TOWN TALK.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 225, 24 November 1893, Page 5

TOWN TALK.

FROM OUR AUCKLAND CORRESPONDENT.]

The PollardsOpera Company have been and gone again to the lasting regret of the boys and we have now the ever welcome Bland Holt and wife with their high toned actors of the —what! Sell my honour, No nevar-r-re, type. Bland Holt has always been lavish in scenery,dresses and otheraccessories, but in a 4 Sailors’ Knot ’ he has excelled all previous efforts. Crowded houses have rewarded his enterprise. Sixpenny pops. —John Fuller has really no place wherein to lay his head. The owner, Mr Abbott, being envious of the success scored by the popular tenor wanted to squeeze half the profits out of him and failing that decided to run the pops himself. IVtr Fuller secured for one night the St. James’ Hall which was filled to overflowing last Wednesday evening while the City Hall run by Mr Abbott was a miserable frost. Mr Abbott has discovered that there is only one John Fuller, while John Fuller has discovered that there is only one City Hall, his latest announcement being that St. James is engaged for electioneering and his next concert will be held at the Choral Hall., City and Suburbs arc at present steeped to the lips in electioneering, with such a number of candidates for City it is impossibleto spot the probable victors. The Liberal ass is sporting Grey, Thompson and Napier. The latter candidate is an especially bitter pill and although he is tunrning political double somersaults, flip flaps etc., for the special edification of the workin’ man, I doubt if he will find a place. The NationalAss is running Button and Crowther and may manage to get in one of the two. That conceited little missing word Shera considers himself as good as elected, he imagines they could never leave him out. so he goes about begging the people to send down two good men along with him. What a shock he is likely to get. Tudehope, the Trades and . Labour candidate is getting a large support and has a strong ladies Committee, his chances seem good. N© one will be cbe least bit surprised if Sir George fails to find a place. There is a strong feeling that he should retire and it is to be hoped that he will do so as a failure would probably kill the old man.

The tip for Eden is Mitchelson and Niccol pretty close, the former to wiD and Dargaville a bad third. The ladies wont have the latter at any price and his attempt to form a ladies’ committee was a ghastly failure. Rumour has it that the Liberal Ass wanted wanted Dargaville to retire, but he isn’t built that way. The Liberal cause did you say ? The Liberal cause be jiggerd.

We shall have a real high time in town next Tuesday. If it happens to he a dry day the prohibitionists will go down to a man. In any case there will be weeping and mailing at the finish and the fat man wifi again get badly beaten. The Free and Independent will strip off his coat, spit on his hands, hitch up his unmentionables and —drink beer in the interest of his favourite candidate.