THE MEMBERS FOR WAITAKI

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 379, 11 July 1877, Page 2

THE MEMBERS FOR WAITAKI

TO THE EDITOR OF THE KVKNIJfG MAIL Sib, —TJioro appears in your monii: contemporary a letter on the subject' our Legislative representatives, bemi' the signature "Progress." Jt was w. feelings of unalloyed pleasure 1 perns that eil'itsion. (1 have since shouted; my tailor, a man who is always annoy; inc. P. thinks " ice ought to show soi: thing of their policy"—the italics mine. Bravo, P. ; let us be free ins and make our representatives do as tli are ordered ; let us all become, as it we: members of the "great unwashed," a howl uproariously for our Hooray ! " Progress " knows a thing two ; and there can be no doubt that' he would let our members know one those tilings, or two, the town, count: and Colony generally, would be vt much the better of it. (.Sotto row—l old man, let yourself out.) We have i: elected men with minds of their own,vj in any way capable of acting for selves ; therefore, I s;iy, Jet us ins'ttJ them : they are, as Kobertus TrottoijjJ writes, Noh com-alUmx in sicamp) Nuf <ed. I am, etc.

Ax Intkuestkd On;;, [Wc have spent five minutes in attain]■ ing to decide whether the writer of ft above is a confirmed lunatic, or whetl:' the Calcined Corkonians iiave temporari unseated his intellect. The question isIs there not some horrible meaning lur< ing beneath the last few words vir ivliicli he concludes I Lest there slioiij be, wc most distinctly wis it to be undi. stood that " we are not responsibly f' tlie opinions or sanity of our corresjwi dents."—Ed., R M.\ \