THE RANGITIKEI SEAT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3054, 26 November 1908, Page 5

THE RANGITIKEI SEAT.

AN -ACCUSATION AND A CHALLENGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, November 25. When Mr Remington, candidate for Rangitikei, addressed the electors at Eastbrook, a suburb of Wanganui on the Thursday before the first ballot he attacked Mr George Hutchinson for the remarks that gentleman made when referring in the course of a speech to Mr HallJones and the High Commissionership. He (Mr Remington) spoke of the Bun Tuck scandal, and said he ' thought that should have sufficed Mr Hutchinson. On the following night Mr Hutchison, when addressing the electors at Opera House, dramatically referred to Mr Remington's criticisms, and concluded by reading a letter which alleged that Mr Remington had named and taken twenty pounds as a reward for his efforts in obtaining for one of his constituents the removal of a restriction on a native title. Mr Remington, speaking at Taihape on the night before the election said that if his committee was willing he (Mr Remington) was , quite willing if Mr Hutchinson would put down £75 for the election expenses to give him a chance of seeing who stood best with the electors of Rangitikei. Mr Hutchinson to-day wrote to Mr Remington accepting the challenge.