A MEMBER FOR WAIPA WANTED. To the Editor of the Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 432, 10 April 1875, Page 2

A MEMBER FOR WAIPA WANTED. To the Editor of the Waikato Times.

Si 1 ', — [ fully expectel that during the week that has elapsed .since you called attention in the columns of the Times to -he vacancy in the Provincial t 'ounfil - now existing owing 1 to the member fo; the Wnipa District having left the colony — aome one of our settlers would be induced bj )iis friends to off.) 1 himself ns a candidate for the vacant seat. No v, Mr E litor, the Council is to meet on the 10th of next month, and is one of the Waikato seats to remain vacant? Smvlv not. There are plenty of good men who might be induced to stand and try to do their utmost for this much neglected part of the province — for as long as money is to be spent- in the province and loives and fishes are to 1)0 had, why should not this district have its share? Do try, Mr E litor, to use your infl ienee and get some one to cjme forward, for there is barely time to have the writ issued and a member elected before the Council meet. — Yours, &c. A Settler. Ngaruawahia, 9th April, 1875.

A story, which illustrates the sort of newspapers which flourish in the rur.tl districts, conies from South Australia. The day after a number of the candidates at the recent election had addressed the free and independent, the load newspiper cimeout with a leading article complaining of wearisome reiteration of the various speeches, and thp ignorance or unconcern of the speakers about local topics, which they scarcely deigned to mention. One of the unfortunates thus attacked complained to the editor of the unf.iiniPS-> of the article, " for," said he. " I devoted twenty-five minutes entirely to local matters." " Well, lam vrry sorry," said the leader aivl exponent of public opinion, " but the fact is our staff is very small, and tho article had to be set up before the meeting took place. It was a little hard upon you, but you must admit that I treated every one alike." The origin of the word " buncombe," so often discussed, is thuf siren bv t'lo Bi> 4 ton <j>rre->pon'lenb of a contemporary : — "'lht-re is no sm-h word as 'bunkum 'in use in America. Many years ago tho menber for the country of Buncombe, N rih Ci'O i"a, being <««l'p(l to or !er for spanking a^ide of 111 1 p HU^JfCI," I «'>' not. t-ilkin-z to t'ns llouif, I n> n rulk njj to JJurK'oiiibp. ' Thus originated the phrase, ' tnlkiiig to Biincoinbe, ' wliifh is applx d t> mere mi eApt.wnhjiti or d m >a tcuii q eppcechi'H, made without respect to tao su'jeot • t »l. . „^.,,«,(,«,, u .n.li-nft.."