MOUNT BENGER ELECTION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 283, 3 July 1873, Page 6

MOUNT BENGER ELECTION.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — Your issue of the 19th contains a letter from G. Mackay, in which he states that fit an election meeting he distinctly stated "that he neither promised nor would support Mr. Beighton." While admitting that Mr. Mackay made such a statement at the meeting to which he refers, 1 unhesitatingly assert that at a moating of the Progress Committee held previous, and presided over by Mr. Mac'c^y, such meeting resolved to suppori :i local candidate approved of by the Committee, and Mr. Mackay supported such resolution. That the Committee then unauimouuly requested Mr. Beighton to become a candidate, and Mr. Mackay specially asked Mr. Beighton to consent to stand. How Mr. Gr. Mackay can reconcile his conduct on that occasion with his subsequent actions, I am at a loss to know, unless I concur with Mr. Warden Borton, who in the course of the recent mysterious private investigation held in the Roxburgh Court House, asserted that it was cruel to question any slight discrepencies in Mr. Mackay's evidence, inasmuch as he was possessed of a defective memory. I will conclude by charitably supposing such must be the case. — Yours, &c, A Member, op the Progress Committee. Roxburgh, June 27th.