THE CANDIDATES FOX WAIPAWA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3197, 27 September 1881, Page 2

THE CANDIDATES FOX WAIPAWA.

LTo the Editor of the DaIK? Tele#2AFH.l Sib,—l read with a paragraph in your paper purporting to be from a Woodville correspondent, and referring to the candidature of Messrs Johnston and Smith, and commencing "We are all laughing up here." lam inclined to believe that your correspoondent is doing anything but laughing, and will be still lesa inclined to laugh when the result of the poll is declared. I wonder now if that Woodville correspondent himself intends to be a candidate at the forthcoming election, and if he has large properties at Hastings, Wallingford, and Woodville. I quite asrree with him that what we want is the Napier—Masterton line of railway, but why should not Mr Johnston be as anxious to forward that line as Mr Ormond ? They both have large properties here, a fact which I do not suppose either of them has lost sight of ia their eagerness to confer lenefite on the poor people in the bush whom they have so much affection for just before an election. The Woodville people and other bush settlers cannot lose sight of the fact that, while Messrs Ormond and apparently, been oblivious of their existence since the last election, Mr W. 0. Smith as a member of the County Council, bas been extremely energetic in obtaining grants of money for the purpose of road making, bridge building, &c, in these otherwise neglected localities. In working in the interests of the Bush Settlements Mr Smith has evidently not been actuated by selfish motives, as I believe he has no large property the value of which would be increased by such expenditure.—l am, &c., Another Woodvillian. September 27, 1881.