SIR GEO. GREY UNSEATED.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1776, 29 October 1879, Page 2

SIR GEO. GREY UNSEATED.

To the JUditor of the Globe. Bib, —In my perusal of your contemporary, the " Star," of Saturday last, I noticed the very nonsensical remarks of a correspondent styling himself " Staunch Liberal," and in which he puts himself forward as one able to criticise the action of Mr H. Allwright, the member for Lyttelton, re his impartial and conscientious decision whereby Sir Geo. Grey was unseated for Chrktchurch.

"Staunoh Liberal," in dealing with the question, says :—" Mr Allwright must be fully aware that he went to Parliament on the Liberal ticket, yet he turns rousd on the very man whom he may thank for the honorable position he has attained, &c, &c." True that Mr Allwright went to Parliament as pledged to support Liberalism, and, as one of his supporters, I have watched keenly his actions during the session, and, so far, fail to find a loophole by which he has departed from his pledge. Mr Allwright, in his address to his constituents, very plainly said : —" I support the measures, and not the men." Again, at the Oddfellows' Hall:—"If Greyismis Liberalism, then I am a Greyite to the backbone," which is literally applicable to the first quotation. " Staunch Liberal," it appears to me, does not fully understand the question of Liberalism, for he endeavors to persuade us that Sir George Grey is personally one of those measures sought for. I should like to see " Staunch Liberal " deal with the unconstitutional actions of Mr Allwright, by which I mean where he (Mr Allwright) has been led astray from the measures he has pledged himself to support, and I certainly deny that Sir George Grey is the man who placed Mr Allwright in his honorable position, &c. The electors of Lyttelton only had the honor of so doing. In conclusion I recognise the actions of our member as honorable in the extreme, and as actions whioh have gained him the admiration of many of his opponents and only disgusted " Staunch Liberal," and, as long as he obtained the measures sought for by his constituents, my recommendation to him is to support the Hall Ministry, who have these measures on their programme. Tours, &o. ANOTHER SUPPORTER. Lyttelton, Oct. 27th, 1879.