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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5275, 20 February 1878, Page 2

It is rumored that the electors of Wellington will to-day bo asked to sign a requisition nailing upon Mr. George Hunter, M.H.R., to give in his adhesion to the present Ministry, or else resign. It has never been alleged that Mr. Hunter has in one single instance departed from the views he clearly and distinctly enunciated prior to his return, and it is an unprecedented thing that he should be asked to resign because a candidate holding different views has been elected by less than one-fourth of the electors. Had Mr. Hunter not adhered to the principles which secured his election, there would be good grounds for the requisition; but it is absurd that a politician should be blamed for not turning his coat. We opine that the electors of Wellington hold clearer and higher ideas of the duties of a representative than the persons who are responsible for the requisition, the effect of which would be to bring the constituency into contempt in the eyes of the people of the colony. No reflecting man with a grain of self-respect would sign such a requisition.