THE COMING PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 935, 4 February 1871, Page 3

THE COMING PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE UAWKE'S BAY TIMES. Sir,--As your journal is the only really politically independent journal in the Province, permit me through your columns to draw the attention of my fellow electors to the fact that the elec tion of members to the Provincial Council will take place shortly, and (espe .cially with the ballot in their hands) that if they, through their apathy, permit to be" re-elected those who represent only their own shepherds and their own sheep, or their own counters, the fault will rest with the electors themselves.

But why is it, Sir, that the electors of this Province are unable to .refer for information as to how their representatives voted last Council 1 Why are not the minutes of the Council published 1 Why is it that the returns of receipts and expenditure for the various quarters have not been published since the accession of Mr Ormond to office 1 Why is it that as yet no attempt has been made to collect the Education Kate this year? Is it because ,the Government are anxious to see the elections over quietly, so that those members who voted for the rale may obtain their seats unquestioned ? The small farmers in the country will repent their apathy if they allow large holders of land to be re-elected who, in amending the District Highways Act, will i.ake care that the rate will not fall on those who- hold land unimproved, but the small farmer will have to pay the piper on his improvements. 1 call, then, upon my fellow-electors to shake off at once their present apathy, or they will bitterly repent it.—l am, &c, An Electok. Napier, Feb. 3, 1871.