The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 25 October 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1890.

Acouiapfpiiths ngq tlje vplatjlo vampires pf tiie Wsiwapa eleptorate were overwhelmed wit!) >' hijrriljio dread. It was rumoured that no . candidate would como forward to contest the scat with Mr W. 0. liuchannn, and consequently strenupus efforts wore made by them to ssoiU'fl §on)e opposition of some kind or other,. Ate A >yhile success s, rewarded their efforts, and Ml' Hoijry Bunny was persuaded to announce tlmtrho would .giye battle to his old '• opponeut. Yet even Mr Bunny '> came forward, wo believe, with some reluctance, because after the last election Jie pledged himself not to !, stand agiun/and lie poijld notypry well do so on this, the' first occasion M ps ojfeje!}, wjtliout forswearing 'i himself. Pfttfiap $ mjoinent j lie yielde/1 to the yolatile yaitypipps, assisted an they )y#'e jjy yejy i, powerful Wellington influence. Nino-tenths of the buttles foutjht on the floor of the House of liepresentatives are fights of town versus cayptry, and Mr Henry Bunny is wanted .oji t})§ town side. He is not bwfc'Mw ! 8 civi(i to tho apd jthe'fity to which lie bfilppgs ).l Well/neioji. If' lie should happen to I)9l'ewned to the Assembly, Wellington will gain a fourth member,—at the oxpctiae of ; the Wairarapa, no doubt, but this the Wellington people do not mind, A J papei' is living , heaven ana to gflji Mr Bunny ; returned to Parliament i puft, the almost indecent puif,' tije I puff direct and the puff anonymous have been saturating the columns of 1 this jpjirnal, and no doubt have j encouraged Mr J?u<j.ny to take the f step he has done,'poiitraryibyigh it f may be to his own bettor judgment s and instinct. But though" 'the: 1 ■vampires, with the aid of Wellington, have caught 11/fif prey it does not appear th 4 th,ey are slie#«d' ,?yen n; nqjy; they have secured a Vi but tjjoy yyant more blood, oiid there &| 'is a good 8«,]( Of talk njpt tip expediency of nominating # ////$ sj candidate. Even some of Mr Bunny's 111 supporters advocate bringing forward j® another man, either because tliey h

aie lacking confidence; iii their chiefs cußiiceg. or simply tlioy ****** victim, oi* as a 'they haye mercenary motives.' Tliero is also in this, as in other-electorates, a section of tlie public always eager to ton any fume and who consider that tup contest would be intensified by tue advent of a third man,' This view is perhaps a mistake, as a third candidate would weaken Mr Bunny's pfospeofa.of siiccesa, which pro' not quite so brilliant as the. Wellington papers make them out to be, and make things easier for Mr Buchanan. It has been asserted that' the now boundaries of the electorate toll .iu Mr Bunny's favor, but well informed people contend to the contrary', and hold that the north-east territory recently added, and including the greater portion oftho Whareaaia and Taueru districts, will afford very material support to Mr Buolianan, We ourselves are in a pretty good position to judge how'this section of the electorate is likely to vote, and we feel certain that Mr Henry Bunny will fare badly iu it, and that the Wellington influence on which he relies will not help him in this quarter.. It would be criwl to Mr Bunny, under these oircumstaiices to put forivard a third candidate, hut we believo that before tliat can'didate can be nominated ■; he has to be caught. We doubt "whether .the volatile vampires have got hold of a raaii yet who is willing' to fecoma victim No 2, .and? that they are slightly misleading .' the public by sundry rumours that, have been circulated of late, As yet there is no third candidate to tho fore, still it maybe possible to fiiid one before nomination day if the vampires hunt well amongst the daft people, of the district,' The contest as it stands is a fairly oven one I Mr Henry Bunny may win by a fluke, for few elections are absolute certainties, but from all the indications which havo reached us, we gather that Mr Buchanan's majority will bo larger on this occasion tbau it was three years ago, and that lie does not need the , kindly aid of the volatile vampires to , augment it by the introduction of a third candidate.