RUMOUR.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 683, 30 January 1883, Page 2

RUMOUR.

To the Editor. Sir, —Surely it is not true that our County Chairman has ignored local representation and pledged himself to support a candidate whoso every interest is centred in another part of Canterbury ? Bumour cays that not only the County Chairman, but one other member of the Council have pledged themselves to support ■ Mr J. L. Coster as the representative of Akaroa upon theLyttelton Harbor Board. Now Sir, it is

toatent to every one that Mr J. L. Coster holds one of Hie highest possible positions in two or three of fhejargest commercial companies in Zfealand, and that in Canterbury Lyllellon m the great shipping port,..or I inigbVeay the Jnlyone.of any importance, and that it hnsi ile fair share of representation. But. 5 it hS not, through it, holding the weroter position, the representative! of other places could do it no harm, gpm the principle of the old fable of the belly, but it we increase its power by electing men whose ovety interest v counter to ours, we -ot only give up *h«t the members, of Waonw«* Representatives fonght ;for, viz . distribution of representation, bnt we JSd «tf a leviathan that w.U amply kn oreewiJftiHKMft' own interest* If our civil right, are to be sacrificed.by fads or button boleing of ttuewrt. it n nSv time that .«he County Council was abolished, or that their -power.w».curtailed, especially in representation, for if tlTernmof iettne, those t>fthe County Council who have pledged themselves Stake the onus of not baring taken Se precaution to attain whether a local «i,™ld come forward or not. It v a wellknown fact that one gentleman wRo well niowu hands was in. unpledged members of tf» County Council a cbance of counter-acting this little game oflogr o lUng.-Your B ,etc, H npm