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PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTION.

To the Editor,

Sir, —I was not a little amused at Mr Fish’s’ address to the electors on Tuesday night, I was anxious to see how he would try and excuse his “sudden conversion, and could nob fail to admire his cunningucss in ppssipg over so quietly a few of his more glaring inconsistencies. I will just give one instance of what 1 mean, bpt before doing so I may state that I have voted for Mr Fish on several occasions, and had, up to the time he began to change colors, a very high opinion of him as a public man. Some of your readers will no doubt remember that it was arranged by the leading citizens of Dunedin to give Mr Macandrew a banquet on his return from the Assembly, in recognition of the great services he had rendered to the Province of Otago. Mr Fish was of course at the banquet, and was no doubt anxious to make the speech of the evening. To make a telling speech, it is all the better for being based upon facts, but Mr Fish took about the strangest way to obtain the necessary information that I ever heard of. Your readers will, I am sure, hardly believe that Mr Fish was so void of all feeling of delicacy as to go to Mr Macandrew himself, and desire to be informed of the public measures ho was the moans of initiating. Mr Macandrew very naturally and; properly refused to give him the information, as it looked too much like sounding his own trumpet. Mr Fish went away, I have no doubt, a little crest-fallen, but what think you did he do? Well, he had the hardihood to call back again, till, I suppose, Mr Macandrew, to get rid of him, gave him the jottings of the more important mea sures, though, to his credit be it said, without auj remarks whatever. On these facts Mr Fish made a most elaborate speech, but colured them up so highly that I believe Mr Macandrew was almost seen to hearing his praises sounded so loud. A change came o’er the spirit of his dream, because, shortly after this, the election of Superintendent came off, and, strange to say, Mr Fish, to the amazement ©f everybody, was an out-and-out supporter of Mr Donald Reid. Now, Mr Macandrew had dons nothing in the meantime to justify this “ sudden conversion,” so Mr Fish’s own conduct clearly stamps him as a, thoroughly jnconaistenjb and 'unreliable - ' politician. Wte can respect a w, fejw.ey.fijf different his views may be from our own, so long as }ye know that he is sincere ; hut one who is continually changing and tacking about to catch every breeze of popular favor is do*

servedly held in light estimation by every right-thinking man. We have enough of political weather-cocks already without adding to the number.—l am, &c., An Elector.

Dunedin, March 26.

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Evening Star, Issue 3151, 26 March 1873, Page 2

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PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTION. Evening Star, Issue 3151, 26 March 1873, Page 2

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTION. Evening Star, Issue 3151, 26 March 1873, Page 2

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