DUNEDTN SOUTH ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 12674, 30 November 1905, Page 4

DUNEDTN SOUTH ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Your supplied report of my meeting on the Reclaimed Ground yesterday states that "the following resolution was carried unanimously that Mr Stewart be thanked for his address, but that this meeting have complete confidence in Mr J. P. Arnold, who is a Labor member and an old shopmate." 1 he. real facts are that after I had finished speaking, and answered nevcral questions, somoone in the audience moved a resolution as above. No on* seconded the resolut.on, and some other person called out "There is no seconder to that." I then stated that I knew I was in what might be called the enemy's cajnp, but I was perfectly certain that my hearers were fair-minded enough to listen to both sides of t&e question., and that if they were satisfied wi'Ji their present member they were entirely right in standing bv hiiu, and I would bo content to abide by their decision, There wae a very distinct round of hand clapping, and the" meeting broke up in the most friendly fashion. Ycm will s.e, therefore, that so far from the motion being carried it was not even secondi-d. And whatever the political opinions of my audience might be, I am sure they will confirm my above ptatement of facts- The report, therefore, which you published can only have b;-en furnished von by someone with, the express object of misleading the public As se,veral of Mr Arnold's committeemen were on the ground I am prepared, in the event of niv statement of the facts being disputed, to speak again on the reclaimed grtiuiiil, and suhkl l>\ the derision of thosa present as to what actually took place. I do not for a moment suggest that my audieuco agreed with my opiu-oiis. I Jut what I do say is that they had the courtesy to listen attentively and give me a fair hearing, and they certainly carrii.d, no such resolution ae was statv'd in your report.—l am, e tc. ; W 7 . Downek Stewart. November 50. [The question is not what another meeting on the reclaimed land may rcolve or reject, but what happened there yesterd.iy. Wo have explained elsewhere what actua'.jy took place, and wo are prepared to stand by our version, which in corrubnrsted by nearly a dozen auditors, of wlu«e bona fid=?s M'e are quito satisfied.—Kd. E.S.]