CITY ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 3478, 16 April 1874, Page 2

CITY ELECTION.

To the Editor. Sir,-—! think it well that the electors of Dunedin should know exactly the views of the two candidates, viz., Messrs Barton and Wales, on the Water Bill proposed to be brought before the Assembly at its next sifctmg, and I have therefore pleasure in statins that at a meeting of the friends of Mr Wales last night, i he, in a most emphatic manner. “Ssurpd tfiem.that he wpuld oppose and vote SUch BiUas was proposed % the Water Company, considering that it had already too great a monopoly. I have fw m r^? n to believe, from inquiries made, that Mr Wales would support a Bill to enable the Corporation to at once proceed with works of its own, if the Water Company will not agree to dispose of the works to the Corporation at something like a fair and reasonfw , Su< ? h beiu 8 the case » 1 am gl»d that Mr Wales has come forward, as in him the working men can recognize one of themselves, whose sympathies are with them, and who can be of g eat service to them in the Assembly in many ways. The merchants ef Dunedin can in him also secure a member who has no personal interests to serve and who can take a business-like and common-sense view of matters brought before Parliament. Let there then be a determined and united effort made on his behalf by the working-men and the mercantile community, and the head of the poll will be the grand result. Let Rbeseen that a really good and thorough businessman even although not a brilliant orator can be appreciated by a Dunedin const!Co7al B6rViCeS ar6 P laced at I arfi a warm friend of Mr Barton’s • but as a rule, prefer, when the right stamp of man can be got, another than a lawyer torepresent us m Parliament; and therefore \if w a f tiOD l he work with a will 0 ?* ever y friend then Sum on t0 secure that gentleman’s late renrhßPnf U f^ ay We see what our late representative has come to by our re*

turning him at last election. l)o not, then, place another lawyer in the way of temptation, as he, too, might be taken from us at an early date.

■I trust Mr Wales will give us his views on the present mode of conducting the Immigration department—flooding the Colony with a class of people not at all desirable, and at an unreasonable season of the year. Electors ! be careful of your choice at this time, as much depends on the character of the man chosen by you. —I am, *c , A Working Man. Dunedin, April 16.