DRYBREAD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 281, 19 June 1873, Page 6

DRYBREAD.

(From a Correspondent.)

As your correspondents from this (juarfcop appear to have exhausted $heij' stock of information, or from Other. ca uses have ceased to represent thi« district in your columns, I have taken the liberty of jumping Into their shoes, and will endeavor fvqm time to time to giye you a few of the leading matters of importance to thin district. The election fever is racing fiercely hova .it present, and js likely to do so fof j&g sftsfc we§k. It is seldpm that

anything occurs to disturb the even tenor of our ways in this particularly quiet quarter of the province, so that an election is too good a thing to let pass over too tamely. Mr. Shepherd is not to have the quiet walk over which, I beliove, he confidently expected. Mr. Hazlett, of Clyde, is in j the field against him, and is likely to i run him closely, if not to leave him in the minority. Mr. Shepherd addressed the electors here last night, and, I believe, the reception accorded to him was not exactly to his liking, at any rate the meeting, after listening patiently for about an hour, while the candidate trumpeted his own praises for the great benefits he had achieved for this district and the province at large, declined, although urgently requested to do so, to accord to him the vote of confidence which he modestly asserted in your columns a few weeks ago, ho was confident to roceive from the electors of Drybread when he chose to address thorn. As Drybread and Tinkers are his avowed strongholds, I think his chance of re-election is rather doubtful. Mr. Hazlett Las not yet paid us a visit, but I believe he will do so early noxt week. While on the subject of elections, and reading so much about the expense tho province is put to by the election, it is a wonder that the scale of allowance to returning officers and poll clerks should be so very liberal, the munificent sum of one guinea and half a guinea being tho amount allowed to each respectively — liberality scarcely to be credited when it is known that a laboring man only receives twelve shillings per day in this district. I suppose the honor of serving Grovernnient for one day ou^ht of itself to be sufficient remuneration. I hope the gentlemen appointed will try and think so. In miring matters everything appears to be going on smoothly and satisfactorily : water is getting more plentiful. Wo have no hard frosts to retard mining, aud all hands arc fully employed. It is now raining steadily, and every prospect of a continuance.