TIPS ON THE "WAIPA CUP."

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1460, 10 November 1881, Page 3

TIPS ON THE " WAIPA CUP."

"TURHTE " sends thi> followiny :- There are four entries fur this gieat e\ enf, to be run foreaily in Drcembei, and I intend, your leave, sir, to "tint them out" pro bow) publico. Fir ton the Hat of enlri'S comes Williiim Jackson, otherwise known as the " M-ijah.'' Tins candid tte once served tho publio hefoie In the House he waf distinguish^'! as .1 " h,u kBtaira button-holer; ' a kind <>f under lackey to the paity to whom he ir.ive hi-, unreasoning suop.irt In debate, the greatest muff, incapable of cnteitaluini,any broad question in his bucolic btairt, yet full of '•nersjy and pliu k ; the beau ideal of a henchman, but utterly incapable of command Hi*- chances of sucfeH-* may be eon<-idpjed snirill. Next on the lint poraoi E. G Mc.Minu, wln>, likp the proceditif?, h.is mm ved the electors bpf(>ie, and, like him, was n<>t, distinguished by any ho.ivon born (rift His idean are striiig'ht-laced aud otifP ; no Bt.ite-m.m-like "views can ever pnter hi- cast-iron cranium, and, worsf of all, perfidy to his party w.is the crowning act wf his political career. A beriou* crime, and one not easily forgivi n. Hi- chances of succesmay be considered nil Next comes F. A. Whitaker, the late member. Suave and slippery, pliant and politic, yer withal a nnin of steiling sense, and possessed of both tact arid ifiother wit His enreer in the House, thnuirh not perhaps brilliant, devt loped come stare^nsanlike qualities, and a mind capable of grasping in a comprchen-ive manner all the salient points of any diffii nit quc-tion He bhould be " there 01 theie.ibout." Ltibt of ail comes " the dark h.iise," W. Johns, the " Grey "or " Litieial " candidate, who, though he has not declared himself, i^ pronounced on uood nuthority to be "the coming man." Should Mr Johns come forwaid, he will ho, as Napier said of Marmont, "anwntobe feared." He is ne»v to politics, a fiery enthusiast, whose zeal sometimes outruns his discretion. It is clear that *ome shreds of old Grey's mantta has already fallen upon him. A clear reasoner, and a clever rhymer diligent, devoted, dogmatic, he will, or I am mistaken, be " well up at the fiui-h " should he start in the race. To wind up, let me eive you my tip : " Even on Whitaker against the field, or 10 to 1 on Whitaker and Johns against the rest of the field. '