[ADVERTISEMENT]. THE ELECTIONS.
ru the uniToii. iSlli,-'-l thici that a, report has been persistently circulated that Mr Allen \yent Hniiiu to try :iud get u sent in thu Uritiwh House uf Commons, and having been beaten there, is now seeking a seat iu our House of Representatives. The facts uro that when a vacancy occurred in the representation of Stoke-on-Trent last summer, while Mr Allen was out here, ho received a cable, asking him to stand. He declined to do so, and nave the same reply to two subsequent cable?. Notwithstanding this, his friends persisted in nominating liiin, with the result that he was defeated. He expressed to me at the time his annoyance at being thuti placed ill a false position _i» roferenco to his already expressed intention of seeking a seat in the New Zealand Parliament.—lain, Sir, yours faithfully, UmvAitu Y. Cox, Karangahako, Nov. 31, ISflO.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2865, 22 November 1890, Page 2
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148[ADVERTISEMENT]. THE ELECTIONS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2865, 22 November 1890, Page 2
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