New Zealand Times (PUBLISHED DAILY.) WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 1877.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4990, 21 March 1877, Page 2

New Zealand Times (PUBLISHED DAILY.) WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 1877.

Mr.. Travers resembles nothing so much asJhe.littlelbpy.lwhQL chalks .facetious remarks/on; the. street doors in a suburb, and, then:runsiaway, frightened afc. the probable j consequences. Addressing the electors at the iCaledonian Hotelon Monday night, we find by our report that he referred to the representation of the city, ;and, complained, that had the Town,Clerk done his duty last year in preparing a return of the ratepayers in the city, tlie'. number of electors this year would be much more numerous ; and he blamed the Mayor "for^.this-neglect. If we are not: misinformed, ■' and we trust we are, Mr. Travers waited on the; Town Clerk yesterday, arid explained, that in thia matter he had, as usual, been misrepre-, sented by the New Zealand Times, and that he had' no' intention 'to blame, the Town Clerk, ..the. Mayor.being in reality theoffender.l We naturallyexpected, under these, to have" been loudly accused of ".misrepresentation"- last evening ; but' we find one. jpurnal,'-which whilst supporting Mr. Travers does not cook the reports of his' meetings, makeshipvsay—" That if the Town Clerk had donei his_duty Jji the _matter_-of ...puttinfg the names of all those.whb had paid- their; rates last year on—the electoral roll that' roll would now have contained 1000 more names than itdoes; ; He thought that th!e Mayor-'had; noV shown a very great desire for the'good-of- the -electqrs_when ihe..llel to_-adjd the names lie had-referred to to theiTpJl.'" This.being so, thg writer jnianother: journal, whose championship ofcMr^.Travers has been of infinite injury to_ that*'gen-':' tleman; probably hesitated, arid conaidere'fJ that even- untruth -has its'liinitsi; .Now,, the simple fact is. that .Mr.'Travers'did blame.the. Town .Clerk as ''<■ well.'".aa, thje Mayor for a matter which we'. .very. shrewdly Buspect„the__CityJ3olicit6r_(Mr. Travers) \vas. ioi blame. '■ Perhaps Mr. - Travers will kindly tell us whether He I advised the Mayor 'and' Town -Cleric'on the question or did not ? The City Solicitor, as a candidate for Parliament, is willing to ignore his civijc-, position in many ' things. Was, not hts" advice asked as regards the private "subject7"and : .was "not -that advice jfol- ; lowed? Mr. Travers'is riot to be'cdm 1 -- plimented on the manner in which h|B' tiratiiitously imported a new element into the present contest, and implied apparently that it was necessary for a candidate to 'be as precise as ! to his religion ak f to his politics. Because at some.previous' meeting' some one had. foolishly asked him what church ,he - f belonged to'," and heL had . comprehensively\. replied .'.'The. Church of God," he r , considered it necessary on Monday: night) ton give a history of the religious^belief family .for three .generations.past: '-iHis doing this was a matter of taste,- and' resulted' in- one of those customary'displays of bad taste by which he and some of fiis supporters have effectually marred all chance of his election. Of such was the pleasant.suggestion made la3t night in re-; ference.to tlie presumed author of our leading article of yesterday morning, in a sentence which said that the article spoke " strongly of the unreasoning : zeal of a renegade on behalf of his new faith and bitter animosity to the one he j-has de-{ serted." A sentence as false as it wa3 malicious, and having the true ring of the writer, whose malevolence and coarseness rha'ye" gradually "brought on him thejConJ tempt of all.' As has been before stated,' it has been the;mißfoi!tune; though we are 1 not. prepared . to,,' say that it > has bee* the 1 faultj off Mr. Travers, to have had as;a| kind of political- sponsor • thiß'same writer, who never takes'up' ; a cause but to destroy it by the evil reputation andthe badf- odour his,'connection;-with' any 'side inevitably attaches to it, ~ .! , \