CITY NORTH ELECTION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1011, 13 December 1881, Page 3

CITY NORTH ELECTION.

Mr Rees’s tactics have been duly discerned and appreciated, for it is stated that his meetings have been ostensibly to address the electors of City North, but iu reality as Sir George Grey’s lieutenant to promote that gentleman’s return for City East, and to assail Mr Reader Wood, Mr Hurst, aud Mr J. M. Clark, and discredit their candidature. Among other .extraordinary statements he said that he was continually consulted by the Grey Government, knew the mind of every Cabinet Minister, and knew all business brought before the Cabinet with the exception of one or two State secrets, and was in fact regarded almost as a Cabinet Minister. He could therefore, deny Mr Reader Wood’s statement that he was not aware that it was iu intended to make him AgentGeneral. Mr Rees declared there was such an understanding: that he was

aware of it from his knowledge of Cabinet business, and Mr Wood knew it also. It was not carried out because of Messrs Macandrew, Stout, Ballance, and Whitmore’s objections. Some of these gentlemen did not want to break with Sir Julius Vogel, and others were afraid of him. He presumed Mr Reader Wood ratted because the understanding was not carried out.