To the Editor of the Evening Star.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4842, 16 July 1884, Page 2

To the Editor of the Evening Star.

Sw,'-—At- the present juncture it may not he innopportune t > remind the old identities of the district, and inform the hew chums, of the services performed by one of the candidates now in the field for electoral honors. I well remember, on one occasion in 1867, when the Gil^llau administration, assisted by Pat Dignan, Hugh Carleton, $nd a large majority, attempted to divert the fund appropriated , fos the construction of the Auckland and Drury Railway to. another purpose. After' the preliminary proceedings had been triumphantly paruidd by the majority, Y(m- iFraser and Wm. Swarisoh, with a resolution and tenacity which I have never seen equalled;' succeeded after eight hours' solid argument, in securing a count out. Any artist without the power of a Ho^aFth must have failed in an attempt to delineate the mingled expressions of astonishment and rage depicted in the faces of $h§ defeated majority. ; The destand made hy the iaiaority prevented the misappmation of £14,000, and, it may reasonably be expected'that the ojd mania still able to repeat a similar i performance when i called upon. — I am,«fcc. f Punch.