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Evening Star, Issue 7233, 8 June 1887, Page 4

forward honest man. had he the abilities even lorwwa non command a majority m MSSSfwVsfcgle session; and without a reduction (and a very material reduction) of members the same pernicious results will bo exnorienced in the new Parliament. P ? feel persuaded the country is ripe for a change. It is longing tor it, and it only wants an organisation to be set on foot m the direction X have indicated to find that, from the north to the south and from the east to the west, electors would be found to ially in overwhelming numbers round the unfurled banner, with its motto “Reduction of Members. I will not add more to the present letter, but may, with your leave, return to the subject ; meanwhile, could His Worship the Mayor not be requisitioned to call a public meeting to consider the situation without regard to thd claims of any special candidature. The every-day growing pitiable condition of our working classes and settlers, and indeed the almost unbearable strain upon all classes of the community in a country teeming with valuable wealth and capabilities, is surely justification sufficient for a movement in the direction indicated. Why is the country in such a deplorable condition ? No bad harvests, no epidemics, no ruthless wars nor devastating a torus, nothing but bad government.—l am, etc., ° Diogenes. Dunedin. June 7-