ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1307, 15 June 1880, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

THE ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMABU WATTSir, —I believe it is unanimously agreed that New Zealand just now is in a most critical financial position—that we must have men in Parliament who will work, not only for the good of the district which they represent, but for the Colony at large. There has been too much fight* ing for particular distriots, especially when the members may have had personal stake in it. I conceive it to be well to - have poor, honest, and straightforward i men in the House—men who have no - personal ends to serve, but who will legis- , late for the general good of all. We know the class of men now in power are de. ! sirous of having birds of the same feather . to work with ; and pity, then, the lot of the poor or middle man. The cry is often raised, <<Xt is measures we want, not men 3" but I say put in the right stamp of men and you will soon get measures. Eoonomy is said to be the order of the day in Wellington this session. The pruning-knife is certainly wanted, and it must be applied in all directions that the enormous expense of the Colony may be lessened. I quite agree with your re* marks in reference to the recent Royal Commissions. The work done by (hesQ should have been done by Ministers themselves, and then a very large portion at least of the LIO,OOO would have been saved to the Colony. This going on pleasure trips to recruit health, or as sops to disappointed hopes, should be stopped The Hall-Atkinson Government is too fond of this State traveling at a Royal outlay. I 86$, agafa, tl\at the Speaker I has been knighted, and now wo are to bo asked to '«pay the piper." I maintain if gentlemen are desirous of such Royal distinction, the aggrandized should pay the cost. He has no doubt sought fiuence to obtain the distinction, and the Colony cannot afford tQ pay for

£?U now, when eve ? penny that can «ed should bo saved, certainly until yS £«» tided over a depression trail 9 Tj in New Zealand- The polling W * n to exercise our votes, and it «s the electors to carefully weigh in balances the three candidates in ls fl ..Each have many qualities enthem to the vacant seat. Bat one be chosen who has the most—one k can be relied upon to act diswreatedly, openly, boldly, and snccesaI need not here particularise the up?* or the means to obtain them, as I® 683 fuZ- • been, and still are to be, <f «jU act as above and so prove himif » benefactor to this district is— Jones. —I am, &c., . AOKICOLA.

FORKING MEN, BEWARE. ■jgE EDITOR OP THIS OA34ARU KAIL. 1L _I think it is only right that the men of the district should be "■%ed how they receive the professions newly-found friend, Mr. John '•j The whole of this friendship is 5 ntv pa' on for the sake of catching f votes of the unwary. Let them bear mind that Mr. Reid pays lower wages ? n the other farmers in the district, r *fjafc he imports cheap labor from n „edin Let them when they enter the Iff booth scratch out the name of 7. Johnj o hn Reid, the man who engaged ter3 in Dunedin at LI a week less fa was paid by poorer but more erons farmers, and thus show the lord f giJerslie how they appreciate his grf.hip.-I am, 4*.^ jjaneraki, June 14,1880.

w THE editoe of the oamarc mail. SBs B —I notice in this morning's North fiiL) Times that a writer states that Sir. hts has no ability, and that he is a Lantity- I would ask the writer if he L noint me to any man in New Zealand To to done more than Mr. Jones to Laic op I "ng an< * huid sharking ? the North Island. Find me another ff ho had the pluck and ability to ZL the root of the evil. Brother toon, beware of the big-bug 3 and land liarfa, and remember what Mr. Reid said lijout the poor man.—l am, &c., Elector.

HOLIDAYS. to THE EDITOR OF THE OA3IAKC MAIL. —Could you inform me by whose uithority and on what grounds a holiday bs granted to the children at the Public jchoofe on the occasion of the Steepleiaae meeting yesterday 1 It wa3 quite B d enough that a public holiday jjuufd have been proclaimed for such .paltry event —but that the children iioiild have been taught by inference that ho spectacle of a miserable lot of 'screws" hurTy-skurrying over a few migniiicant hurdles and ditches i 3 worthy f such prominent notice, seems to me a legislation of educational influences. I mnot one who can join in the wholesale lenunciation of horse-racing by the Presjjteryof Oamaru, but I do protest against Jie mj in which holidays are granted low far such events as that of yesterday, odat those times when the senseless and istiaa part of coursing is carried out.—l im, etc., A Parent. [We presume the holiday was granted ij the School Committee, the members of rU would no doubt give reasons for feir action if the correspondent applied 0 them for an explanation. —Ed. O.M.] > • [HE 1IQ T 'JE ABUSE THE BETTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARtT MAIL. S m —When a man 13 well abused he receives a greater compliment than the nan who is belauded with praise. Therefore I hope that Mr. Jones will beep his jeckernp, and accept all the abuse that 9 Being heaped upon him in the light of 1 decided compliment. When an oppolentisnot dangerous it i 3 customary to tat him. with contempt. No man with lajark of courage would thiuk of going rat to fight with a boy. But it is different in the case of a dangerous opponent. St. Jones is a dangerous opponent of the intelligent, educated, and gentlemanly slectors-who have brought Mr. Reid foriard t and they are therefore driven wild, tithelr rage they abuse him to the very utmost extent permissible by their gentlenanly manners—Heaven save the mark ! ykt is the meaning of all this 1 That the diife of the district are at the mercy of the working classes and farmers.—Tours, it Hurrah.

THE LIBERAL CANDIDATE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE OAMARU MAIL. 8 ra,—Having come in from the country Way, I am astonished to see so many virulent letters, containing very little substance in them, against Mr. Jones in your contemporary's issue of this morning. I think it is iffle that supporters of Mr. Jones, at whose Wprt solicitations he came forward, should come forward and defend themselves, &rit ia them the warfare is waged against, ®t not Mr. Jones, in reality. A representato'6 in coming forward is considered to be filfajy at the disposal o£ the electors, of *iioni a majority should in every case rule. Save not an overwhelming majority already jfthe Liberal electors told Mr. Roberts that not their candidate, and that they will ® tave him as their representative? and ■ttonitty, will Mr. Roberts, or hi 3 few supPjtera he can hardly keep together to fad him, arrogantly presume to dictate ® the majority whom they will choose ? majority having rejected Mr. Roberts, ® v e they not the freedom and right to; wose llr, Jone3 if they please ? Sir, I °®sider ilr. Roberts a peraon full of for*®iaesa and impertinence, and if I had no reason against him, I certainly would "N jive him my vote. He may hold a Pshge amongst some of the Corporation ®®>ber3 as their understrapper, or, as some to call him, their bottle-washer ; tat whatever satisfaction he may give in ® l ' capacity, it does not follow that he is ®pable of representing thi3 community in wiament.—l am, &c. A Country Elector. Juael* ISSO.

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