THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2497, 16 February 1871, Page 2

THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

To the Editor of the Evening Slav. Sip.—''flie working men of Dunedin arc earnestly iplicitcd )>y a placard piililisjfcd yesterday pfi vope for Mr £)onaj.d a« Superintendent, Said pla ard purporting tq eipaualp from the work'ng men of Dunedin, WouKl thp £i geijtliiincn J> "\vliq have signetl t]re pia inform the working community what class of working tap' l ti;ey pdlude to’v Do they mean (hat c'a-s of workingmen who prowl about all large cities, ready at election limes to say anything or do anything to help a party for a pint of Colonial ? or that other

very useful class of men who, vulture-like, live ou their wives’ industry, and who, owl* like, are never to be seen outside but at some unseemly hour, carrying a pot of condensed poison, wrung from the hard earnings of a wash-tub ? Or, sir, do they mean that class of workers—Nature’s nobility—who, by tlieir industry, perseverance, frugality, and temperance, have made a home for themselves and families in Otago ? If they mean the last class of working men, allow ns to inform those gentlemen that they have a mind of their own, and are not to be seduced by such election clap-trap, nor are they either to be led by the nose by that consistent (?) politician and patriot who signs “Junr. at the cud of all his effusions. We are united, and fully alive to our own interests not to know who to vote for ; am 1 , if you can keep a secret, we are all Macau* drewites to a man. We are, &c., Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen. Dunedin, Feb. 16, 1871.