A SUBSERVIENT FOLLOWER.

Evening Star, Issue 4032, 28 January 1876, Page 3

A SUBSERVIENT FOLLOWER.

. : Mr Joseph Augustus Tole is the name of the new member for, Eden (a district for many years represented by Mr R. J. Creigh-. ton), and we do not think, if we are to ! judge by the speeches deHvered'at the nomination, that the electors have shown any great, wisdom in returning Mr Tole. He has -no political' creed,' and announces himself as a subservient follower of Sir George Grey. He says—Vl haye adopted as my political creed those principles propounded by Sir George Grey. I hope you will not think it intellectual impotence on my part when I say it would be impossible for me to lay out an independant dourse or conduct for my own guidance." Poor young man—he will have much to answer for after he has, followed his leader through one session of the Assembly. According to the 'Cross,', this family of Toles .have somehow "rigged" the electoral roll for Eden. Mr Taylor, an opposing candidate, is , reported to have said that '' he had the curiosity to look over the electoral roll; and he found that no fewer than five persons named Tole, all the brothers pf one family, were entered for :onie small piete of-property, about five acres in extent, valued at about ■• L6O, and situated somewhere in the outskirts tif Eemuera. .Upon this . property M .the five brothers paid rates to the amomit of 4s ;2d per year, or lOd per year each. They ..had five votes, however, for that small sum, and that was the ' great stake' which Mr Tole had in the district,, and of which Mr . T°fe and his supporters had talked so much." This is,a / specimen of how they manage ihattor^' in' Auckland, which; to say the feast of it, is not very creditable to the parties Herald.'