The Evening Star. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 248, 25 October 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1870.

W_ have no doubt that it will be a source of satisfaction to learn that the qucestio vexata as to Mr. Gillies' candidature is set at rest by his consent given this morning to the deputation of requisitiouists. Every one that knows the public career or private character of Mr. Gillies will give him credit for the sincerity of his expressions of regret in that he should seem to have been brought out in opposition to Mr. Williamson. Ajid we believe that ib is only in deference to the expression of a public call, which no public man would be warranted in disregarding, that he has consented to become a candidate before the constituency of City , We.._. The fact tjtwt the .requisition was numerously signed before Mr. Williamson had signified his intention of appealing to the electors, and when it was confidently and generally believed in the city that this gentleman hud retired from public life-, has removed all grounds of delicacy on the p..rt of the supporters of Mr. Gillie.-;. The Superintendent having been first in the field, could not in fairness to supporters have refused to concede to their wishes; and from the requisition which we have seen there, cannot be a doubt as to the result of his candidature. As will be seen from anoiher column, Mr. Gillies had given grounds for the rumour that he would not be a candidate; and his expressed reluctance at being brought out in opposition to Mr. Williamson was such as to induce one of his osvn most strenuous supporters to believe that nothing would overcome that reluctance, and so to inform a morning contemporary. ill doubts having now been removed, we trust that the friends and supporters of the Superintendent, not in a spirit of opposition to any one, but with a sole desire for the good of the city, the province, and the country, will use their every effort to return Mr. Gillies as representative for Auckland City West.