THE ELECTIONS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 367, 20 June 1884, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS.

; ■ — ~- ♦ rr C "■• .' ; ' TO THK KDITOB. Sib>~l awoke yesterday io find myself ai objectj of interest. Thinking over. it, , I con. dud.eit is because I am a 1 voter,- that the election U on, and Mr Driver is away. Onct an old sailor witt whom mhade.. a., voyage gave ine his opinion ; " It i» at sea as it is ashore, if a man. goes out of his w£y to speak to you, it is for his awn sake, not '. jours." When; Invercargillites and Kirigstonites, come out ofj the way to notice me/ I sea '-plainly the d^if t— they want my vote, 1 , They won't have it. They : may!. . save' themselves the journey and the cost'. Thei colony, divided into f electorates that each district ;s&quld send ajm^ (from; itself to -represent it. If a Wellington manicojttfd ias well represent Inverpajgili,. why; isend from home 1 a man froin In\terc-argill 7 i Itmight pave local jealoiisy in Inyercargill if-ibat was what was, intended, hut it ;was not.; Representative gbvernmen£ means- local mea, yet nbt men Who are merely locaVsu^h I ' as: cannot ■ee oyer the creek that'boumis their section. Do we in Hokonui require to rQceive patronage f£om outside ? I trow-notf. qQsi xia at once inform those who are said to.be, coming from their own districts seeking our Vote and confidence, \thaf we have none to give; we have Jovera at home in abundance,— men who hare travelled as far and seen as- much of thewbrld as they have, and; made. -aa goo d use of their opportunities ; "men who know the wants of the colony as well as they do • and men who, moreover, ."know qni wants and whose interests are identical'-with our own. ■ |3ven if we npeded several-we*; should have If we : do 'go outside «* us|gq.fpr something worth shotfting" 'f or • the telegraph, . brings us as near to Sir George Grey,; Sir Julius Vogel, or anydther : caminffi man as one from Vincent or Invercargilf Ihesq neighbors, however mucXthey profess ,^0 be fib disinterested in? their: own! (districts as to be a,U for us, remind me, of my old sailor ffefonij. Th Q Coniti^ution intends tnat we flhpiild'li'aTe 1 It' refefenta^ve who'has-ft stakepthe-lbcaU^yaa-'well as.jn,the qqiqny • and as a part is. a,• portion. of the .whole! so local la 'in the long view 'gdhe'i ral interest good; common good; We want I a mem who &wj',' ewfafifyrtf. to ini^ove ift , oorrvmlpn witjb ourselves arid the colonj,one, who has sufficient oratory to make ! Himself ' heard J distinctly, a sufficiency of general dni; specific ' knowledge, Jio r know what ris lively to advaijc©' the' colony' and locality/euffictent tact Ija". know, .when] to .speaks 'and silent, Buffi.dent r sensp. not to think him-, self t|ie aodimen?of 'Hll; wisdVin" antW full oJE fadsj' Bufiofcient ; Jmeahs r i"to i;be>inde* i pending .ttßd^, '^oß9. J^onor would,^m^e, then 'the honorarium. r From .what lgafHer around me, I don't think we have far to' aeek for him. — 1 am, etc. Ax Eabnbst Eleoxob,