THE ROSLYN ELECTION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2801, 28 January 1871, Page 3

THE ROSLYN ELECTION.

'I ;-y; •..■'. '.'.,:'_'"" .. TO THE EDITOR. i" -J Sir—The time for the Koslyn election is close at hand, and it therefore behoves every elector to look oalinly and dispassionately at ithe policy of the two candidates aspiring to the honour of representing that district in -the General Assembly. ' To my mind, the , gentlemen who have .brought forward Mr Robs have committed ia very grave mistake, for if they were not ,pleased with the conduct of Mr Driver as ! their representative, surely a gentleman could be found in the district without going a begging to the civil list. It iB just like engaging_oneof our own servants to work for himself. At a meeting of the electors of Roslyn, held at Maori Hill, Mr Ross stated that he had not intended to address the elecitors at all. Surely, he did not run away with the idea that the electors of Roslyn would elect him or any other candidate without knowing his sentiments. If.he has laboured under that . delusion, he must disabuse his mind at once, for I can tell him that the Mornington portion ef the electors is neither troubled with diseased nervous systems or a spffcenicg of the brain, to allow either him or any other candidate to represent them without being acquainted with his views. Mr Ross likewise stated at Maori Hill that he* was much surprised at seeing the advertisement in the morning paper calling the meeting. Might I tell Mr Ross that he knew all about it, or how could he have, come to the meeting so well prepared with everything? Mr Ross also states in bis published address that he covets no higher honour thaa the esteem of his fellow-men; but I can inform him what he covets a great deal more, and that is his situation ; forif he had a spark of that manly feeling which is a characteristic of the raca he springs from, he would have resigned his situation at once, and appeared before the electors as an independent candidate; and they would then be in a position to judge which is the best man to represent them.' Whether Mr Driver, with his outspoken language on the hustings, or Mr Roas, meeting committees of the electors, meetß with the views of the electors of the district, must be decided at the poll. Let all, then, who have the interest of the district at heart, vote for the candidate who has represented them already with so much credit to himself, and with benefit to the entire district.—l am, &c., An Elector.