THE MEN WE WANT.

Evening Star, Issue 7247, 25 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE MEN WE WANT.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,—l quite agree with Mr Downie Stewart that many of the inhabitants of New Zealand are greatly to blame for the depression we are feeling. If they did not return Mr Downie Stewart and other vacillating gentlemen to manage the affairs of the State, matters would be far different. The people of Dunedin would do well by following the example shown by the electors of Port Chalmers—choose earnest, consistent men, such men as Mr James Mills (if you can get them), Mr Keith Ramsay, Mr James Allen, Mr R, H. Leary, or others of that stamp. I find that the electors of Canterbury intend to discard the political fossils, and return such men as Mr P. Cunningham. It is a pity they don’t bring out Mr Henry Blackwell for Kaianoi. It is men like those we want, in order to raise the Colony from its low,' yet sinking state, to tht high and exalted position which is its natural doe; and in the near future, if her affairs are properly managed, that will be done, but never by vacillating men.—l am, etc, Thos. H. Uodge. Port Chalmers, June 22,