A DAMNING EVIDENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 91, 12 November 1879, Page 2

A DAMNING EVIDENCE.

*" ~lf is not often I indulge m e&tracfc matter,hnt m reading over the Hansard report of the treachery of the False Four, I find that Mr. DeLautour thus rams the. lie down- the throat of Mr. Header Wood^ and expose? his black-hearted treac&ery :-£ . " The honorable member for 'Waite'nata moved that Mr. Macandrew< should be leader of the -party. I was .doubtful, and had some hesitation m agreeing to such a motion, coming from the, : leader of the Auckland party, who I- thought was fighting m Sir G-eorge G-rey's interest. I ventured to protest. J Said X did not think it was a good thingi that if it was to, be; justified, it could be justified only hy-ex-pedierifiy' and by'suecesß • that.it might possibly happen that if tne^party^wad to meet with discomfiture; it might be necessary to fall back upon the -honorable memr ber, the lato Premier, *as the onj.y. possible; rallying point we had m the country m the cause of Liberalism. What said ray honorable friend ? He got up, some^bjj; indignantly, and said, •Tf'ifcis uhderstbod that Mr. Macandrewf shall- not lead, the whole thing will drop. * I insist upon Mr. Macandrew leading to the end of the Session."' How the traitor — who had attributed his apdstacy to his resentment for the deposir tion of Sir Gfeorge Grey^-must hare writhed and winced under the aboyo withering denial and exposi !