A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 4238, 26 September 1876, Page 3

A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.

To the Editor. Sir, —To-morrow night our 'representatives to meet their constituents, at the instigation of a self-constituted ccterie styled "The Political Association." Now Sir, I, in common with thousands of others, would like to know who are these men that dare to call themselves the defenders of Otago's rights J Mr if every member of Parliament who happens to be unfortunate enough not to carry any particular crotchet of his chooses to rush out of the Assembly to address his constituents and inflame the public passions against the constituted authorities, there would be a speedy end to all order and good government. Upon these grounds every loyal citizen ought to stamp out the first beginnings of such a pernicious and dangerous precedent. Let our representatives be told to return to the place whence they came, and betake themselves to the despatch of public business and save our City from becoming the laughing stock of the Colony. New Zealand can do without Dunedin, but Dunedin cannot do without New Zealand.—l am, &c, A Dunedin Tradesman. Dunedin, September 25.