Wellington businessman William Levin resigned due to ill-health.
[1] He was replaced by Dr Alfred Newman.
[2] One of the losing candidates, Henry Bunny had represented the Wairarapa electorate from 1865 to 1881.
[3] Thomas Dwan did not impress one reporter at the opening meeting of the campaign, saying that he did not give his usual "political mountebank" speech but a deadly dull one, and that he showed he knew as much about the country districts as a "Hindoo does about skating".
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