THE WAIKATO ELECTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2997, 29 September 1891, Page 3

THE WAIKATO ELECTION.

TO THK KlllTOlt. Srii.-Mr W. A. Murray niad.i some statements at Whatawlmta which I think should be more generally known,_ particularly an they tond tn show that this pimtleman is possessed (if more influence than ie usually suppled. The first in, that Mr JJryce should not havo tinned on him, as ik was mainly through his (Mr Murray s) instrumentality that Mr Uryce was first placed on the Government benches. Then again, in referring to the one-inim-one-vnte iu local elections, he said that he had comluuuicatod with tho Government, objecting to it, and that, ho believed, was why Col. TVaser hnd been instructed to move in the matter. The Pinko County Council may now take n back seat, for it i< quite evident that their oction has had notlune to do with it. Finally, in referring to the management of native lands, this influential Kontlemnn stated that, he bud supsjestcd to tho Government the perpetual leasing nf native lands, and wlmn recently in Auckland ho had been told at the land »th'ce that hia suKKestion was being " kept steiidily in view," and most probably wm-.ld bo the future native land policy of the colony. This is hard after tho fc'ooo spnnfc upnii Mossvs Reea and Co. and thoir native land commission. But does not all this communicatinK with tho Go\trnment anythinfr, particularly when taken in eonnection with acandidiito wiin insisthi upon (tailing under the fhff of independence?— I am, itc, A Waii-a Elector.