THE ROSLYN ELECTION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2676, 14 September 1871, Page 2

THE ROSLYN ELECTION.

To the Editor. Sm, —What about the Southern League? Wherein does their power lie ? Will the intelligent electors of Otago he led blindly hy

clique, call them by whatever name you may ? No. The eletors for the Roslyn district have clearly demonstrated this by their votes in the present election—they have given an expression of opinion that mast surety open the eyes of that self-styled body, calling themselves “ The Southern League.” At all e» r vnts, if they are so blinded, the general public are not. The elect on of Mr McGlashan by so very large a majority is a great defeat to that party self-styling themselves “liberals.” In what does their liberality consist ? If it is by unmeasured abuse of those who do not see or act as they do, then they are liberals—nay, 'profuse in liberality. If it is by acting a part that has hermetically closed the ccintry to bona fide settlement then they are liberal! It it is by opposing, the scheme of the General Government in formation of railways and public works, then they are liberals. But again, what does the intelligence of the community say ? just this, we will have no more of you ; your liberality is a sham and a delusion ; wi neis the actions of the members of the Provincial Council in their last session. How about the Honorarium? What abut the waste of lime, paper, and “gas” in their thirty-live days’ session ; and what comes out of it? Echo answers, “Nothing but waste of Provincial moneys.” Why the anxiety and haste of all the members of the Executive to be off to Wellington ? Is it mercenary motives, or is it because they are “true patriots”? Can they or will they tell us that they arc so imbued with the necessity of keeping down expenditure, that they will draw no pay out of the Provincial chest during their abscence in Wellington ? No, no ; they act well their part in endeavoring to hocus the electors of Otago ; but their day has now gone by, as we have said. The Roslyn election has shown that this political organisation have lost their power—power most detrimental to the best interests of Otago and the Colony at lar e a. A motto should be adopted by them from henceforth, and it would be appropriate to a party dt • funct by memento mori I am, &c., No Humbug.