MB. AICKEN'S REJECTION.
I meant to have referred to this subject in last week's issue, but was unable to do so from a pressure of other matter. Mr Aicken's rejection by ths City Council, emphasised as it was by a .signal defeat at the election by the&ratepayers, must have taught him that "vaulting ambition, which .o'er-leaps itself," often lnnds a candidate on the other sida of the hed-ge, The worthy gentleman's aspirations for a seat ir^the House of Representatives, with a*view to a Ministerial portfolio, are- not likely to be realised quite so' soon as he anticipated. People who profess 11 be behind the scenes in election matters say his defeat in the Harbour Board election was mafnly due to his mistaken sympathy with the Meat Freezing Company, and the strenuous exertions he made t# secure for thiln a gigantic monopoly of the foreshore. If adversity is the school of wisdom, Mr^Aicken will not have suffered in vain. , ■ "•» . -.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 3
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