form and away he rushed with a deafening shout to the engine-driver to pull up. He caught hold of tbr> . --d of the van and frantically folic •• alongside, while his. principal ran I , hind puffing more vigorously th;-. . :.e engine. The spectators !<><■’ and greatly enjoyed the fu. . T;e engine-driver at length increased the speed, and, the agent, finding his arms nearly torn from their sockets, was obliged to letgo and return with his principal to the station, where they were mercilessly chaffed. They hired a buggy later on and reached their destination in safety. —Wellington Evening Post.