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Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 972, 7 September 1871, Page 2

The West Coast Titjies, for peculiar reasons, which are not difficult to comprehend, seems resolved to attack and misrepresent the County Chairman on every possible opportunity, and it has seized the question of the meeting anenl the Omotumotu road as its latest subject for misrepresentation. Without publishing the report as it appeared in the local papers, it leads its readers to infer froiri thepar^ar graph a day or two since regarding it, and in its leading article of yesterday, that the County Chairman was badly received and unpopular with his constituents. The facts are, as it is well known in Greymouth, simply the reverse, and, as we have before stated, the West Coast Times ha 3, for reasons of its own, chosen to wilfully misrepresent them. The County, dhairman came to Greymouth, riot, so riiudh in his capacity of County Chairman, but in that of one of the. members for the district, to explain the relative merits of the two routes to Marsden, knowing full well that there was considerable difference of- opinion on the subject, and asking an expression as to which of the routes the inhabitants considered would best, conduce* to their interests and open up the country. Having a knowledge of the manner in which the road from Stafford Town to KaftierLhad been debated upon, the County Chairman came and explained his views in favor of the route recommended by the Government Engineer ; and, instead of being received with ? disfavor," they were received favorably by the meeting, and' a vote passed endorsing them. " The resolution passed," the West Coast Times insinuates, "binds .the County Chairman to the course it indicates," — whereas;: it was merely an expression from that' meeting, and as such can only be taken. When the West' Coast Times places matters before its readers, let it state at least some show of facts without' wilfully misrepresenting them;