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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 4, Issue 189, 4 May 1861, Page 4

To T. K. Newton, Esq. (Per favor of the Haioke's Bay Herald,) Deab SIB, — With reference to an account given in this day's Herald of- a meeting held in the Council Chamber, you are reported to have said, — " and on two distinct occasions Mr. Stark had pledged himself to resign, the first time condition- " ally upon a majority of his own supporters signing a .requisition to that effect ; the second without any condition," The first part of this paragraph is correct, but with respect to the second I beg to

state that you must have misunderstood the purport of our conversation, as. l never made an un- . conditional promise, or entertained the slightest idea ;of. voluntarily resigning my seat, unless in compliance with my promise. I beg therefore to . request that you will publicly correct the mistake. • I am, Sir, . ' ■ ■ Yours, &c, -„, ... -- . . H. P. STARK. Napier, v April 27, 1861. To H. P. Stabk, Esq. (Per favor qf tlie Hawke's Bay Herald.) Deae Sib, — I have just received your letter of 27th ult., desiring me to correct a mistake, which you say i made in declaring at a public meeting that Vyou had pledged yourself to resign " without any condition." ' • In reply, I beg to state that I cannot" retract anything which I affirmed at that meeting. I merely stated the impression conveyed to my mind by yourself in a conversation I had with you previous to the nomination of members for the Provincial Council. So far as I recollect, you said that you had come (to my atore) on purpose to see me ; that you had recently seen and conversed with about sixty different persons, and that you- found the general opinions of the electors so decidedly opposed to your own on the subject of the Wellington Debt, that you had come to the conclusion of not placing yourself in a false position by going to the G-ene-ral Assembly, but had fully made u\> your mind to resign, and as you were aware that the fact of ■*ny having nominated you would be made a political handle of at the coming election, you had come-rto. tell me your determination and to give me permission to mention it on the hustings, or '^lisey^here, if I thought it would be of any service <inl«ecuring my own election. Whatever mental reservation you may have had, none was stated on this occasion, and my impression at the time was that you intended to resign without making any conditions, seeing that popular opinion was so much against you. Yours, &c, T. K. NEWTON. Napier, May 3 S 1861.