THE HOKITIKA ELECTION.
10 THE EDITOR OP THE HEW ZE.Vb.VND TIMES. Sib, —I was much disappointed at not seeing in your columns any notice of the dinner given to Mr. Seymour Thome George, M.H.R., to ' celebrate his return for Hokitika. I fear that political jealousy and pique have influenced you in this matter. I now hand you a brief outline of Mr. George’s eloquent speech in responding to the toast of his health, am> I trust that you, in common fairness, will give it ■publicity. The next toast by the Chairman was “ Mr. S. T. George, and may he long represent Hokitika with credit to himself and advantage to his friends.*’
Mr. George happily responded, saying he always would do all that in him lay for the benefit of his constituents generally and his private supporters in particular. Ho regretted that he had only carte llanchc for three J.P.-ships and for one member of the Legislative Council. Who the latter would be those present could have no doubt of. As to the J.P., with the exception of some one of them who was already provided for, he felt obliged to so many that he really was rather cornered to know which of bis friends ought to get the other chances. However, he hoped that should any feel themselves aggrieved by being left ent in the cold, they would put it down, not to his want of will, but, as it was in fact, tp his want of power—(cries .of “ Hear, hear” —as nothing would give him greater satisfaction than if his uncle would issue patents, not only of J.P., but of nobility to all those present at, that hospitable board. Mr. George concluded with a brilliant peroration upon the duties the present representatives of New Zealand owed to the colony in general, and to the whole human race in particular.— I am, &c., Electob.
[Our correspondent is mistaken. We had no intimation of the event to which he refers, and the fact of our ready insertion of his letter ■ will show biro, we hone, that we are superior to tho small jealousy of which he snspecta ns. We regard Mr, George as a very “ promising ’’ member of the House,— Ed. N.Z.T.I
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5390, 6 July 1878, Page 3
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371THE HOKITIKA ELECTION. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5390, 6 July 1878, Page 3
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