PROSTITUTION OF OFFICE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 153, 12 January 1871, Page 5

PROSTITUTION OF OFFICE.

"We (" Bruce Herald ") understand his Honour the Superintendent is circulating the insulting messages he addressed to the Council, and the address with which he closed the late session. These are being transmitted to the electors, manifestly for electioneering purposes. They ; o franked by his Honour as being or public service only ; they are enclose a Jn^on^ velopcs .supplied at the ospe-nse ot rhe\^ province. . ' 1 • .^-...iiout ie ""bus making use of tiie pii'V ? money to f urtb.ee his election, to > >ance his candidature. I.i this fair'? Is this honest? Has his honour any right to frank what is in reality a private communication ? Has he any right to make use of the Government stationery to subserve his own private personal ends ? Will he accord a similar advantage, a like privilege to any other candidate for the superintendency ? We shall take notice whether he shall advertise, in the ensuing issue of the " Gazette," that any candidate for the superintendency will be supplied at the Superintendent's office with any number of duly franked envelopes, by means of through post to any part, or to every part of the province. By-the-bye, who has paid for the printing of the messages and the address which his Honour has been circulating ? Has this expense come out of " contingencies," or has Ms Honour borne this expense ? His Honour has sometimes gone in for retrenchment — why not bear his own private political expenses, instead of saddling these upon the province ? But in this, as in many other matters, his Honour has bidden adieu to consistency. " What suits me," is now his Honour's only rule, no matter whereunto it may tend.

The " Daily Times "refering to the relative merts of the two candidates for the Superintendency, writes as follows respecting Mr. Macandrew :' — However multifarious may be the topics which Mr. Eeid and Mr. Macandrew may refer to in their summary of principles, their views on the question of the Financial policy of the General G-overninent only will decide the votes of this latter portion qf the electors. With regard to it, there are many points on which explanation will be sought. It will naturally be asked, did Mr. Macandrew strive his utmost in the Assembly to obtain a modification of the scheme more favourable to Otago ? "What is the value of the verbal pledge which the Grovernment have given, that the construction of public works under the Grovernment scheme will not be entertained witMn those provinces which are not in a position to pay the interest upon the amount required for the construction of such works ? It is still in the power of the electors, through their representatives in the Assembly, to bind the Grovernment of the day with the force of law to the fulfilment of this pledge ? Mr. Macandrew's one has already been given. With him, those who do not coincide with, his views upon the Government scheme are opposed to progress, ai\c{ ". tho reason why the Provincial Co i mc it refused to give effect to hispolujv; ,as on account of the personal ci' -&-o vhich a majority of its members "x-^vards himself. He, no doubt, i v- V':e advantage of playing the ' inp v■ ; an ' during his last election, and | likely that he will try to assume '^ une character during the present