Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1115, 16 August 1879, Page 2

Correspondence.

(Our correspondence columns arc impartially open to all, but toe do not in any tvay identify ourselves with opinions expressed therein.) Sin, — Bearing in mind the last election for Waipa, I be.?, as Parliament is about to be dissolved, to offer to the consideration of the electors, the folio wing extract from the " Australasian," of 12th Julylast : — " Mr H. R. Williams gave notice in the Assembly, of his intention to move the adoption of the famous declaratory resolution now on the journals of tfy}

House of Commons, namely, ' That it is highly criminal in any Minister or Ministers, or other servants under the Crown, directly, or indirectly to use the powers of office in tho election of representatives to serve in Parliament, and an attempt at such inflnenoo will at all times be resisted by this House, as aimod at its own honor, dignity, and independence, as an infringement of tho dearest rights of every subject throughout the empire, as tending to sap the basis of its constitution!' "-—lam, Thomas Wilson, Te Koao, 11 th August, 1879. &

Sir, — Will you kindly say whose duty it is to take action with resrard to a person illegally sitting on a Highway Board; also, the correct means to be adopted for the removal and punishment of the offender ? — Yours, Miller, Ngaruawahia, 11th August.