HARBOR BOARD ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 9123, 2 May 1893, Page 2

HARBOR BOARD ELECTION.

The ejeutjon of a inember to represent Port Chalmers on the lhuW ]io«rd, y/hich was held yesterday, resulted as follows ; J. R. Monson 100, A. Thomson 104. Mr Monson mentioned that in the event of l)r Drysdale returning he would be quite willing to resign in his favor. Mr Thomson said : I confess to a feeling of disappointment at the result of to-day's election,'but yours is the verdict, and I bow to it VitJi lne best grape I cail< had serygd yqy jof years -past in the Harbor Board {o [jig hosf; 9f my powers, and felt, as if ! hud a claim |fl iJift jjosjtjon if. I jvished it; but circumstanced aitc* f.iJSgfy <j»d as mine are somewhat changed, I need net lie astonished when defeat comes—more especially when' it is brought about by the keen opposition of n company so powerful as the U.SA, represented; as ft ljatj been, in the persons of Ilia leading officers in that nonr cern. I will say this, however, that their action is the biggest tactical blunder possible. Surely after such victories as driving from our seas the fleets of the Ellis and Huddart-Parker lines, they Jfljght have been satisfied to leave tjje harbors "ajone. With representatives in the Upper"lfQui§'&"itd representatives in the Lower If Quse'j' they have been content without a lW"linee on 'the Harbor Board; but no, the whole weight of their Inliuenoo must be thrown into this, and hence the result. The contest has not cost me a shilling, and on that account I have nebbing to regret. But what, gentlemen,'is the explanation of this fierce fight ! It must be looked for elsGU'here than on the surface. Jtia simply part and par.oel of a movement' {.ftgi may- be 'noted from Auckland to Stewart Isjand! 'llieVe |s'a' wonderful sensitlvoness hi all the cobstltuejiues ajl through our colony. If it is an election for a chairman in an education board or a school committee it is most hotly contested by the politicans of every shade, and it dpes just'soem as if the practical legislation of bur Liberal 6oVo'rifaneui htd excited hopes and aspirations 'tuftotigst tiio jiepple that find expression in that OxoeeuTng, sensitiveness of'which" I speak, iind that has led yp £q the £een contea* of -to-day. -I hayc again to thapk'you for'the spontaneous suwport you have given me, and which earned ntejo cjose $ victory- '