NEWCASTLE RIDING.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 996, 9 November 1878, Page 2

NEWCASTLE RIDING.

Sik,— Woe ! "Woe ! 'Twer better to have been a resident of Chorazin or Bethsaida, Tyre or Sidon, than a Waipa settler. Poor, patient long- suffering Wsiipa.. Electors, take heed of the warning- given you by " Newcastle Elector " and " X. Y. Z.," and repent, or, within a week, your backs shall be broken with a straw ! Mr R. R. Hunt aspires to a scat m your County Councial. "Wlio is Mr Huut * Is he au honorable man, an intelligent, clear headed, competent man of business, and capable of representing- you m the County Council? Why, yes, ho is all that, but is it not most disgusting that he should work for his living ? Is he a thorough gentleman, and gentlemanly m all his actions ? "Well, yes, save m one particular instance. He is mean enough to accept a salary for hi* services, and what a shabby lot of fel'ows must the Company be to pay him. " Has he any actual interest outside his salary, as Local Manager of the W.S.N.Co., m the Riding or County, asks • X.Y.Z.' " "What signifies it if he has or if he hasn't got " fifty acres" m "Whatawhata. It speaks woefully for the credit of the Riding, that the ratepayers should have to resort to such men as Mr Hunt, at the request of five employees of the Company, two of whom are low engineer fellows, with the names of thirty settlers judiciously intermixed. Away with Mr Hunt, wko neither drinks nor smokes, and who never had a public house. Hang the Company ! What do we want with steamers, when there is a man m Whatawhata who has got a cart ? Bona fide Waipa settlers, will you vote for a man who would, by his pernicious example, demoralise all the loafing vagabond m the County ? Does he not work for his living, lives m his own house, has a family, and accepts a salary, and does he not represent a Company which gives employment to half the inhabitants of Ngaruawahia, and to many m other townships of Waikato, and pay them? If we put this man into the Council, depend on it, he will never rest till he turns every vagabond into an honest man. And, so sure as figs is figs, he will do all he can to bring into force the Dog Act, and then what will become of such nameless, collarless curs as "Newcastle Elector," ".X.Y. Z." and Loafer. Ngaruawahia, Norember "i, 1878.