FROM MR RAFFERTY.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1127, 25 November 1873, Page 2

FROM MR RAFFERTY.

(To the Editor oj the Westport Times.) Sir,—Will you be good enough to allow this note to be published, in order to correct some errors published in your last issue of the Times, respecting questions put by me to the different candidates at the Masonic Hall on the 19th instaut, which are as follows: First question : —Mr Shapter, will you endeavour, if elected, to get that obnoxious by-law rescinded from remov. ing drift-wood from the beach 1 Second question:—Mr Fisher, if elected, will you endeavour to ascertain what is the reason that Mr Shallcrass is receiving the pay of a police inspector and nothing for him to do here or in this district but going to his bed every night in Nelson ? Third question:—"Will you also ascertain what is the reason that there is not a better display of Engineering in Westport; as you have juslj heard from Mr Hume that a triangle in the shape of three sticks of wood had been placed in the river to stop the mean current water. Is not engineering in the shade of a fog in Westport ? This question was not amalgamated to the previous question, it was distinctly separate. Fourth question:—Mr Lloyd, if elected, will you be faithful to your trust? Fifth question : —Mr Lloyd, is it true that you applied to Mr o'Conor for a situation as clerk ? The whole of the foregoing questions were put by me on the 19th instant, and I now certify solemnly that there was not one word more than what is , now written in this note. I also asked several persons who were at the meeting and all agree with me.—l am, <fec, John Rafferty. [lf mis-reported Mr Rafferty has but himself to blame for his incoherent utterances.—Ed. W. T.]