MR. G DODSON’S SPEECH.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 October 1869, Page 4

MR. G DODSON’S SPEECH.

To the Editor of the Marlborough Express. Sir. —At the nomination of candidates for the Provincial Council at Tuamarina on the 19th inst, I am reported by the “ Marlborough Press ” (copied into your last issue) to have said “The runholders must be kept under ” to which statement I give most unqualified denial. This is not the first time I have been misrepresented by the same “Press”; but on this occasion as there was no exhibition of any thing like party feeling, and perceiving the only person noting the proceedings was the Returning Officer presiding, I concluded the impartiality supposed to be inherent in his office would have ensured something like a correct report. I,,am &c, George Dodson.

In consequence of the large number of whales captured along this Coast during the past season, we hear with much satisfaction that there is every probability of whaling being revived at Kaikoura, during the next season. The wonder is that it has not been done as it it is admitted by every one well acquainted with the subject that a better site for a whale fishery does not exist along the East Coast of this Island.— Herald. Tub very severe weather experienced here since Monday last, from all we can learn, would appear to have been similar throughout the Island. We trust that very few sheep had been shorn before it commenced, for the weather has been quite severe enough to have killed a large per ceutage of those from whom their fleeces may have been taken, upon the more open and exposed runs. However we must trust in Providence and hope for the best.—Kaikoura Herald.