WAIKOUAITI ELECTION.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 321, 23 April 1875, Page 4

WAIKOUAITI ELECTION.

"I I'hp follpwiuy' very, characteristic from. Mr. J/P. Armstrong, ia, published jn, tho ' Guardian',with>foot-" . note attached. . We, should, not bo the least surpriaovJL to see our friend nominated for Waikouaiti, and slip in between the two stopk—wooden, he appears to think. Poasibly : , Waikouaiti might do worse j —• ("To the Editor of tho ' OtaefO Ouardian.'J SijK,-r-;3p many friends have been urging me to stand for the above district that I really do not know what to do. I am still of opinion that, as a rule, members of Provincial Councils should not be members of tho General Assembly. No doubt there are exceptions to all rules, and perhaps it would be better for an intelligent gentleman like myself to represent two places—one in the Provincial Council, the other in the General Assembly—rather than either district should be sacrificed by some " noodle," whose friends would like to work a miracle, outraging the laws-of Nature by endeavoring to make a politician of him.. -In conclusion, I maysstats''e s '' that I am opposed to all such foolish attempts.—l am, &0.,

J. P. Abmstkong. ~ [Wo are somewhat disposed to think that, if tho electors of Waikouaiti should ,• take into their own hands to return Mr. Armstrong, I*9 will then know what to do —namely, accept the honor, and address ; them after the eloction, as he did at Mount Ida. He is quite right in keeping aloof beforehand. There is a good deal of tho Nolo episcoparl about this' business.—Ed. O.G.] '