THE ELECTIONS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 144, 30 May 1884, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS.

MR. GANNON AT THE WAIROA. [from our own correspondent.] Wairoa, May 30. Mr. Gannon addresses the electors here to-night. Public feeling is undergoing very favorable change with respect to his candidature, and undoubtedly he will receive large support here.

[Per Press Association.] Wellington, May 30. The writ for the Ashburton seat will not be issued until the meeting of Parliament. Dunedin, May 30. Mr. McDonald addressed his constituents at Milton last night, and received a vote of confidence. Mr. Locke informed us this morning that rain or no rain he was determined to start through to Wairoa to day. If so he will reach there on Sunday, and will deliver his address on Monday night, On Tuesday he will start for Mohaka, and return by Frasertown. Mr. Rees returned from the Coast in the Rosina last night, therefore we expect he will follow up Mr. Locke at Wairoa almost immediately. Mr. Sheehan, who has been busying himself in Maori affairs up here during the past week, will leave for South to night. Referring to the Press neglecting to report Mr. Rees’ meeting at Ormond our contemporary says : —“ Our reporter was the only one in Gisborne who appeared at all anxious to proceed there, and consequently the ’busses did not go out.” In reply to that we might just mention for the information of our contemporary that we were as anxious as they were to have Mr. Rees’ speech reported, and it a vehicle had gone out our reporter would have been one of its occupants. We might also add that we were very doubtful all along as to whether a meeting was really going to be held or that the whole thing was a hoax. The very idea of its not being advertised and made public was sufficient to leave that impression on our minds. Speaking of Mr. Rees the says : — Mr. W. L. Rees, the astute Gisborne lawyer, and who is once more a candidate for Parliamentary honors, this time in the interests of his friends and neighbours, evidencly concurs with the axiom that revenge is a morsel that can be eaten cold. True io his promise in City East some years ago, on the occasion of Sir Julius showing the white feather, when Mr. Rees challenged him to a pa’ric test of his popularity—that wherever Sir Julius Vogel appeared in the Colony, there he would be to contest his election. Mr. Rees is now fulfilling his threat in going, hit or miss, for the East Coast seat. The Rees-on of all the little tea-fights is now apparent.