The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1887. NEW ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2615, 4 June 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1887. NEW ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.

In the course of a day or two, if all goes well, our M.H.R.'s will be released from their legislative duties and will return with unwonted ardor to their constituencies. Canvassing direot and indirect will necessarily occupy their attention for some time to come but one little difficulty will have to be contended with. A commission is about to adjust new electoral districts, ai)d no one exactly knows how far his own particular pet district will be affected by the adjustments of new boundaries. In the meantime candidates will be working in the dark. Brown will possibly be courting some of Jones' constituents, and Robinson will be neglecting, possibly, some important district whioh, when too late, he will be surprised to find is taoked on to his own electorate, The question in this district is how far wairarapa North and South 'will

bo altered by the Commission. Wairarapa South is .numerically weak, and'will have to take a small rib from some adjoining electorate, It cannot well take it from the Hufct, because the latter electorate is even weaker than Wairarapa South and it is probable therefore, that Gladstone will be pitchforked out of Wairarapa North, to make up a quota in Wairarapa South.. Then comes the i question whether a new bush electorate is'likely to cluster round Woodville, embracing Pahiatila and Mr McCardle. The chalices would appear to be against this latter arrangement, because if Wairarapa North is bled for the benefit of the southern electorate it will have no surplus margin available to assist in constituting a bush electorate. No doubt tho commission will disturb' existing boundaries as little as possible, and, if so, tho Waingawa river will probably continue tobe the dividing line between the two Wairarapa electorates. Three months will probably elapse bofoi'e the coming election can take place. The commission will, it is expected, require two months for their labors, and a third one, will be indispensable for making up atid printing electoral rolls.