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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6492, 17 December 1881, Page 4

That Mr Allwright should prefer not to be a member of the Sailors’ Home Committee of ibe Lyttelton Harbour Board is the most natural thing in the world. The Sailors' Home must be a sore subject with Mr Allwright. It was in connection with that proposed institution that such a remarkable series of telegrams appeared not so many weeks ago. In order to enable the Ministerial candidate to pose as a man of some influence. Government mode him a promise that some financial arrangement would be mode. As the Government knew quite well that it could not keep the promise, this method of acquiring public support chimed in wonderfully well with the instincts of the commercial and hightoned administration. Unhappily for tbeir candidate, the plan of genius was frustrated by someone who, knowing what he was about, let daylight into the whole arrangement, and compelled Government to make a disavowal, the moitextraordinary thing about which was that it was a plea of ignorance set up by a Government extraordinarily well versed in all the minntia of public business. Happily for the Ministerial candidate, the contest became threecornered, and was fought out in very aggravated three-corner fashion. The result was that in spite of Ibe exposure of the bogus promise to aid the Sailors' Home, the Ministerial candidate got in. Nevertheless, when a colleague in toe Harbour Board proposes that this successful candidate shall bo made a member of toe Sailors’ Home Committee, be cannot be blamed if bo promptly makes objection. No amount of success in politics can reconcile a man's feelings to think well of a trick discovered. Mr AUwrigbt's objection is really most creditable to him. This blushing is the first hopeful sign that bis public career has yet given. There is, after all, some hope for the man who blushes. Of course Mr Allwright bad to become a member of the Committee in the end. The Mayor of Lyttelton could not allow the Mayor of Lyttelton to be passed over in a connection of such importance to the Borough. Mr Allwright then, baa not only bad the grace to blush, but be has alto bad the moral courage to face, for public reasons, a disagreeable duty. We are realty getting on.