Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1898. Why P. and oh why/

Manawatu Herald, 28 October 1893, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1898. Why P. and oh why/

* The Ministerial candidate for the Palraerston electorate runs a newspaper, in which, on Thursday last, he inserted a letter from some unfortunate man at Ohau who wants bo know, you know " Why don't the Government find a suitable man to represent the settlers for the Otaki seat?" We notice that our j contemporary offers no solution to the riddle. It is becoming plain, | aven to the most isolated of electors : that the Government is weak, very ' weak, in supporters in this electorate.

It may not have as yefc come to the I correspondent's knowledge lliafc Mr j Donald Fraser ha? b > n carefully examiivd and ?elect.fd by iho Governmeni, but even if i"t had it probably would only have caused him pain instead of pleasure, and ,he .asserts thai, settlers " are about full up of the squatters* man," and Mr Km^or is only another edition of the s:une b;nnd.* It is evident our Ohau fiiend ha-* th_> same opinion of who should be a (iovernmont can-did-jto, as wo haw, as he concludes his lefctoi- by declaring his willingness to stand in the Gjvurntnent interest "i" hoi 1 than see any more lawvirs, commission agents and auctioneers as candidates. TII3 Premier has probably lost his side a vote by j passing over this volunteer when visiting Manakau the othsr day, and we believe, from the tone of the letter, the Ohau resident would have made a more true, representative of his party than Mr Froser will, as he publishes sufficiently wild assertions similar to those that were greedily swallowed at the last general election by the liberal party. Mr Seddon had better recall Mr Fraser or find a seat in the Legislative Council for the true Liberal of Ohau.