PORT CHALMERS.
To the Editor. Sir,—A number of practical jokers having determined to bring forward a publican as Mayor of Port Chalmers, have so far deluded the public as to persuade many of our leading citizens to promise their support to the said candidate, a,ud this in a small community where six religious bodies exist—viz., Church of England, Roman Catholic, Plymouth Brethren, Wesleyan, Congregational, and Free Church of Scotland, beside a branch of the Sons of Temperance—and yet, with all this array, there is a great chance of the publican being elected unless those bodies throw off their apathy. Publicans may be a necessary evil; but to place one as chief magistrate of a town—especially a man who resides next door to the Comt-house, and who will have to occupy the bench to try the man in the morning for being drunk on the drink sold the night before—seems to me a disgrace every sane man should his face against. By inserting the above, and, if space permits, commenting on it, you will oblige Yours, &c., Com mom Semse. July 20, 1871,
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2628, 20 July 1871, Page 3
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182PORT CHALMERS. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2628, 20 July 1871, Page 3
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