MR. MANDERS' REQUEST.
: ;_ {Totlm Editor of tlio ' Wakatip Mail.') •;* 81K,-—I have not answered any of the attacks that appeared in the Eress against me whil«< attemliug to my legislative duties at Wellington. 1 thought at the time that.they would have 'been deemed peurile and unworthy of notice. I have made a mistake—these slanders have done their work. I was elected as an Abolitionist, and as such I remaiu The slanders emanate from parties favorable to the old state of affairs These were utterly rotten. Other circumstances made me the unfavored of the ' lJaily Times' and 'Guardian.' 1 have, a3 a member, broken no pledge. 1 defy . any elector to prove, or even show, any vacillation in any matter. I stated before 1 went to the Assembly that I should support the Atkinson Ministry for reasons stated, ami I have doDe so iSo member <:ould have been mure ener getic on behalf of his district than I was, and it has gained many advantages. 1 have simply therefore to request that the electors of tne district—outside a limited number of persons in Queenstown—will not condemn me before either they consult ' Hansard' or hear my account of proceeding? in the late session- I have nothing to fe?.r. Misrepresentations will fade away.—l am, Ac, . .."'■ H,- MASOSK& 'Queeafltown, January 3.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 455, 10 January 1878, Page 3
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