NON SUM QUALIS ERAM.

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

NON SUM QUALIS ERAM.

(To the Editor.)

Sin, — Mr. Pyke's thanks to the mon who were good to him r.nd true, in } our last i>sue, is about the most amusing pi oe o!' news which has appeared in yov.v columns for Rome time. He ivgrcls (it is to be hoped he was not dh?olved in tears) about undue influ'wes — poor man — and has probably i'or^ott a the principal clerical ia3uor.p!\s which procured for him so uuch l.ir^er a number oi plumpers ii v.v.iiu .v.ii his opponents obtained. Then the conchie-ion of this address is the most awusirg of all. Did you ever before hour of a candidate congraiuUtiuu- a c msiitucney on rejecting him? This letter of thanks to his friends wn.s evidently written by Mr. Pyko while he was still smarting under his defeat, and perhaps just making the discovery tliat it is nbsu.'d to rely on the opinion and advice of flatterers, whose real influence is in the inverse proportion to their "oci"! ."Hndinr. Tf Mr. Pvke should at" I . in ennvnssfor a s^at in Parliament, he will no doubt, from the result of this election, see the wisdom of addressing the electors without the uic! of satellites. — I am, &c, Independent.