OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Evening Star, Issue 4239, 27 September 1876, Page 3

OUR REPRESENTATIVES.

To the Editor,

Sir, —ln consequence of the unprecedented action of the self-styled Political Association of Otago in issuing an invitation to our members to leave Parliament and come to Dunedin, Messrs Macandrew and Stout will, to-night, be placed upon their trial at the bar before their sovereign lord— Demos. The electors will be called upon to choose spokesmen, pro and con , to accuse and exculpate their conduct during the past three months.

Our members, doubtless, require rest after such Herculean attempts to kill time and lay prostrate in the dust the energies, physical and mental, of the House of Assembly. Let them, therefore, maintain a discreet silence until the jury shall have returned a proper v-rdict regarding them. Also, let both factions remember the golden rule, “Fair play is a jewel;” and let both sets of opinion be heard respectfully, and then the people will be able to deliberate and vote wisely and happily with credit to themselves and satisfaction to the City, Our Parliament has been over three months in session, at a cost of 140,000, and what has been done? Talk, talk, talk, and nothing else.

Does Sir George Grey, at his time of life, forget the solemn warning that “for every idle word which men shall utter they shall have to give account ?” This is true in more senses than one. It is time now to cease playing at Parliament; and men ought to rise to the occasion aud do the ; r very best for the good of this Colony, and help to usher in a new and more perfect era and a simple and lees expensive form of administ’ration,—l am, 4c.,

J. G. S. Grant. Dunedin, September 27.