Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3913, 14 July 1881, Page 2

Correspondence.

These columns are open to all correspondence of public interest, but we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions oj writers. Correspondence must in all sases be authenticated by the real name and address of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

(To the; Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—lt is said, " Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad ;" if so, the destruction of your morning contemporary is near at hand, as one day we hare a flaming article telling the Thames electors that they hare been robbed out of a member, riz., because the word "Thames" is converted into that of " Coromandel;" and then in this case the rose would not smell so sweet. In his article of this.morning he trys to persuade the electors of the; Thames that he, and he only, knows the proper electoral boundary, and tells us we ought to have three members. But that, according to his own showing, is only to be done by robbing our neighbours, yet as we are a constituency "that never ask for anything, nor trouble the Government." it would be extremely unfair plundering others. From what we can learn of the Gorernment proposals, there is to be one member for erery 5500 of a population in the colony, and this entitles the present electoral district to two members and a quarter, and to get rid of that quarter they gire us a big say in returning a member, for some other district. He tells the elec'ors that the Gorernment are playing into the hands of their friends by putting a portion of the Thames County into that of Waikato, whose population, according to last census, is 4774. He surely forgets the fact that the portion of the County referred to has been.in the Waikato for years, and that the member for that district, although a Gorernment supporter, has been more a member for this district than the two we selected. He next tells us that the East Coast people are friends of the Gorernment. He surely does not try t to persuade us that the member for that district is also a friend of the Government. His proposed alteration is even worse than that of the Government, and none can understand it unless endowed with the same sort of brains as himself. Just fancy putting Hastings, Parawai and Waiotahi into Coromandel, and trying to persuade the Coromandel folks that they hare a member for themselves, when he knows well enough from what he saw of the last conference held in Coromandel that the people object to any such way of disposing of them without being consulted in the matter. Ohinemuri and the'whole of the rest of, the County is to be handed over to the tender mercies of Block 27 and the few acres of land which the population happens to hare squatted down, waiting for the opening up of the country for settlement.—l am, &c,

ELECTOP.