CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 233, 11 September 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.) POLITICAL AFFAIRS. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln soliloquising over recent events in connection with the political affairs of the colony, and having a shady knowledge of the present, I am struck with alarm when I find your contemporary’s special at Wellington has not been called to the Upper House, or made adviser-in-chief to the Governor. The veiled dictum which we read in the Herald is surely from the author of authors, emanating no doubt from himself, possessing a spirit of vindictiveness towards all who dare oppose the late Atkinson Government. Of course it is only natural to expect that those who did so must be maligned in the severest type. Our late member we know received some nice complimentary remarks after his departure for England. As a rule the people of Gisborne, after the election is over, bury the hatchet, as exemplified by Messrs. Chambers and Ferris at the meeting of the Conference, when the selection of the so-called defeated candidate took place. It would have been advantageous and instructive to such an important personage as the Herald's own had he been present at the public meeting when the Conference was elected, when we find the Mayor admitting the statements made there hy Mr. Rees as an eye-opener to him, and I may add to all in the room. However, it is quite refreshing to read that our present member could do better without having any knowledge than those who have taken time and trouble to get the statements up to perfection. When we find public men noticing the ludicrous way the uwn is pulling the strings, it is quite enough to bring on tetanus, better known as Lockjaw.