THE CROMWELL MEETING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 773, 9 February 1877, Page 2

THE CROMWELL MEETING.

The following correspondence has been placed in our hands by Mr Pyke, for publication : [Tei.ECRAM,] Cromwell, Feb. Bth, 10,33 a.m. To Vincent Pyke, Esq., M.H.R., ’ Clyde. A meeting has been called for to-night at Cromwell, to review the acts of last Parliamentary Session, and I am asked to invito your attendance. D. A. J olly, Mayor. • [Reply.] , Clyde, Bth'February. , ToD. A. Jolly, Esq., J.P., Mayor, , Cromwell. Sly dear Mr Mayor, I I must confess to a feeling of surprise , at the contents of your telegram of present date. I have now been almost continuously j in my Electoral District since the sth Do- . cembor last, and during the larger portion of that time I have been resident in Cromwell. I have held several meetings in ' various parts of the district, and have received votes of entire confidence in every ; instance. But it has never been hinted to mo that my constituents at Cromwell desired me to convene a meeting there ; nor have I ever heard a single murmur of dissatisfaction at my conduct during the last Parliamentary Session. It is, therefore, I somewhat strange that just at the present juncture - when the minds of the residents on Cromwell are unduly excited in regard to [ ° the question of the future “ County Town”— a meeting should be called to review the Acts of the last Parliamentary Session, There is no apparent connection between the two subjects ; but it is transparently obvious that the strange imnatienco displayed on the “ County Town” question has prompted the action now taken. 1 If the mooting has not boon convened for the latent purpose of punishing the roprel sentativo of the Dunstan Electoral District k because of his vote on the “ County Town ” business, it, at any rate, bears that appearI ance. To say the least, such a meeting now 1 is injudicious, and the object of the meeting s is open to grave suspicion. I decline, therer fore, to ho a party to such a dubious trans- ‘ action ; nor do I intend to hold any further 1 political meetings until another Session nas I intervened. I have asked for, and received B the approval ot the largest, the most impor- ’ taut, and the most influential portion of the c Northern Division, at Bannockburn, and .1 with their verdict lam content. 0 I have to request that you will be good 1 enough to read this letter to the meeting. , 1 am, t My dear Mr Mayor, r Your obedient Servant, Vincent Pyke,