ELECTION NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4036, 5 December 1881, Page 2

ELECTION NEWS.

Mr Brodie is expected to return to the Thames tbispTening.. The prospect! of this candidate for Parliamentary honors are bright, if what we hear be true. A resident on the goldfield fromjthe opening, Mr Brodie evinces the greatest interest, and is always ready to ad ranee the cause of progress. The days of begging for the. Thames,are over, and: it behove* us to have some one in the House who will be able to give Ministers a vote in return for the ready. If Captain Morris . is elected for Tauranga, which appears to be very probable, and we have Mr Sheehan for the Thames, -!such rfhien would leave no stone unturned until they secured us a fair and tquitable share of J the public money. The Thames people have to contribute to the interest yearly payable on our national debt, and it is only right and just we should have some of the money, for with rates, rents, and cost of living it is no joke to have to pay interest on money borrowed ostensibly for the use of the colony, but spent in reality in the favored districts of Otago, Canterbury, and other Southern places. All: the candidates for Coromandel and Tauranga expect to be elected. It is needless to say some of the number will be disappointed. Mr Vesey Stewart, i|t ' is stated, has pledged himself to' vote against the Government if elected. There will be a very keen eoutelt at Waipawa, between Messrs Ormond and Smith. Mr Sydney Johnston, the brother of the Postmaster-General has resigned in order to aid Mr Smith's candidature.,

It is stated that Mr Mackay's chances on Block 27 are increasing daily. MrCadman's friends and supporters arc confident of success.' 4 -^ - ■■■'<■->■ ■!f