WAIRARAPA SOUTH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 908, 25 October 1881, Page 2

WAIRARAPA SOUTH.

To the Editor of the Wairaiiapa Daily. Greytown, October 22. Silt,—Messrs Bmiuy, Boys, and Buchanan have declared their intention of standing for eleotion to Parliament forthis district, but there are a great number not at all in favor of the three " B's," and would give their support to Mr Pharazyfl, . who has expressed his intention of standing- This gentleman, howeveriuts not yet published his address, and political interest is concentrating around those who have. Of the addresses published hut little cau be thought by the writers. Bunny says notpf; he has monopolised the seat and seolired the plums for the last fifteen years; therefore the seat is his, not the people's. Mr Boys raises no class cry, but says as the large holders already have their representative, the small people should have theirs. This is not setting the small against the large class, of course, but at any rate it displays great ignorance or a desire to mislead, ns he knows, or should know, that a small holders' candidate may be also returned for the North. Mr Boys is extremely careful in his address not to say anything definite except that he sincerely wishes the electors to vote tor him.

Mr Buchanan is more cautious than Mr Boys, He has but few past services to recommend him; he relies-and perhaps not in vain—upon his well-known desire and hard work to establish ful local industries in our midst His proposed watchward of "united "Waivavapa will find an echo in every wellwisher of the district, and his sentiments re the natives will meet with unqualified approval. His action when Chairman of tho Miisterton Highway Board will also commend him to the favor of electors.

Those three gentlemen have thus nothing very convincing as to their abilities to place before- as far as their past is concerned, though when they make their speeches at the forthcoming meetings they will no doubt he able to show very clearly what they wo'ild do- if they could—in the future.

In past election contests one candidate at least has always placed a really statesmanlike address before the electors—lias always expressed sound progressive views and a policy winch would, if carried out, materially benefit the working man, and in fact every settler in the colony. 1 venture to say that were Mr Phaimyn returned his opinions would cany more weight and his judgment he treated with more respect than that of any other candidate who lias ever appeared before Wairarapa electors. He fhowed us the stuff he was made of when he was returned to the Provincial Council. He was a power in the Council the moment he entered it, and would have occupied the highest position in it had it. not been abolished, Mr Bunny will say Mr Pharazyn was checking him in doing good work, but those who know are well awyre that Mr Pharazyn was checking him from sqandering the estate of the public to benefit himself and friends.' Mr* Pharazyn's ability was recognised by the Government in appointing him a Royal Commissioner, and everyone knows, or should know, the immense amount of good and the great saving to the cjd£| that Commission effected. A of talk and writing has been indulgewi over the money received by Mr Pharazyn for this duty. But it has been shown that he received the same as the others, viz., two guineas per day. Had he sent the cheque back, the Treasmy could not have received it. Of course none of the other Commissioners thought of doing soch a thing; they quietly pocketed their cheques, and in the words of Mr Bunny (after voting himself £4OO honorarium—double allowance), " Wouldn't you have done the same'?"

Mr Pharaxyn, as Chairman of the County West, member of County East, Chairman of the Wairarapa Hospital, President of tho Pastoral Society, member of a rabbit district, a large employer of labor, and a man who has settled more families on the land than any other two landowners in the Wairarapa—has proved himself a thorough practical, far-seeing, hard-working public man, and I sincerely hope ho will come forward and that electors will carefully (onfaist him from a public point of view with any other candidate in the field, and then vote according to the result, which is certainV to bo in liis favor. Yours, &c, Greytown Elector.