CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 176, 23 June 1884, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Mahawatu Seat*

(TO THE, EDITOR OP THE BTANDARD.); „ Sir,t-:How long is the Manawatu ,Beat to ]be a. pocket : bbrough' for thfe Johnston family 1 "We have suppliecJ Mr "Walter Johnston with a^ seat directly for the last ten years, and received nothing, but discourtesy m retiirfl, anrl. now that his private affairs are taking him to Eugland, wje are expected indirectly ;to give Mr Charles Johnston a seat hy accepting Sir Julius Yogel, at the hands of thi> Jqlmstonsiin order that he may not contest Te Aro with Mr Charles. /Thip nice little, arrangement having- been maide m Wellington j when 1 lie eledtors of tliis district are to be .bought and sold, a .Wellington wholesale merchant, who keeps a retail store m t*aliwerston, wa^ at ortce sent up to make known, the decision of th^ VyeUingtpn ring. It was ajnice littlfi intrigue, but the electors are deterjmined this time to have a local menij"her, "whose wants and interests ; ar^ /identical ' Jwith their own! - * I'should strongly adyise, Sir Julius, who seems to wbi a fresh electorate every week, to try his luck an y where rather than m Ajl anawatu, as rbat disbrict is about tired of giving a fourth representatpivt? to . and_^ intends to nave' one 'of its dw'n^^^idein'ls'rejirci aenting it m the, next Parlianient, Whom the electoi's will always have at hand to call to account, should ho misbehave himself.—! am, &c., 1 .■■ ,>... (■; „;: . .. ; .-GEp.:'SifeilsoN. !