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Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1204, 2 December 1873, Page 2

[advertisement.] WARE WORTH ELECTION. "H (To the Editor of the Evening Star ) Sin,—When in order to promote local representation the northern division was divided into several elector.il districts the settlers of this neighbourhood fondly hoped that they would be permitted to return a member from among themselves in whom they had confi dence, and who they believed would take a greater interest in repiesenting the district and having its wants attended to than he would in maintaining any party or clique in power in the Council. It seems, however that such hopes were fallacious, and that a steamer has abready been chartered to bring sufficient voters to Mahurangi Heads on the polling day to ensure the return of the candidate in whom a very large majority of the resident electors have no confidence. Now neither I, nor I believe any other settler would object to any property-holder who hay a real interest in the district exercising his undoubted right of voting for the man he considers best qualified to represent it, but those are not the men in the hahit of coming forward on such occasions. They known that in cases like the present, where the candidates are both local men, the settler among whom they live must be far better judges of their respective merits than they could possibly be and do not interfere. What we object to is being deluged with a swarm of persons placed upon the roll for party purposes who have only nominal qualifications, or no qualifications|at all, and have been put upon the roll for the purpose of thwaiting the wishes of the settlers when they arc opposed to those of the party by which those independent electors are employed. The settlers here will not soon forget what occurred at Waiwera at the last contested election for E.odney, when a choice band of such electors, aided by a select corps of personators, managed to reverse the decision of the real electors of the district. It seems as if a similar attempt is to be made on the present occasion, and I now call upon the resident settlers to distrust the man who will employ such means and will not leave the epiestion to his fellow settlers to decide. And I also call upon the absent property holder to abstain from voting, and leave the country electors who must necessarily be better acquainted with the characters and abilities of the candidates, to select their representative;—l am, &c, An Elector. W rarkworth, Nov. 28th, 1873.