CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2704, 19 September 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor,; Sir,—l must take exception ■to the miserable attempt of your Tinui correspondent to discredit Birkett's as a polling place, , I recognise, the expression "come to Tinui to see the fun," I think your correspondent knows as well as anyone that Birketts has often been spoken of as a site for a township; thatjt is tbe legitimate cntre for the Blairlogie, lea, Langdale, Koliewai, and. lesser.runs; aud we shall quite understand- the reason if votes from these are recorded elsewhere. To ask

S.IIIIU lifiy electors to. wade through the slush between this and Tinui to finable

one candidate to say to the other '' I told you ko" is too much, yet this is what is l>» in« done. A decree hnß si.iiii'fni'th 'o all tliu faithful that Bir-

ken's is to lie iioyuottrd but I, as one of (lie faithless, mean to voto there. I think your coriespondent's suggestion that the political faith of the men on a station in the neighborhood of' Birketts is founded on childish spite, is not . very complimentary to those; men to say the least.' I wonder your correspondent even allows that there is a .station in the neighborhood of Birkett's and yet th are are a few smallones, 1 suppose your correspondent only believes in wappers. I am &c„ Henry Eldf.ii. Langdale, 17 th Sept., 1887.

(To tho Editor.) Ha 1 ha! Mr Hogg 1 8o you did not like your opponent being present at your up country meetings. Well it must have been rathor awkward for you. Stopped you giving him a slating behind his back, and drawing on your imagination, If you' were the man you profess to be, you would court the presence of your political oppouents, and enter into debates with.them, and then the electors would be able to judge whether you were a star of the first, magnitude, or only a small meteor that is dazzling the political world for a short space. Yours (ko., 51 IKE. Tinui, Sopt. 1". NEGLECTED ELECTORS. [To the Editor.]

Sir,-My mate and myself are sadly aunoyed through Mr Hogg passing us by tho other day on his election stampede. If he could travel to Oahonga to meet a very small number of electors, he might have taken the trouble to hold forth to the sixty or siventy voters that Mr Hawkins and himself told the Returning Offices would record their votes at Birkett's. Yours, &o. Bushman.