MR McCARDLE'S MEETING AT KURIPUNI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1731, 9 July 1884, Page 2

MR McCARDLE'S MEETING AT KURIPUNI.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—A curious lapmlinguae occurred at the above meeting last night. Mr Russell, in advocating the claims of Mr McCardle as a representative for Wairarapa, North in opposition to Mr Beetham, said that ho (Mr McCardle) would bo much better than a gentleman. Your 3, &c, J. L. Fisher. To the Editor. Sir,—Any thinking person who carefully studies his newspaper cannot fail to be filled with wonder and astonishment that diseases still exist in our midst, When one reads of the miraculous cures of afflicted personsfroja consumption to corns-it is really to be deplored that suffering humanity oan be so deaf to the voice of the charmer. 3s Gd per bottle I It is only too true that people persist m being diseased, in spite of a thousand and one infallible remedies, and persist in dying, though cautioned not to " die in the house.' But what does all this mean? Simply that the whole matter is reproduced in politics. We have the diseased body pohtio aud tho countless remedies warranted to save the bleeding country, and yet the critter isn't saved and goes on Weeding | l am not writing in the interest of either of the present would-be saviours of this particular part of the country, but in the earuest hope that electors will ponder the matter well, and vote for a duly qualified physician in preference to one of the great army of quacks. All intelligent and respectable voters will support the old, tried, and trtsty as against the new, untried empiric, A Voter.

(to the editor.)

i i ? lß '^ regret thatMr George'Beetham's letter did not appear till the day Mowing the meeting on Friday night, as it oompels me to write what I would otherwiso have proved to Mr Beetham before the best and fairest judge of such matters, viz.: the tribunal of public opinion. Mr George Beetham, ex-M.H.R., commences his letter by denying that my dismissal was caused by refusal to allow Messrs Beetham and Buchanan and the clique to close one part of the district, so that they might benefit by it in their own. Well, I have placed my version before the public, let it judge I Mr Beetham also denies having, m conjunction with Mr Buchanan, hounded me out of the' Department but as ho oat'his. words'at the late meeting I mil pass that over,' Mr Beetham, in his letter, states that as a representative of tho_ district it is his duty to hear all complaints and bring them before the proper authorities. Granting his assertion to be correct, I would as who, in this instance, should he first have brought the complaint to? Was it not his duty, as a man and a gentleman, to first bring these complaints to me so that I might rather remedy them, or at least explain my position in the matter' Was it fair or manly to meet me day after day doing the everlasting shake hands' business while he was afr the'same time moving heaven and earth in conjunction with Mr Buchanan to effect my ruin? But Mr Beetham went further than this • he denied having any complaint against me. If Mr Beetham had followed the course usually adopted by upright men and asked me for my explanation before sneaking' off to the bactetiur entrance to the Government Buildings with his representations I could have proved to him that the fault was not mine, that scab was not eradicated sooner My representatjqnii tq heat} quarters' were not attended to until after I had received my walking ticket. Then the clearing of Crown Lands of scabby sheep was commenced and additional assistance rendered in the way of inspectors. Mr Beetham further state that officials when ordered from ono district to another have no right to demand reasons; quite true Mr Beetham, but there are exceptions to every rule, and my case was an exception I was ordered to go to another district because I you and one or two others like you had made it your speoial business to mak 0 a number of damaging statements, to, the head of my De partineut: statements'which you were "afraid fl come forward like a man and substantiate (not to sit on a Board as your wily frjen.d Mr Buchanan states) hut to give evidence before a Board I cqqld nqt goto another district andperformmy.duty satisfactorily while such charges are allowed to rest upon me; it was absolutely necessary for them to be cleared up, If I had gone to Nelson ft caw of my removal would soon have Mowed me and the first unfortunates that 1 had to enforce the provisions of the Aot against would have petitioned for mv meu.t that I had been removed from the Wairarapa owing to the unsatisfactory W° l had admi ™t»red the Act there, and they objected to my being ■

shuntod on to them. And doss anyone doubt what the result would have been ? I would have been dismissed after having gone, to tho expense of shifting my family, I therefore could not leave this district while Messrs Beethara and Buchanan's underhand charges rested on me, Had they come forward and given evidence in substantiation of their statements I would have given my rebutting evidence and willingly accepted tho verdict, It is therefore clear that in my particular case it was necessary both in tho interest of the public and myself that an inquiry should have taken place, and that my removal under tho circumstances was tantamount to dismissal; and noonowith ordinary intelligence would be silly enough to state otherwise.

Mr Beetham further says that in cases of dismissal of Civil Servants an enquiry is never refused. This is on a par with the rest of Mr Beetham's statements. To speak plainly it is not true, so far as the course adopted by tho present Government is concerned, as is instanced by Dr Hammund's case re the Wellington Hospital, whose hard case is almost identical with mine. I Mr Beetham further quotes figures to show I that by closing tho northern district his clique were injured, as he has imported 12,000 sheep from tho north during tho last twelve months. Quito true; but I have been out of the department ten months, and when he and his canny friend, were so long agitating for my ruin, freezing was only in its inception, and no one knew that Hawke's Bay would not freeze its own Btock instead of selling it to the speculators; so that statement goes for nothing. In conclusion I must express my thanks to Mr Beetham for his kind offer to present my petition if he is returned again to Parliament. I cau woll fancy what fun this would be to him. I would not be surprised if in his anxioty to Retrte justice l he actually a,sked for & special committee to report upon it, tho said committee to consist of irreproachable and altogether above BUBpicion Mr Geo. Beetham and his MephistophelesMrW. C. Buchanan, with Mi' Joseph Payton as confidential seoretary. Howover, iu the meantime I lsave the public to judgewhether I have spoken the truth or not, and I reiterate that Messrs Beetham and Buchanan took the bread from my family because I did not comply with the wishes of the clique, and if they are able they will servo any poor man in a similar manner it he dares to oppose them, I charge them with having established a reign of torror over the civil servants of the district, and further, t assert that my case is not the only one. Mr Beetham has by. his action almost caused the ruin of another Government officer in this district, and would have ruined him .too, but the misrepresentations were too palpable to permit it. Yours, &c, W. A. P. Sutton.