Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell: Tuesday, June 3, 1873.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 186, 3 June 1873, Page 4

Cromwell Argus, AND NORTHERN GOLD-FIELDS GAZETTE. Cromwell: Tuesday, June 3, 1873.

The electors of the Kawarau district are promised ample room for choice in the matter of a representative in the Previncial Council. Nothing is yet known as to the date of nomination; and as little ia known of the views of the candidates. Therefore it is hardly possible to speculate upon the chances of the different candidates, and hardly fair to offer an opinion of their respective merits. But it may bo justly prophesied that the district will present no such sorrowful front in the new Council as in the old. The electors will make it apparent that they have been taught wisdom by experience. They will choose, it may well be believed, a representative they will have no shame in acknowledging; one who will do them justice, and will himself command respect, in the House. Within the next four years, Cromwell, if decent attention to its interests be secured, is bound to make rapid advances in importance and standing. This is admitted on all sides. And the electors now have the power in their hands of ensuring, or of again delaying, those advances. But, while remembering this, they must at the same time guard against putting in a member who shall possess simply an aptitude to promote local interests. What the district has languished from in the past is the want of a member of intelligent, broad, sound ideas upon the questions of the day affecting the Province as a whole. The most efficient representative is not the man who is ever on the watch to grasp at a petty picking which he may term “ something for his (listri t,” hut who is without the mind or brain to take bis part in the discussion of broad Provincial questions,—the land question, education, and the like. Let the electors return a man—perhaps not necessarily who has studied these questions, but who possesses the ability, when the time comes, to think on them, and to argue on them, and to give his vote on them according to his made-up mind. Such a man will not only do honour to those who return him : ho will obtain for his district and for his constituents advantages and benefits, without any petty scheming or haphazml votingto please this way or that, such as a Hickey, or man of his stamp, would never obtain. At the present juncture, there seems a disposition on the part of educated, intelligent men to come forward and rescue our Provincial Council from the contempt into which it has fallen as an assembly, to | no small extent, of ignorance and unpriui cipled selfishness. Let the electors of this district, then, return a member who can take his place among these new men as among his fellows ; who can hold his own among them as a man of thinking power and reasoning ability. And believe us when we say that such a man is the one j needed to secure for the district the cor/; sideration its growing importance demands and is acknowledged to deserve.