CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4441, 12 June 1893, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the W.D. Times.)

Sir,—ln your issue of Wednesday you have an article, insinuating that Mr Hogg, M.H.R., used certain backstair influence to get me appointed on the Masterton Cemetry Trust, and that Wesleyan pressure induced mo to withdraw. Lest anyone should be misled by your comments, allow me to say that so far as lam aware no backstnir influence was used, that I have never been anxious to figure on the Cemetery Trust, or any nominee body, and that had I known Mr Daniell was chosen by the Wesleyan body as their representative, 1 should not have allowed my name to be used. In the same issue is the report of a special meeting of the Trust at which MrPaytonmoveda resolution concerning myself, so obildisb, spiteful, and mendaoiouß.thatneitherof his colleagues would second it, and I think it stamps the mover beneath contempt. With regard to the Town Lands: Trust election, it is true I was defeated, but the reason is well known, I depended on being returned on account of my past services and resorted to no button-holiDg, whereas my opponents won the seat for their nominee by backstairs and family influences, having any quantity of conveyances and private interviewing. I have no great ambition to'figure on publio bodies, and if I cannot win a seat by fair and honourable, means, I shall always prefer to he on the losing side.—Yours, iSio,, '

E-E. Eros. [Mr Paytonls ' motion: was, neither

spiteful nor mendacious, it waß a simple statement of ah incontrovertible fact. The election for the Town Landa Trust was a fairly oontested one and Mr Eton was badly beaten. We understand Mr. Hogg admits having written' to the Government on behalf of Mr Eton. -Ed.W.D.T.|