OUR REPRESENTATIVE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 15, 5 July 1900, Page 2

OUR REPRESENTATIVE.

TO THB EDITOR. ."|fl Sir, — The appointment of ** r J^JH Duncan as Minister of Lands,~~*§B Major Steward, our Member, if #fl I passed by, has already excited oommid H this district, and both surprise and i^ H nation is expressed. How is it »h*i&B^B like Mr Duncan, inferior in every wiM Major Steward — ia manners, edßC*6|M intelligence, capability and power of deWM — should receive the preference ? JH Premier's pretension that Mr BaneSH knowledge of agriculture will bo especMß serviceable will not hold good, and *^^B as well apply to any ploughman. JB encouragement of settlement unaeFn||H able laws and the adjustment of grf«t*^H among Crown tenants are the moijjM portant matters connected with theijgg ■ ment, and these Major Steward is a*! H able to look after as Mr Duncan, fisf H is that Major Steward is so peril's^ H slighted? It was confidently txp^H by many that ho woald have baenctoM for the vacanoy in the Cabinet *h™j£^| Hall- Jones waß selected to occupy. are question! connected with tbif which it behoves us as a constituco^H carefully consider. It has been jH common talk for years that Major has been able to aoeompliah very any of bis ctnstituenta who bad R" et *^H or claims upon consideration, s-aa *^H ever the district has received has amoa^M only to what coald «carc«ly h*r« JH refused had Major Steward been & ty^M opponent of the GoTernment. other hand he has been an obedient,J^H we might b%j, % skrish follower <^H GoTernment. !■ he prepared *°_^^^B down and fellow at the heelt of r^^^B the same as he did to Mr John Mc&ep^B Aro we doing jastiea to ourselves stitueney, find aoting lor our own and interests in sending as our "FfffH tive a man who appears to baTe ,7|» personal foroo and allows hinjseif|^H treated in such a humilitating those in power ? If Major StewwoJM not mean to assert himself, it **^|H ma that we ought to aiiart ouraelr^^H I should like to htar what others tto^M it.— X am, £c, «t^B