THE COMING ELECTION FOR WAIPA.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1117, 21 August 1879, Page 2

THE COMING ELECTION FOR WAIPA.

Sib, — How is it that we cannot get a man of some rank and substance to stand for Waipa ? One, I mean, that does not go in for the sake of the 200 guineas hono« rarium. I daresay that it suits a person very well who finds it does not pay to turn to politios, but I question very much if it suits the country he mis-represents a3 well. I see, by the papers, that Mr McMinn is about to . come out again, which I, as well as a good many more, consider a direct insult to the electors. If bis conscience was so tender that he could not support the Grey Government, when they were likely to be turned out, how is it that it was not at all tender when the election was going on and they put him in. I think, for one, that a nominee, put in by a party to yote, as he was, should stick to those he inlists under. Begining his career as a Conservative, to get into the House, he turns a Radical, but finding he ie not taken up, and patted on the back by them as much as he thinks his shining abilities deserve, he turns again, and is now a conservative, and his former frienda and patrons are all that is bad. Is this the sort of man we want? A modem Vicar of Bray, who was always the religion of the government in power, and so managed to keep Vicar of Bray, through four dim'erent governments, both Catholic and Protestant.

Why do not the electors get up a good requisition to a man of some standing, such as Captain Bockett, Major Jackson, or Mr Wm. Scott, &c. We want a man who will stick to his colours, not a trimmer, is the opinion of yours, &c, A. Waipa Settled.

P.S. — Will any one of those now in the field (to show their disinterestedness) promise to hand over their honorarium to the public library or local charities, as J. S. Macfarlane does. If so, I will vote for him..

Sib,— l would suggest, for the consideration of the extreme Grey party, in the Waipa, the construction of an automaton, made to go by some system of clockwork. Nominate, and elect it, and hand the key to Sir George Grey, who could wind it up and use it, on occasions of " great pith and moment."

It appears, from recent events, that even in the nearest approach to a nonentity of the human speoiea, nature -will assert itself, if only to assume the power of locomotion, and walk out of the House. You might chain an automaton. — lain, &c,, True Progress.