MESSRS BUNNY AND BEETHAM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 242, 19 August 1879, Page 2

MESSRS BUNNY AND BEETHAM.

(To Ik Editor of tk Wairarapa Daily.) Sir,—l have read with much pleasure, your leader in Saturday's issue, bearing upon the three candidates who seek the honor of representing this very important j and wealthy district in the new Parliament. I can, and I believe so will every elector who has had the pleasure of Mr Beetham's acquaintance, endorse your opinion " that he has faithfully served his constituents, sparing neither time nor trouble, in season or out of season, to gain an advantage whether small or great for the district he has represented," and therefore has a very strong claim indeed upon the electors for a seat in the new Parliament. But, sir, I think that our old and tried representative of more than fourteen years' standing—a man who had served the district faithfully for many years before Mr Beetham, has equally as strong a claim for re-election. There is not a bridge or road that came into existance prior to the abolition of Provinces, which cannot bear testimony to the zeal and energy of Mr Bunny in advancing the district he represented. He wa3 also the first mover for procuring the Wairarapa Yolunteers their land scrip, and many a settler can now testify as to the benefit conferred upon them by the Volunteer Land Scrips Act, lam one of the many who attended in the Masterton Town Hall early this year to hear an account of the stewardship of our RepresentativesMessrs Bunny and Beetham—and I then heard from the lip 3 of those gentlemen that they were thoroughly unanimous on every measure pertaining to the advancement and benefit of the Wairarapa, and as an elector I am not aware that anything has since transpired that would warrant me in believing otherwise. I assure you, it does not matter to me whether Messrs Bunny and Beetham, are admirers of Sir George Grey, or Sir William Fox. The policy proposed by Sir Julius Vogel in 1878 is the Policy of Progress, and any Government that fails to carry it out—its days are numbered, It is truly gratifying that the candidates for the honor of a seat have identified themselves with this policy and as true liberals will seek the advancement of the district and Colony, The question therefore for the electors to decide on the hustings is that of nion not of measures. Surely, sir, I think we are in duty bound to re-elect the man who has served us for more than fourteen years, lam, Ac,, Elector, . [We fully admit Mr Bunny's claim on the district for past services, and if we placed Mr Beetham's claim as a stronger one, we did so, because during the past three yeais the latter gentleman, has, as a matter of fact, devoted more time and energy to the interests of the district i than his senior colleague.—Ed. W, D.] '