The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1884.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1735, 14 July 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1884.

Mr Meredith dragged the second red-herring across the scent on Saturday evening by bringing forward the County question. Is the County question a legislative question or is it even a local question affecting the residents at Kurupuni ? No! it is neither one nor the other, but it is a side wind introduced to burke the free discussion of larger and more important questions. In a few weeks time a general County election will take place, We are prepared to fight the County question then fairly and squarely. " You had better put this red herring back into your pocket, Mr Meredith, You know yon were ousted from the chairmanship of the Masterton Road Board the other day." If the County question is a proper subject to introduce a Koad Board one is admissible, We will ask you therefore in your turn how it was that you forfeited the confidence of your own Road Board 1 We can tell if you cannot! .

" Will Mr McOardle poll as many votes as Mr Renall did three years ago" is being asked generally. We know that Mr McCardle thinks that he will poll almost every name on the roll except that of the Editor of the Wairarapa Daily, but this is nothing " where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." Mr Renall is decidedly the abler man of the two I He is a better speaker and he has mixed anions; leading public men, an advantage which Mr McCardle does not possess. But then Mr McCardle has a more pleasing manner than Mr Renall, He promises everything to everybody and takes trouble to conciliate the electors. He has more self-control than Mr Renall, and for this reason we expect to see him poll a few more votes tban Mr Renall obtained, but not a great many more, We are never afraid to frankly expwss our convictions, and we expect Mr Beetham to be returned by a large majority.

" And who, in all the district, benefit more largely from the Hospital than Mr Beetham and his friends? Is it not from Messrs Beetham Bros, stations that nearly all the accidents comef writes our local contemporary, who evidently has not studied the subscription list of the hospital for the past year, or Le would have observed that whether nearly all the accidents come from Messrs Beethams' stations —as a matter of fact they do not, out of thirty-three cases during the past year, but three came from Messrs Beethams'—the subscriptions come from them. Messrs Beethams' stations pay their way handsomely for hospital accommodation Our contemporary is all wrong in his facts about the Masterton Hospital, but this does not matter. His object is to show that the Beethams are selfish m their contributions to the Hospsital. Now everyone who knows anything about the affairs of t-he Hospital are aware that the Messrs Beetham and their employees have been liberal in a marked degree for years past. Durimg the year which has just closed, out of a total subscrption list of £239, no less than £ib came from the Messrs Beetham and their employees exclusive of Mr G. Beemiam's donation. It is among Mr McCardle's supporters that the black hospital sheep are to be found. We could indicate a large flockowner who is an enthusiastic supporter of Mr McCardle, and who, though he has contributed one or more patients to the Hospital, and has, it is believed, received subscriptions from his

employees towards the institution persistently refuses to hand over a single penny piece towards the Institution, or to give an account of the monies which he has received on its behalf. Our contemporary by a little inquiry will find what we state is absolutely correct. The subscription list to the Hospital for the past year will shortly be published, It is now to be seen at the office of the Secretary, and anyone taking the trouble to examine it will find that for many years past the best friends of the Masterton Hospital have been Messrs Beetham,

It is of course a great pity that the contest should be fought out in Wairarapa North on petty personal grounds, but if Mr McOardle's friends will take it on such miserable issues there is no help for it but to meet them. Whether the fight be on large questions or on little ones Mr Beetham's iriends are quiteable to hold their own.

It is said that a certain notorious non-elector is hired by Mr McOardle's friends to disturb Mr Beetham's meetings. It is time if this be the case that the police were called in to suppress this disturber. Masterton is getting a bad name tor larrikinism and ruffianism,

It is gratifying to notice that Mr 6. Beetham secured the show of hands at the nomination to-day by a large majority. In 1881 when Mr Renall opposed him he was less successful.