The dull, dead, silly the season, whon nothsiiLY shasox. iugcanbesentalong the press wires but tho dimensions ot a big gooseberry or the size of n giant pumpkin has not yet nrri ved, but it is being discounted. Yesterday the nows was flushed from Masterton to Wellington that the Hon. W. P. Reeves is to bo requisitioned to contest theWairarapaseat witliMißuchananat tho next general election. Anything more ridiculous thanaskingMrßeeves, twelvemonths boforo an election, to pledgo himself to stand for the Wairarapa or any other constituency, it is impossible to conceive. However, we do know some notoriety loving liberals in the constituency who would ask Mi Reeves, Mr Scddou, Mr Gladstone, or even Lord Salisbury to appear as candidates if they thought that they could thereby bring themselves into prominence.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5183, 16 November 1895, Page 2
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