Correspondence.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 68, 21 November 1855, Page 2

Correspondence.

MOTUEKA ELECTION.

TO THE EdITOB OP THE ' NELSON EXAMINEE.'

Sib — Without presuming that your readers will care to learn what were the unreported sayings of either candidates or electors, allow me to correct one point of your reporter's account, by which he makes it appear that I made a statement which was scarce English, viz., that I " did not appear there from any act of my own." What I did say was, "that I should not have appeared before the electors had not a resolution been adopted at a public meeting (to the calling of which I Avas no party, and at which I was only present by accident), that I was a fit and proper person to represent the district in the General Assembly. It was therefore to gratify no object of my own that I stood before them, but from a sense of public duty only." Without troubling you witli what I stated as to my views on public affairs, it is but justice to Mr. Parker to state, that he did not finally withdraw his original refusal to stand the election until after the nomination, when Mr. Salisbury's views were fully ascertained, and at the earnest entreaty of his constituents ; and then only, as I understood him, from the fear that the supporters of the candidate to oppose me might have carried the election against me, though it was well known that there was no chance of their carrying a majority against him. The truth of this assumption has been amply proved by the result of the poll. I remain, &c., David Jennings. Motueka, Nov. 10.