ROSLYN TO ITS M.H.R.

Evening Star, Issue 4236, 23 September 1876, Page 3

ROSLYN TO ITS M.H.R.

To the Editor.

Sir,—As you have frequently expressed a desire to put matters fairly before the public, touching the present political crisis, you will perhaps allow me to draw attention to a focal in last night's paper calculated to mislead. You there state that the requisition being circulated in the Koslyn; district has been signed by about eighty,' only nine who were called upon refusing. Now, sir, while I do not for a moment doubt the accuracy of this statement, remem-? Bering the number who voted for J. G. S. Grant at fthe last election, I would like to ask how many were not afforded the opportunity of refusing ? I never saw the requisitiou myself,: and; although coming in< contact with numbers daily I have only met one who has seen- it, and he was one of the nine above referred to ; and I feel satisfied, had the requisition been placed before a majority fct the electors, the number refusing Would have been greatly in excess of the uumher signing. Such was not the desire of the parties getting up the requisition, and their, end has been better served by the tactics they have adopted—l am, &c, »••.<:•■ l A Uoslyn Elector. Dunedin, September 22. To the Editor. Sir, —The statements which appeared in last night's Star as to the letter to Mr A. J. Burns having received over eighty signatures 'will not admit of your inference as to its being " the spontaneous expression of opinion of the artisan class." The canvassers for those signatures are storemen in the employ of Messrs Cargills, Gibbs, end Co. and Murray, Xtoberts, and Co; respectively. Then, as regards the signatures, I can vouch for it that some are from persons who did not know what they were signing, and, in come instances* the canvassers signed for them through their inability to write their own names. I leave these facts to speak for themselves. —I am, &c, Ajr Elector op Roslyn. Dunedin,' September 22. [Ae a matter of course, we are dependent upon others for information on the matter referred to by bur correspondent, and as it was given to /via' by one of the artisan class of'uiidoubtedtij-ustwor.tbiness, we feel justified in believing its truth. When contradictions so decided are given to a statement, we consider no withhold his name from the public, although in this in-

stance we publish the letter as desired, under an anonymous signature, rather thau that it should be even thought we do not give persons of every shade of opinion the opportunity of expressing their views. The insinuation that those who signed the letter did not know what they were signing is as insulting as it is likely to be false, and is usually resorted to by partisans who have much zeal and little knowledge, and are, therefore ready blindfold to believe what they do not understand.—Ed. ' E. S.']