ROSLYN ELECTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2190, 11 February 1869, Page 3

ROSLYN ELECTION.

To the Editor qfihe Otago Daily Tuns. Sir—A contemporary of yoirs is getting frightcnod at Mr Allan's successful candidature, and to tty t<> counteract it, the Stafford hobgoblin inint lw raised, nml ideas novel and interesting diictmcl. Tho?e who know •tight of its management, or who lifkvo only » glimmering idea oi the proprietary, will not be one whit astoniahed at llio exertions tmuto to return Mr Driver as representative of thu Koatyn district. It is siot my intention to fefc low the vagariesof yonrconteriiponwythrmigt* all tho labyriutha through which a fertile imagination and a soul obovc truth lead him. Allow mo to point ont icmc »>pc>ts only in thia luminary. Tho assertion ia tnado that any alteration in tho livntl laws must come from tho Provincial Council. In reply, 1 would wk, is it & fact that there is such an Act a* " Tho Waste I>ands Act, ISSS." applicable to tho wholo colony ! And docs not this Act say that at further Land Acts mutt conform, to throe clauses thoroin mentioned ?" And further, who pawed tho present Wauto Lands Act in Otsgo? nail who lian appointed ay Commission to inquire, into its mnl-ad ministration ? And is it uot a fact that tlio Maryborough Waste Lands Act was much modifled from tho drrift bill which the Maryborough squatters sent up to the General. Assembly ? There in also another a&icrtion made, namely, that tho Guocr.il Assembly has, nothing to do with tho declaration of FTuudrods. To annwer this, [ w.ll faithfully relate what bappem.-d in ISG7, in reference to tho West Taieri Hundmli. Tho d»y before- tho poll for the Superiutrmiency, Air Macjuidrew addressed a largo meeting on tho Nortli Dunedin Ilccrvatioa Ground. A letter had that morniug appeared in your columns from Mr Fultou, and MrMocnndrew explained tbo letter in this ni.tnuor :---",Mr Ful tou baa written this peroonally atomive letter against mo Imjcaubo ho well Icuoa's if I am elected his run wilt to-morrow be declared into Hundreds." Well, Mr Moeandrew vas elected—and a Provincial Council was elected, and Mr Duvur vt'na returned to roprcacut tho Wuikari Diitriot, pledged to aupport tho Hundred system. Tho Weat I'aicri jwonla protcntt-J a petition praying tho Council to recommend tho declaration of. Mr Fulton1* run a Hundred. A motion was made to thin c flout, and was carried by » very largu majority, only ono or two besides Mr Vogal'n Executive voting against. Of this minority, Mr Driver waa one. What docs tl.o Mncnnelruvv-cum-Vogui Ministry d» ? la tho proroguing speech, Mr Mavandrew says he will not recommend, tho declaration of tho Hundred, because a Select Committee had nut c<mudcred tho matter. fc.'o much for Ilia p'.edgp. Ho lhcr«foro recommended tho Oil jniti Ministry not to declare the run a Hundred, anil cotino<|Uently it waa not no dccl.-.red nt that tuna. Now, it stands to reason tli.it a Colonial Ministry having tho declaration of Hundreda. one who will vote for thorn will bo ablo to prevent their declaration ; hence, let theelrctom Jxjwaro how they elect men not Bound in thin moet important of all (jucationa —tho di'poial of the waste lands. Allow ma only to add that ISiID does seem, to have turned tho feeling* of the people very much, for thoeo who, in IHI7, would not dare to show their heads before, a huntings parapet, tho decUi/H, by tho present Executives recoinniondatiuii, now reocivu with op«n tumn. Lot tins electors beware how they follow tho lead of one aiming for a te»t ia tbo Foxita administration, and raise themselveii above party and party^feelings in deciding tho important question— Shall a KcinattioK Esccutivo'u nomineo Ui representative of Roslya ?— I am, Ac., tJOMEfJonr, To Out Editor q/'t/m Otago Daily Timrj. Bik—Mr Urivor ha« several times alluded to the fact of Mr Ilepburn, late member foe- * U<o*lyn, being a supporter of Ur Allan, a« * proof tliat Mr Allan i* a Centralist. Now. without at all admitting tho applica' iltty of. tills Jo^io to Mr Allan, Mr Driver cannot; coinplwn of iU baling apphed to huosblf. So far m he is concerned, it must hold true, seeing he ia tho author of tliiu inferential «tyle of arriving at a candidate's tru» opinions. Applying this pri.wple, then, oa. the subject of Hundreds, for instance, what do we find? Turning to tan Provincial Council Papers, No. s.—"Queationa proposed by the Keleot Committee on Hundreds" daring l*at Sesaion, wo find that a supporter o£ Mr Driver, tho gentleman in fact who moved tha resolution in his favour at the Cavcrsbam meeting the other night, on being a*ked this question. "No. .'i. Granting that tliosy«tema£ Hundreds hiwwroußhtwellhitherto.iJi it your opinion that there if anything in the nrcsea* ctrcumsUnocs of tho country which raiders it inexpedient that it nhould bo continued J" — wrote tho following answer i "No. 3. Yes; tho Hundred extern ffo»i«r» Usiness and cattle stealing.'" Th*t was hiar answer, and that, according to Mr Driver* own logic, must bo Mr Driver's truo opinion too. Electors of Roalyn—" coclcatoos," as yo«c are oorit«inptuouiily styled i>y aomo of th» nquattocracy- let that opinion bo pooderod over by yon, nut to eicito a class feoliu;, but to awaken yon to the folly of returning a thoroughly squatting member. Tho gcntloinan who wrote that answer is ono whose good deeds and kind chiiritftUo act* arc known in many a, poor maxx'a dwelling; but, fais own interests dutortod his judgment and prejudiced his opiDions. And it will be the atuno with Mr Driver, whenever yonr in.tercsto and tho iuteretU of himself and hnr nnrnerotts squatting clionta conflict Ho professes to bofavduraMo to Hundreds, and I believe ho thinks so; but aluio4t cyerygquattcr professes tho usuie thing, bat it » in a very different sense from what you nleux. I^ook to the prol»bi ilie* of the e*»o, U> tfa« political history of the man in tbo past/ aiul I nak you is ft unfair to concldda that Mr Driver cannot roprosent" tho JBoslyn Districton tho land queation,:which, after >11, is this mist important question in Otago?—lain, 4c,! - A, ■ ¥uqviiuux&.