AN EXPLANATION.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2515, 9 March 1871, Page 2

AN EXPLANATION.

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Sin, —From a question put to Mr Reynolds at his meeting hold last evening at the North Dunedin Drdl Shed, it would appear that some report has got abroad to the effect that Mr Mason had not given his assistance to Mr Reynolds, but rather obstructed him, in the ac'ion he took during the session of 18!i5 for securing the whole of the City reserves. Mr Beynolds, in reply to the question, stated that he was very much surprised that auy q Ujld have forced spell an qrjoneous idea—the fact baing that but for Mr Mason’s energetic assistance, ho doubted

whether Mr Burns and himself would have succeeded in'carrying the resolution ; tnat he (Mr Reynolds) had the whole weight ot the Government against him, and that Mr Mason, who then represented an Auckland constituency, and had been a member of the House of Representatives of some years standing, exerted himself to the utmost in securing votes of members from the various Provinces, and his colleagues from Auckland in particular ; the effect of which was that, notwithstanding tho most strenuous opposition on the part of the Government, Mr Reynolds’s motion was carried by a majority of 12. I am, &c., An Elector Present. Dunedin, March 9.