MR BUCHANAN AND MR ORMOND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3253, 5 December 1881, Page 3

MR BUCHANAN AND MR ORMOND.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir, —Mr Buchanan denies any agreement between himself and Mr Ormond on a political basis. If that be the case how is it that his address is so ambiguous ? In that he says, " Recent political events must, I think, have served to point unmistakably to the necessity in this community of some base for united and concerted action being taken by its members on leading questions." What, I would like to know, is how united and concerted action on political matters can take place without an understanding between those who are to take the united and concerted action alluded to. No wonder Mr Buchanan can say " from what he now knows there is no difficulty in the way of himself and Mr Ormond working together," but why does he seek at one and the same time to affirm and deny this "concerted action." He said at the Theatre the other evening that not a word on the subject had passed between him and Mr Ormond, and yet Mr Ormond himself says that Mr Buchanan voluntarily told him of his inability to see any reason in the way of their working together.—l am, &c, The Pcketaftj Cutting. December 5,1881.