AUCKLAND ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9257, 20 July 1893, Page 3

AUCKLAND ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOK. .Sir,—Through a clever maimnivrc Auckanil electors have been impanelled, as a jury or the entire colony, to pronounce a verdict [i the case (Jadinan v. Rees, or Kces v. Cadnan. Were this all, and the matter to be letennined were purely personal, the issue vould very much depend upon the estimate of ndividual character, or the preponderance 1 individual influence. The issue, however, * national, involving the honour and rectitude >f the colony of New Zealand. Apart from ny personal consideration, the question hus forced upon the Auckland electorate foe olution is simply this : Do you endorse the ,ction of any Minister of the Executive Government, using his official influence, itlier directly or indirectly, for his own mrichnient by the acquirement of blocks of lative land? If the case now pending arbitranent by the votes of the coining election, ihould unfortunately be decided in favour of inch transactions, it will become a precedent) or the future, and stamp such conduct with lational approval. Its record will be a itandiug memorial of Auckland's moral :onsciousness of what is befitting, honour* ible, and honest on the part of the mid public servants in the exercise jf the high functions entrusted to .hem. As Napoleon I. said to his soldiers 011 :he eve of the Battle of the Pyramids, " The ;ycs of twenty centuries are upon you," so nay it bo said to the Auckland electors on :he eve of tins election, " Fellow-colonists, the eyes of the Australasian colonies and of the mother country are upon you !" Do your duty uninfluenced by any personal considerations or party politics. The election is based upon a principle, one of common honesty and otlicial faithfulness. The electors hold the scales in their own hands, Blind and deaf to all flattery, sophistry, and seduction, leb them vote conscientiously in the present and future interests of this sadly-misgoverned and victimised colony, so long the hunting ground of " land grabbers." There is an evident disposition, if not an intention, to narrow the issue of this dual election to a, mere question of personal preference and personal antecedents, obscuring thereby the real question at issue. Some, from ill-con-cealed motives, advise abstinence from voting, but common sense and common honesty should stimulate every right-minded elector by his vote cither to approve or to disapprove all such land transactions by public servants. Let every man do his duty conscientiously.—l am, etc., Colonist. July IS, ISM.