ELECTORAL NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4035, 1 February 1876, Page 2

ELECTORAL NOTES.

: £ Mimht JDSstiicl* . the i * , voting for believe, and vote, stating that tbjsy bad-come -in merely to refuse, and givet .thjMr reason /fdii. so : >doingMlThia Maori > -yebresentation is becoming-a farce.. '-> jtarefereiwe ri) thedisjiuted point aSsb fv the validity of the return 6f ; Mresrs Hislop ' Tmd Slmmskr’ for foUowiM ' - letteMrom: Mr* Steward in vaster. ; * North Otago,TinleSTtxj ' Speaker 5»--bfj ariV' BoM-d* If it wort it is a depart. ’- Bifent of-the Government--ofthe colony, tfceaMr . As to theresult*mtoth^wrewtpf 1 . ■ thore seems to»e uttje mfeoalty Sa aatl»'.i , vSMur' Wv.' - ; K wcnldAoptewthatWcrel, as ths , tiiird%mflldH»w . at! tAi».poU,roti'toy tfMtorf.ftfi P«MtiQjiag«diiflt..Mx~; HMop’s return within the ;SF«- dotefjind taty&im J&:t®to|heWt [Htslop, like Mr Montgomery, - . Cas«mblip£'qf .the House-,;•... :.i =tHaV either Mr Hinton or Mr<atwßwsß? AM. mid If.BQ whs I y% tfahfl ln riply.to that v hM^tga

Hislq p's or MrShrimski’syetum, orto claim the seat of either ; although, ,be" it clearly finderatood, 1 believe that were 1 to do so, I should be the sitting member, for .the aeit ;Parllamant. While ! had the honor to represent thifl constituency in the Assembly, from first to last I possessed, I believe, the entire conMeacO’of a large. majority of the electors, and at every* 'post-sessional net only on assurance of this, but also a rate of thanks for my services. I would holduny Seat'on no other terms than these, anct'wouldoertainiy not, - continue to hold the seat for.a single day.- under present, cir- \ cumstances, evdri if declared the sitting member. Were another deoticflt.to.be held in- afew-months’ time, through,oio resignation i of Mr Hislop,. I should not allow myself-to' be nominated unleaS I had flrsferebeived undoubted' evidence that public : opinion had in the meantime. undergono such another and complete : change as it recently suddenly underwent. ■ • .