THE MAYORALTY.

Evening Star, Issue 4163, 30 June 1876, Page 3

THE MAYORALTY.

To the Editor. Sir, —There are times when the most peaceable of us are obliged, in self defence, to rush into print. I find myself reluctantly in that state just now. Mr Reeves is reported by your morning contemporary to have said, “That, if my memory serves me r ; ght, Mr Walter, as he was returning thanks after his election as Mayor, said distinctly ‘ that he hoped those who had voted for him on that occasion would be found voting on the following year for Mr Reeves.’” Sir, allow me, in reply, to say that the statement is as false as it is unworthy a candidate for as high an office as that of Mayor of this City. I have never canvassed for, or S’ven Mr Reeves a single vote in my life, r reasons best known to myself. As to Mr Reeves assigning as a reason why I am contesting the election this year “that circumstances alter cases,” no one knows more or better for years past than that gentleman that I possess a mind of my own and sufficient independence of spirit to keep* any promise I may have once made. And I may also venture to think that my worcl as a public man, as a citizen and a tradesman, will bear favorable comparison with that of even Mr C. S. Reeves.—l am, &c,, Henry J. Walter. Dunedin, June 30.