THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 935, 26 November 1881, Page 2

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

[To the Editor of the Daily.] Sir,-We have three candidates before us ill South Wairarapa, aud occasionally one from the North. Ours are all B's, aud I am told they are beginning to sting. One of them says he is a working settler, but I think that is not sufficiently distinctive to warrant a claim to a seat in the House of Representatives. There are dozens of us who are old settlers—and working settlers—but we recognise that a good deal more is required to fit a man for bo important a place. Mr Bovb 1 friends would willingly do him a kindness, but I, and many_ others who wish him well, cannot join in Binding him to Parliament,

Mr Bunny comes with the old old story: "Iliave been there and still should go."He is not quite so merry as Le used to be, but he has still pleuty of chaf, But chaff won't fill the ballot-box this lima. The seat won't come tins time, not er«n with

the' ohain-hor«e from Masterton to give him a pull, Mr Bunny has hud a long spell of office, and many of us think the time has come to make a change, _ Mr Buchanan is the man for the settlers in the altered circumstances of the time. He is a rioh man, tut he has.been a ptor man, and knows what their wants are. He is a hard-working man, and Jias shown praotibal sympathy with his fellow Settlers on many occasions, "We have a great" deal of. work to get done, and he has enormous capacity for work, and what his \ hand finds to do he does with all his \ might. ' ' ■ t \ Such earnest natures are tho fiery pith, The compact nucleus round which systems grow; "■' ■ . Mass after mass becomes inspired \\M with, V' And whirls impregnate with the central flow. I am, Ac., ;■ A Working Settieb.