THE ELECTIONS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1728, 3 September 1879, Page 3

THE ELECTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PEE 33,

SlB, —Will you be good enough to ask any of the electors for Christchurch to inquire •why Sir Q-eorge Grey took passage in the Hinemoa for Wellington on the day before the nomination for the Christchurch election ? Will you also ask him, or rather will the electors of Christchurch ask him, what is the meaning of bringing out 300 immigrants on Saturday last, when he has taken upon himself to discharge 100 railway men within the last few days ? Will you also allow the electors of Christchurch to ask why the enormous official staff in the engineering department should be kept up and increased day by day, and the working man sent about bis business ?

This is Sir George Grey’s liberal policy! Let a Royal Commission on the railway matters be appointed, as Mr Stevens suggests, and I venture to state that there is nut one man from here to Dunedin who will give a vote for Sir George Grey, unless he is coerced by the man who is ‘‘beloved of all his men.” Let Sir George look at the 75,000 “ serfs ” whose voting power he alludes to in his speeches. Are there not serfs on the Canterbury railways who, with far greater truth, may be stigmatised as such ? Are there not men there who would sacrifice anything for the sake of their billet, even honor itself. Yet this is the Government which the working man is attempting to uphold. For goodness sake, let the working men of Canterbury look before they leap. There is now a great struggle for freedom, and I only hope that the Canterbury men will not be led away by any of the subtle arguments of Sir George Grey or the absurd bunkum of Andrews, Treadwell, and Co. Yours, &c., Thue Both.