THE SOUTH WAIRARAPA NOMINATIONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1750, 1 August 1884, Page 2

THE SOUTH WAIRARAPA NOMINATIONS.

(to the editor.) Sir,—Mr Bunny made an exhibition of himself yesterday at Featherston. He took his licking badly and slung mud and dirt at one who, if judged by the standards which Englishmen take pride in setting up for themselves, are in every way his Buperior. First as to Mr G. Beetham and his brothers. By what rule of fitness and good taste was Mr Bunny entitled to drag their names upon a public platform in the manner he did. Let me tell Mr Bunny that these men as settlers and public men have been foremost in every good work. While he has been-well, to put it mildly - untrue to himself, untrue to his friends, and has in every way abused the sympathy to which it is well-known he owes a large proportion of the votes which he polled on the day of election. Mr Bunny also accused Mr Cooper in tha', gentleman's absence of false interpretation in the matter of some' questions put to him by a native at his Maryborough meeting. Mr Cooper is a neighbor and friend of mine, and I take leave to tell Mr Bunny possesses a long record of honesty and integrity which enables him to-treat with contempt the j malicious and baseless assertions of all ]

such contemptible place-hunters uaj himself. Mr Bunuy fumes about bribery an'^corruption; sneers about frozen meat;and butter pats, and poses generally as:the working man's representative: "Bribery and corruption are nasty things to talk about, and should be put a stop to whenever found i'fi existence, but I have a shrewd suspicion that Mr Bunny's career could turniah as forcible exampW of both inthe shape of unfulfilled■'pr'o'mifl'es and " othevwise aa that of any other public. ; man in Now Zealand;' I" would refer' your readers to Mr Bunny's famous powder, and shot pamphlet to the natives as the most recent;example. Mr Bunny, as the working man's representative—save the mark,— Has he ever been a working man himself or found a day's work for a working man out of all the land he still cumbers in the Wairarapa? Has he hot, in fact, lived on the fat salaries and commissions extracted by taxation from the working man's earnings ? Has he not also persistently opposed the very Government which gave the working man a vote except when it suited him to change his coat at Thorndon? Let the working men have their own representative by all means ifjhey think their present one unfit, but away with such a sham as Mr Bunny. I regret the necessity for penning.this letter, but I could not stand by and. listen to Mr Bunny's cowardly 'accusations without .putting him in his proper place. ' ' _ ,lam, <k, , . .',•■;•. :■'.. Settler. " P.S.—I had' nearly forgotten Mr Bunny's statement about the seventynine Maori votes, and that only one of them was recorded for himself'. Will Mr 'Bunny explain to us how he arrived at his knowledge about these votes. What about the secrecy'of the ballot after this. He also raves about the abolition of the Maori vote because he says they went against him on this occasion. Was he not a representative when the Bill was passed giving them the franchise ? Has he not on successive elections wooed their sweet favors, and promised them unlimited sugar and blankets if they would only vote for him I Has he not boasted through , his friends during the present contest that they were going to give him a block vote, But, alas! The seventynine grapes have all turned sour except one little plum. Away with them! Off the roll with them! What fools we do make of ourselves when we get angry!