MR ROBERTS’S MEETING.

Evening Star, Issue 3762, 15 March 1875, Page 3

MR ROBERTS’S MEETING.

To the Editor. Si*, —Your multiple correspondents, Geo. Miller and Co., seem envious because the electors in public meeting assembled have given Mr Roberts leave of absence for a session. He says the vote was not passed, but 1 suppose silence gives consent, and that the meeting really did jneau what it was supposed to mean; if not, why didn’t it ? If people stay away from such meetings and then find fault that they were not properly represented afterwards, who is to blame ? If Mr Miller and his friends indulge in such occult matters as “telescopic faith,” I am afraid the ; r is no arguing with them ; but for the public at large, though I do cot personally know Mr Roberts, I put in a claim that such men as he are too scarce already in public affairs, and that when they are got to give time and attention to them they should have every indulgence. I remember the time when a newly arrived captain looking in at the Provincial Council remarked that the members were like a “bad lot of steerage passengers perhaps George Miller and his friends would like to see these days back again.—l am, &c., _ ~ Pso Bono Pdblico. Dunedin, March 12.