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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4040, 9 December 1881, Page 3

Electoral. Fadtbbxisimbnt.] TO THE ELECTORS OP CdROMANDEL. pENTLEMEN,The Friends of Mr Maokay, a Candidate for tht above Sleetorate, and wbo may be ■»«»• correctly considered hit enemies, have issued and distributed a lying and oalumniottf sheet,. in which the public and private character of an opponenfc is assailed with unsparing virulence. Let me introduce the authors —an ex-County Councillor, ousted from hit seat for illegal practice*, a publio informer of doubtful antecedents, the Chair man of James Mackay's Committee, and a lawyer whose notoriety and moral (T) character were conspicuously established in a late disreputable affiliation ease. I ask you what could be expected from such a combination of worth ? Now, tbese reputable (?) creatures take up the cudgels' for Mr Mackay, and I ask yon to consider if a bull-dog courage is the only quality a candidate for your suffrages i^onhi possess ? (Tbii being the only one for vrhvJh ?t* k credited by these distinguished admirers and' partisan.'.) No one doubts Mr MaeVs.?'* courage, but what about his ad-' ninistrative talent, his horfesty, his aehiere- 1' ments as Native Lands Purchase Commissioner, bis influence with the Government, and his probity in his public and private relations? He acquired the right to mine for gold on this peninsula, and sold the miners by extending the goldfields boundary beyond the " diggers' camp "on Block 27. He imposed an exorbitant rental on the town allotments, and entered into partnership with a native chief to secure the imposition, he promised the pre-emptive right to original occupiers of allotments, bat neglected to fulfil the promise, he negotiated for the purchase of certain blocks, of land constituting the Obinemuri Goldfield, but never completed the purchase. He issued orders to storekeepers and gave promissory notes, but the former suffered the loss and many of the latter were never redeemed. He perpetrated the miner's right swindle at Mackaytowa, am suffered the odium lo rest upon his friend who patiently suffered as his scapegoat; and his vaunted [oournge kept a still tongue in his head when the supreme moment arrived to save that friend from disgrace. So [much for Mr Maokay and his, quondam friends. Mr Cadroan is " tooled " on the Thames by a motley crowd with a pseudo prophet as their leader r but I am astonished a being of such saintly proclivities should in the immi^ nent approach, of the minennium, take^so_ lively an interest in the affairs of mammon, and prominently associate himself with these: " infernal " mundane elections. His candidate it quite unworthy (from a worldly point of view) to represent any constituency in Parliament, being unfitted both by nature and; education. Let us weigh him in the balance: It is a notorious fact that in hit capacity as a County Chairman he dissipated both Governnent grants and local revenue by letting costracts to private friends without either plans or specifications, and supplied timber from his own mill for the Tiki Bridge at en additional cost of eight shillings per 109 feet. He is the nominee of an Auckland (to called liberal?) Central Committee, the sole survivor of which is an obscure individual yclept King, a touting mountebank. Tn his private relations, Mr Oadman is all that could bs desired ; as a public man, he is a failure; as a representative, he would be a spectacle. Mr Brodie't career on the Thames is well-: known, and bit publio acts will bear the strictest criticism. If he has, on one or two occasions^ failed to act with resolute firmness, it was to save a working man from ruin. As Chairman of the Waiotabi Highway Board, with a local revenue of some £40 or £50 per annum at his disposal, he succeeded in completing one of the best roads on the field. He obtained monetary assistance from the bank, and better ?tUI induced the Government to pay off a considerable overdraft. As Chairman of the County Council he cajoled the natives to break their most sacred tapu in the island, and take a road through it. By his taot and patience he has obtained many thousands for expenditure in the County in excess of the provisions mad,© in the Estimates. His missions to Wellington have been so uniformly successful as to obtain for him the soubriquet of the "Sturdy Beggar;" a title which proclaims his talent both as a delegate and r«|j^sentative, and of which he may feel proud. He pbsaessos the keenest common sense, a capacity to seize an oppertuuity when it i& presented, and the golden faculty of knowing when to be silent. His courage it of different order to Mr Mackay's, the moral largely predominating; but he is second to none in the possession of that Scottish pertinacity which seldom acoepts NO for an answer when he thinks it should be otherwise. ■■ I have sketched him faithfully, and I appeal to the electors, if a man who has given such proofs of capacity in these minor public offices could not well be entrusted with k the higher mission of representing an electorate whioh embraces so large an area of the Thames County, and with which he is so closely identified. Yours faithfully, Elbotob. Thb best test of the interest of a book is it capability of being read a second time, ditto for3sT*A-