The following is told in connection with a candidate for the Mount Ida constituency :—-It seems that the candidate in question waited at. the chief polling place till all the returns were in, save one, and at this stage of the proceedings his opponent had a fairly respectable majority. Disgusted at the absence of public gratitude he hastily packed up , his portmanteau, and incontinently quitted the scene, shaking the dust off his shoes as he went. Scarcely an hour had passed when a constable brought in the last return from a far locality, upon the receipt of which it was found that the departed candidate was at the head of the poll. Instantly messengers were despatched with hot haste to bring back the “poor wandering one.” But all in vain ; he had flown beyond their reach, and next day he woke up and found himself famous—or at least chosen—to his own bewilderment, and also no doubt to his own, and his conconstituent’s satisfaction.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1022, 12 January 1882, Page 3
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163Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1022, 12 January 1882, Page 3
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