MR. MAC ANDREW’S ADDRESS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2461, 5 January 1871, Page 2

MR. MAC ANDREW’S ADDRESS.

To the Editor of the Ecenlmj Star. Sir,- I was much gratified with the contents of Mr Maeandrew’s address in your late publication, and the explanation th re given is in exact accord with my oan ideas of the political tenor of the late Provincial 'Council of Otago. 1 am supposed that any man should have had the strength to withstand, in such a trying position as Mr Ma> audrew has gone through; for the opposition has not been through any distinct principles of policy, direct or understood, or through

any other known principles of integrity, but purely and simply obstructive and destructive—obstructive to the Superintendent’s known principles of progressive advancement for the permanent welfare of the Province, and destructive as regards the social and domestic prosperity of the whole community. Sorely the object of the opposition needs no spiritual medium to be seen through. Is it not personal antipathy to the Superintendent for his liberal ideas in common '! and, if I mistake not, there are more than one of his present bitterest enemies that have been the needy recipients of his former bounty, in the shape of land, cattle, seeds, implements, &c., &c. Sir. how true the old adage maybe applied in this case—“ Set a beggar on horseback ’ —yo i know the rest; and again being put to Libor in this vineyard, and finding the fruit agreeable, they conspire to kill and take possession, for doubtless their object is that the agricultural interest mly reign supreme in Otago. But save us from their tender mercies. Let us all give the subject a deep and serious consideration before it is too late : and may the issue show a respectable class of men ami an improved state cf things. I am, &c., J. E. A. Dunedin, January 3.