The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1884. THE SOUTH WAIRARAPA NOMINATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1884. THE SOUTH WAIRARAPA NOMINATION.

Rowdyism seems to have been resorted to in the Southern electorate as well as in the northern district! Mr Bunny in his nomination speech praised up our local contemporary and attacked the Wairarapa Daily and Wairarapa Standard. We do not mind his reference to our local contemporary, but when be asserted that the Daily and Standard had done their best to injure his cause, he stated that which was absolutely devoid of truth. Our Greytown contemporary and the Wairarapa Daily have been very gentle and forbearing with Mr Bunny, We have been silent about his faults and his shortcomings, perhaps too silent. Apparently Mr Bunny sticks at nothing! When he repeated to the electors the substance of a private conversation which had taken place between Mr Henry Anderson, the editor of the Standard, and himself, be was guilty of a most unscrupulous act, which indicated that he is unfitted for the high position which he seeks, and which lie forfeited three years ago by his own culpability. Mr Bunny should have appreciated our generous. silence, and not trusted to our maintaining it while he publicly mis-represented and abused us. It is but a few weeks ago that he sold his last chance for the South Wairarapa seat when he pledged himself to abandonit if theThorndon electors would give him their yotes, Newspaper correspondents, posted him then throughout the colony as one who came down to Wellington as an Opposition candidate, but who, finding the wind blew in a contrary direction at Thorndon, veered round, turned right about face and supported the Ministry. In the Wairarapa we were silent about these things, we were "to his faults a little blind," but if he persists in hoodwinking the electors it becomes our duty to refer to them. We never knew Mr Bunny to make so many mistakes as he has done in his present election campaign, and we feel bound to protest against the utter recklessness of his conduct,