The Election.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 200, 21 July 1884, Page 2

The Election.

Sir, — Will you, although a sijp .porter of 1V| l- IviiiQ^rthijr, allcj.w »ne_tp^ tall tho inhabitant of othpi' parU of the district that the vote of confidence m Mr Macarthur.»t Karere was carried, not by the settlors there, but by supporters from fPalmerston. Mr Mti'carthur Would; chII that good generalship, >I o.»lj it ac r tin,g & lie. Mr Macarthur, qg a faijthftii aei-vant to the Corporation, tetu'sept toVive his opinion as to the unla'ir manner m jMok.jionctJidqsa^erii aije ta^ef|. Hffc, y4.i'4 Vilely^d'nd f f^ifcbf uUy./f Ijufhq for.^ ! gets : #a{j; nobody qatf serve tvyc£ masters, riot tlfe most gjgarftig irspl~' leot would enable him to 4o so. The Manawatu 2'hmjSss tjiafc ; M rj is m error m saying that his flr*t duty is towards the colony, (did he 'really.betr.rty/th.lt honourable feeling to the Philistines), anil brings forward §o,n}e very plausible argnments of jtis onin^n, (VtlrpfrfJbjj getful of'ihe fact that the mail who will place local interests above the ;genei'al interests of ;the colony, is very likely upon given occasion to place the local interests of his own person L #bp£B the general interests of the district,— l am, <fyo.,' .(. V. MoNRAB. Karere. [Mr Monrsid appeors to fpi-get that tho, m generalship " he complains of, jn reference, to which he adopts a v,e,ry , ; pftru>jive expression, (winch we ; begged him £0 modify, bu£ he rpfnsed to do,), was also had recourse to. By Mr Eraser's, committee ..when that cajidjdate spoke in' jthe places outside of Palm^rsffiu. §q {haj; mMr $£onrarrs oyes, wb>j; is venial on the ope side m utterly heinous and disreputable ou 'the other. We are assured by several disinterested and reliable witnesses that Mr Macavthui's majorif/ at Kaiere coinpvi-sed mainly residents of that district.— Ed. M.S.]