MR. MACANDREW.
(To the Editor.)
Sir, — Will you allow me a space in your columns to insert the following incidents enacted by the late Superintendent, for the consideration of the electors of the Goldfields, before recording their votes at the incoming election, for Superintendent of Otago. If- they want to see the delegated powers of the Goldfields conferred on the Excecntive, vote for Mr. Macandrew. If y o\\ want to see the Courthouses locked up, and'all papers connected with mining and other matters impounded for several months, to the great inconvenience -of the mining community, vote for Macandrew.
If you want a "Jack of Trumps" appointed at Clyde to pay all moneys due at the time of the said lock-up, and not having the wherewith to do it, vote for Macaudrew.
If you want to see every Warden of the Goldfields dismissed from the service, from the top of the Knobby Ranges downwards, vote for Macandrew.
If you want to see the Superintendent of Otago declare his house a goal for thirty days, and appoint his wife a jailor, vote for Macandrew. — If you want to see John Smith of Melbourne found, and the moneys restored to the credit of Otago, vote for Macandrew.
If you want the Superintendent of Otago to be told in the House of Representatives that his election would have been cancelled, but that he had it in his power to unlock the prison doors of the province, so that the dear little creatures of inmates might call and see the contents of every diggers tent, vote for Maeandrew.
If you want to see a few new-fledged Wardens appointed for thirty days, without any savey, and without any pay, vote for Macandrew .
If you want to see Railways made in Otago, and the work let to sub- contractors, such as Pickham Packham, on the Port Chalmer's Railway, who filed his schedule a few weelcs ago, vote for Macandrew. If you want to see the half-crown dodge applied, which licks the M'Cormick of Melbourne notoriety hollow, vote for Macandrew.
Fellow diggers, last but not least bear in mind there was something like £1200 shut in the public chest some few years ago, I do not like to mention it, but I leave that for the consideration of the electors of Otago. — Yours &c., A Common Digger. Switzers 28th, Jan. 1871,
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 157, 9 February 1871, Page 5
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393MR. MACANDREW. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 157, 9 February 1871, Page 5
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