MR RUSSELL'S MEMORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2345, 21 July 1887, Page 2

MR RUSSELL'S MEMORY.

TO THE EIUTOK. Slit, —A sense uf duty and fail-play bids me have a slap at the Mayor uf Cambridge. Has Mr (Iwynneth lived so lung in ignorance of the frailty of human nature, and is he so unkind as to condemn a man because he cannot satisfy his (Mr Civynnoth's) demand by explaining what was spoken twelve months ago. I have little knowledge uf Mr (iwynueth, or Mr Russell, still I cannot but assert that the answer given by Mr Russell re the conversation he had a year ago with a Mr Could about borrowing £10,000,000 was one that was compatible with a man of truth. Few, indeed, are the men, the Mayor of Cambridge included, who can recollect the exact words spoken in conversation a year ago, and I say so without fear of contradiction. Statements made in publicbeforeaconc iur.se of people are generally the outcome of much thought, and whatever is so uttered has a fixity on the speaker’s memory. That is what Mr Owynneth in a slang way terms a claptrap electioneering speech. However I hope the electors of Waikato will be ab; ■ to judge which of the two candidates will suit them best, and return him, without living canie i away by the uncharitable writings of the Mayor of Cambridge. It is a m ■-* unusual thing for the Mayor to enter into politics in the manner Mr Cwyuneth ha< done. It shows very bad taste,' and would n-.t be tolerated in any other place than Cambridge.—! am, yours truly. Fair. Flay. Te Awamutu, July 10th.