MR SALA’S BEREAVEMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1544, 19 August 1886, Page 3

MR SALA’S BEREAVEMENT.

Mr G. A, Sala, having been invited to come forward as the Liberal candidate for the Hornsey division, has addressed the following letter to tbe Secretary of the Hornsey Liberal and Radical Association;—“Dear sir,—l am in receipt pf your esteeip o d communication of the 21st' inst., asking m® whether I am willing 1o stand as a candidate for the representation in Parliament of the Hornsey division of the county of Middlesex. Four letter would have had an earlier reply had I not been suffering from the fag-end of a fever recently contracted in India. . I now write gratefully and respectfully to decline fhe honor whiph you would seek to confer upon me. Had your invitation been addressed to me six months ago, I would willingly have sought the suffrages of your electorate, and .had I been returned I would have done ray best in the House of Commons to advocate and vindicate ihq.t great Liberal cause of which, for more than thirty years, I have been an earnest, albeit,an Qbscqre, sup-: porter io f;he cblpmnq of the L o,J don daily Press, But a dreadful domestic bereavement, with which I was stricken on December 3ist, 1885, has left me a heart-broken and desolate old man, utterly without ambition, and totally indifferent to the pros and cons of party strife. I hayp pq henft to go into Parliament, and t should he no good to my constituents if f went thpre. Thanking you for what I esteem to b e a sp’endid compliment, and hoping that you will be able to secure a sound Rsdioal to represent Hornsey in lieu of Lord Kensington, believe me to be, faithfully yoprs always, .Auflusips 1