THE HEATHCOTE ELECTION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1188, 26 January 1864, Page 5

THE HEATHCOTE ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR QF THE LYTTEI/rON TIMES. Mr Moorhouse's statement at the recent election was made, in your opinion, in "a plain manly fashion." I confess tliat the impression which k liroduced on tny mind was exactly the reverse. I nmild find neither manliness in an attack on an ab- ™ ma n Stae portion m»»t prevent him (rom mtprferine'with an election for the Provincial Council, 2SW could tlierete lie avoided the"ver/ point on which many were aniiout tfssys z SSR of The°preaeiit Superinten.

personally which is now being evinced by those who, but a few months ago* presented him to the electors as the person best fitted for the office of Superintendent. The reason alleged—that Mr. Bealey said he would resign and then changed his mind will hardly account for the coarse and personal invective with which we wore treated by Mr. Moorhouse; and the natural inference seems to be that something is kept back which will not bear telling. I expected that Mr. Ollivier, as one probably possessed of the mind of his chief, would have gladly availed himself of this opportunity for alluding to the subject, and for letting us know how far the public were right and how far they were wrong in supposing that interests of a private or personal nature were mixed up in the case. The first few sentences that fell from his lips satisfied every one that they would get nothing out of him ; but when Mr. Moorhouse unexpectedly appeared on the scene with a look at once of frankness and excitement, I indulged in the not unnatural hope that he was going to supply the omissions of his friend and to make a clean breast of it. Here, however, I was again disappointed, and now I should like to ask, what I think the public have a right to know, whether any explanations are to be given at any future time. Yours, &c., AN ELECTOR.