TESTIMONIAL TO MR REYNOLDS.

Evening Star, Issue 3690, 19 December 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

TESTIMONIAL TO MR REYNOLDS.

r l n o the Editor. Sir, —The suggestion of a presentation to the Hon. vV. Keynolda is a very important one, and it is to be hoped will not be allowed to slumber During his able career of twenty-one yeai's, Mr i eynolds bus represeute i the Province in a manner for couistency which his. political opponents have often admired 1 repressutatives inthe Provincial to midland th-, s emlily, ho has not varied or tc mod with every political wind that blew, bi it regardle s of seif has •always held steadfastly to one object— the forwarding of the interests of tho Province and Uoiony. Seventeen aj'o Mr Reynolds visited the Home country, where 1 first had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and 1 and others can testify to his energy and ability in representing the interests ana n sources of the Province. Had the »ion. Mr Reynolds been appointed Agent-General, as many thought Jits would be, in cot nection with the Imraigrati on and Puolic Works scheme, the >cluss of emigrants sent would be very different to that sent at present. Though frequently f have not coincided with his political opinions, yet I have always felt it any duty, offcast inconvenience, to go and

record my vote, so confident have f h«en that the interests of the constituency were always safe in his hands. While this is bestowing our meed of praise so well merited on the honorable gentleman, there is another, in my opinion, not less deserving of popular recognition—one who, as every “old identity” knows, has sacrificed his own to the public interest, viz., his Honor the Superintendent, and who should undoubtedly participate in a simi ar presentation I would therefore respe tfully suggest that portraits of both be presented by the public and hung in the Provincial Council Chamber ; and when their pol tical careers terminate, which, it is to be hoped will be many years, even many bevond another transit of Venus, then more substantial presentations will undoubtedly take place Mr Fish deserves the best thanks of the public for his proposal —I am, &c., A. G. Allan. Green Island, December 17.