SIR WALTER BULLER AND THE TE AROHA ELECTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2668, 23 July 1891, Page 2

SIR WALTER BULLER AND THE TE AROHA ELECTION.

Sir Wai.tbu BuLl.r.it previous to his departure from Cambridge, penned the following lettoranont the late election :—

Cambridge, Julyll, 1S!)L ■• T. M. Lawlor, Esq., Returning Officer, Te Arnha. Dear Sir, — The olection lioiiiß over, I fool that f might Dot to leavo the district willnmt convoying to you. in a snmi-ollicial way, iny Rousn of your uniform courtesy and impartiality. At our final interview before polling day, I told you.that, trusting to your .selection of impartial deputies, I should not appoint sciutineeir, at any of the polling placet:. I adhered to thin determination all over the electorate, although some of my committees objected strongly to this course. r prefeired, however, to trust to the honour and integrity of your appointees. .1 have had no occasion to regret this exhibition of ctinli'lence, except in the solitary cjsh of Cambridge, whore the gross, and, indeed bitter purtizauship of your deputy, Mr Charles Tuck, was the subject of veiy general comment. So far r.x I am concenter! the matter is nmv at an end, but 1 have throught it right, on public groundo, to bring it under your notice. I am Bending a copy uf this letter tu the Clerk of Writs, to the chairman of my Cambridge committee, and to Mr Chailes Tuck himself.—l am, &C, W.U.TKU L. Bl'LLKlt.

On the couteiitu of the foregoing letter becoming known, very general .surprise and indignation was expressed that Sir Walter should hnvo venteJ his disappointment at the result of the election on the unoffending head of Mr Tuck, a gentleman who, from his long experience of local government as clerk of tho Piako dn-nty, auri hi* thorough knowledge of the duties and responsibility attaching to tlio nllkn of returning oil!cor, is thn List man likely tn givo n-av to an oxhihitinn of partisanship. Tn fact, Mr Tuck was subjected to much " chading" on account of his roticcnce on matters pertaining ro the election, ho. usually talcing considerable interest in such events. As to Mr Tuck's c induct in tlio polling-booth, it was impossible to gut a more strict and impartial presiding ollicer. Surprise is also fell-that Sir Walter should so far forget his position as to make .such a baseless charge on thn eve of his departure from the district.—Herald.