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♦ INANGAHUA ELECTION.
TU THEE HBDITUR OF THEE TIMBS. Sur, — Will cc 'blige roe by firidin* room ia your valuabl' papur for theese feu lines. I never had. much larnin.', &a I had to go to Bal to work won I was a smal boy, so you'll Bouse me for 'trudin'. I wish, howsomeyer, to tell all thee Gutten Jackß down the oray Vall'y 'bout we Cuttens up here. ' - Now, Sar, it 'peert that there's 2 or 3 men gon' down from up here, an' they ar' tellin' lie* 'bout we. "Tellin' *aye them that we ar' all goin' to vote for Maister Shaw, an' that we 'aye thrawd off 'pon Maister Wakefield." Now, cumrades, I tell'e wat tez— tez lies, we ante don' no such thing, we're all Wakefield men to. the- backbone, an', vote- fur'n. we will, 'qfcuae we think hee's tbe best man, an' dp naw wat belong to Bals - mor'en the other one do — an' is able to splain wat he do naw. N ow, cumrades, ef you! do eer eneybody say .that we 'aye tura'd from Maister Wakefield, you jest ax thuin ef they do naw Zin or no 7 Or ef they do naw wat. a Kittey-bas ez ? iVn' tell them to go an' pick uh addle burra, an' see if they can-find eney prills in un ; and ef they caan!t.aasur,thiy question^ tell, them to put on uh Swan-skin dickey an' uh At-cap, an 1 go to the sump-hbuae for uh snojff, uh candell, an' go d/>wn a' see fit shee's gone fork or no, Decase we ahall Btick to Maiater Waketi»ld like; Saint Ann's clay, an', no mistake 'brtut.et. ,Kow, cumrades, mtnd thelM of Mdy," ey'ry man to his pick ;. an' gad,' and jBhowl; plan out your halls well, aft' bore thorn like i Outten, with a good- set of buyers, an'- then chargen well, floor the tampmg, and heel toar.fußt-rafce.; . '; ; ' • - '■" 'An' doan't,ee forgit our, pujd motto ■of "Fifteen Balls." - ■ .. ' > - . . Maistev Heditor, I wish c well. — Yours ever, , • •, ; r One and All. Black's Point, 28tlv April, 1883.
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Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1265, 30 April 1883, Page 2
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345Original Correspondence. Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1265, 30 April 1883, Page 2
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