OUR REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3048, 2 April 1881, Page 2

OUR REPRESENTATION IN PARLIAMENT.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Si a, —The warning you gave the electors lof Napier in the leading article of last I night's issue is well-timed, for I think all will agree in the advisability of selecting our future representatives before the eleventh hour renders selection hurried or I misplaced. lam only echoing the sentiments of the Liberal party in this constituency when I say that, however all classes may respect both Captain Russell and Mr Sutton 12 their private characters, a big majority of the electors are of opinion that this electorate might just as well have been without any representation in Parliament as to have had those two gentlemen sitting in the House for Napier. You yourself rightly enough stated that neither the one nor the other can point to a single parliamentary act with which they are identified by which this constituency ha 9 beenspeci?lly benefited. Such being tbe case, it is well that the electors should be reminded of the duty that will shortly devolve upon them of choosing their representatives. Now, Sir, I take it that this constituency has no need to go begging for a representative. There is no occasion to ask Sir George Grey to be kind enough to nominate some one for us to elect to Parliament. If time be given us we can choose somebody for ourselves; some one whose ideas on politics are not so much centered in the laches of the Native Department as in the welfare of this electorate : some one whose mind ia not rivetted on his failure to secure the Pakowhai plains for his friend and himself, and one who will not continually harp on what might have been as strive to secure the possible in the future. It would be well, if possible, to select some one in whose election there would be no heart-burning ; one who might fairly be said to represent the moderate men of both parties. It is not easy at this time to thiok of anyone who comes up to this standard, but the idea having been given birth to I trust it will live and be the means of directing public thought to this subject. Thanking you for calling attention to this important question,—l am, &c, An Elector. April 2, 1881.