THE BREAKWATER.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7977, 1 February 1897, Page 3

THE BREAKWATER.

[to the EDixoa.]

Sin, —You were very Biiocessful in ohampiouing Mr Douglas Mo Lean at tho recent election. Thore is no doubt that your pen secured not only hia return, but jhat of Oaptain Kussell and Mr Hunter. It thoreforebsoomes pertinent for me to now ask yon whether you do not feel rather sore over your success, seeing that you are rewarded by a shoepfarmer combination against the breakwater, the completion of which tha TamoßAPn favors ? There is no doubt, I think, about the combination. Take your hero, for instance. Ha said duriag tha election contest that ho was iv favor of oompletingthe breakwater. Possibly ha was. But circumstances alter eases, and ho ia now canvassing for Mr Oolaman, who is standing for election to the Harbor Board aa an opponent of the breakwater I like the attitude of the Chamber of Comraeroe. For years many of its members have taken to little interest in i; that they forgot to pay their subscriptions. Yesterday, when thero waa a chance to combine the sheepfarmer element in an attack upon the town, thoy all turn up to sing the praises of Mr Ooleman and to try to prevent i tha return of tho president. It «vas he who | for yeara worked to got for the Chamber | the right to appoint; a member. Who op- j posed the Bill to that end introduced in tho j Houbo ? Who but Oaptain iSussell and Mr \ tirmoad. Now the Chamber has the right, the same element seeks to oust Mr Brown in favor of Mr Coleman. Do thesa people j think that because thoy have the three Kawko's Bay seats (thanks to the misdirected zaal of the editor of the Daily Tkmqbufh) that they can do what they pleaso ? If so they are mistaken. As for Mr Handtmann, and his cheap sneer about Mr Brown representing tho ehopkeepare, this comas very questionably from one who U practically Mr Ooleman'a employe, and who appears to have forgotten that he {Mr Sandtmann) himself waa once in the ranks of the shopkeepers, inEunedin, and was not overwhelmingly successful at that.—l am, &0., Advavoe Nafibb. January 30th, 1897.