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Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 94, 26 March 1877, Page 2

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NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. While our column* will be open at all time* to the discussion of matters of legitimate public interest, it will be dearly understood that we are in no way whatever identified with the views of our correspondents. In order to avoid future annoyance, we desire to state definitely that, under no cinumstance whatever will our Court reports be curtailed or withheld. AU correspondence intended for insertion in this column must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, merely as a guarantee of good faith. tetters to, the Bd>tor must be enclosed in an envelope and left at the office not Met ikon 11 a.m on the dag preceding publication. No verbal communication will be held with correspondents in reference to their eeatmunicttions, as intimation of the acttpttmte or rejection of letters can only be given m the regular way through the paper. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [TO THB IMTOB IXAKOABr/A TtMBS.] Sim— lt was announced some short time ago that Mr Charles Woolcock, one of the members for this district in theHouse of Representatives, bad takes hi* departure for good from Greymouth, in* tending in future to take up hie residence in Wellington. Now, Sir, lam speaking | the feeling of a large body of Mr Woolcock's constituents, not alone in this dis* trict but in the Grey Valley, when I My that it is very much against tbe interests of this constituency that it should be re* presented in Parliament by an absentee. Asa resident of Wellington what possible knowledge can Afe Woolcock acquire of the wants ot tbose who returned him ?> If it should tv, n out that Mr Woolcock baa left the district permanently, I think the sooner he is called upon, to relinquish his seat the better it will, be for our com" bined interest*. I am, <&c, Ax Eeectobv ! Reefton, March 24. 1877.