THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3781, 9 February 1881, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1881.

Teere seems to be a strong probability of an opening occurring for one local candidate at least in this district at the next general election, as we believe it is the intention of Sir George Grey to stand for a southern constituency. In case an opportunity should occur it will be necessary for the common welfare of the public that electors should carefully guard against being made the tool of any particular clique or party, and they should weigh well the qualifications of candidates before promising their support. In selecting a candidate it will be necessary to pick one who has some more patriotic feeling than that of selfagrandisement, and who enters the = Houses with some other idea in his head than that of drawing the honorarium, or of spouting columns of trash, and so taking up space in Hansard. A man who enters the House with the firm determination to act for his country first and his constituents second, puts himself at the bottom of the list; While on this subject, we may say unhesitatingly that the electors in the several electoral districts are treated by their representatives as convenient pivots, and used by' them in the large majority of cagesj merely as tools in the furtherance of selfish wishes. We do not think the' Representative Bill will be passed by the House next Session, as the adoption of it would inevitably be the death warrant to some favoured districts, while several districts —the Thames, for example —would be benefitted, and, if fairly treated, would be entitled to another member. We trust, however, that such will be'the case, as an important and large electoral district liko the Thames, reaching from Cape Colville to the Aroha, is deserving of at least three members, which she would be entitled to on the basis of population.