MR HALLENSTEIN’S RESIGNATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3257, 29 July 1873, Page 3

MR HALLENSTEIN’S RESIGNATION.

Speaking at a municipal meeting at Queenstown, on Wednesday last, Mr Wallenstein mentioned that his resignation of his seat in the House of Representatives was occasioned by the fact that he found it too great a tax on his time to attend both the Provincial Council and Assembly ; and finding he must give up one of them, he elected to hold his place in the Council in preference to the Assembly, for the reason that he thought the district would derive a greater *nd more direct benefit by his pr.-scnce in the Council. He had intended resigning six weeks ago, and had so telegraphed his intention to Wellington, but at the urgent solicitation of influential men there—among others were members of the present Ministry—he bad been requested not to resign this session, as, if he did so, Otago would lose one of its best members. This, coming from a Ministry whom he had last year partly opposed, could but be taken as complimentary to their member. Since then most important private business affairs compelled him with regret to resign. Commenting upon the resignation, the Mail remarks“ *ot only in his relations between bimself and his constituency has Mr Wallenstein sacrificed the confidence placed in him, but he has also sacrificed, to a great extent, the material interests of the district, and the labors of the various Mining Associations at a very critical period. Me shall be judged by his own words again. He say* he was asked by members of both sides of the Assembly nor. to resign, and yet he does so. His services were therefore important to the district, for as ho held so high a position as to be so esteemed by both parties, he was capable of doing a greater good, and especially in passing a good mining measure, in which the element of local self -government could so easily have bpen incorporated. The Mining Associations took great pains with Mr I Hallenstein, and coached him well up. They

are ill-rewarded for their pains, and the logs to the district through want of aid in this one item alone may be very great—for no one denies that a good goldfields measure is much required.”