ELECTIONEERING REWARDS!

New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1890, 9 June 1863, Page 3

ELECTIONEERING REWARDS!

To the Editor of the New-Zealaxder. Sir —ln looking over an old file of papers I came across the copy of a letter dated 20th December, 1856. published in the Southern Cross, headed "Personation,; ma *i#w* « & g(W* jjf frdWfwr Zi wrei <*» Bdwwrf

of a proceeding at the election for the suburbs, in which Mr. David Graham was a candidate and Mr. J O , of Newmarket, a voter. I send you a true copy of the letter now in my possession.

Now, Mr. Editor, the rti ; n I hive forwarded you that copy is, because I read in one of the Auckland journals a few days back that Waste Lands Commissioner Daldy, appointed by our new Superintendent, had sold, «/ unction, a very valuable little tit-bit of land to Mr. Robert Graham for about one-tenth the value. I never before thought a " north of Tweed " man could be so generous, but then, it is true it was public properly; and I am sure our model Superintendent would do nothing wrong wilfully after the promise he made on the hustings, when he said " his policy would be honesty." His boasting words on that day ptume in mind of a man who, seeing some bags of beans on the side of a road, wpited till a stranger camealonic, when he said to him: "Friend, honesty is best policy; be kind enough to help me up with this bag of beans;" but that man's honesty got him flogged round the town behind a cart. Now, Mr. Editor, I heard a few days back that our generous Superintendent is going to make David Graham's friend, J O , a present of a chain or more frontage of the Epsom road, as, I understand, at the last election for Superintendent, O and his two sons-in-law turned their coats and voted for Robert. I should think that T s R 11, junr., and Mr. Benjamin Turner will be very glad when they come to hear of this proposed little arrangement as they alsohive property on this same line of road, and are ten times more entitled tohave this frontage given to their property than O e is, for I am sure no two men worked harder nor told more fibs than K 11 and T r did to place Robert Graham in the office he now holds, and they are now under penance for their manifold sins at that time. There is a talk about Newmarket that Colonel Dnvy and 0 n, are about erecting a monster store at Newmarket, and they want the Warden's Well to fit into the middle of the store in case of any accident by fire; another report says that On is going to turn water merchant, and sell water to the passers-by at so much a bucket.

I am, sir, One that keeps his Weather-eve Open. May Bth, 1863. P.S.—I have a correct plan of J. 0 's land, and the turn of the corner on to Epsom road. I think it is better to let the public be put on their guard before hand respecting what I have hoard, than to agitate a;rer the thing has been done, as in the cases of the "..£SOOO mistake," the Hot" Springs annexation, and the sale of the half million at par. Public jobbery and and trickery seems of late to be the " order of the day " under the Provincial Government.