THE SWEETS OF OFFICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 940, 3 November 1879, Page 2

THE SWEETS OF OFFICE.

The following is the reply of Mr. W. J. Hurst, one of the Auckland members who went over to the Government, telegraphed on Wednesday to Mr. J. M. Lennox, chairman of the meeting of City West electors held on Tuesday night, condemnatory of Mr. Hurst's defection, and calling on him to resign his seat: — "The results prove the wisdom of the step taken by me. Tne no-confidence motion has been withdrawn, the deadlock has ceased, and the House last night dispatched more beneficial business than during the whole month we have been in session at such enormous cost to the country—something like £30 an hour. Sir George Grey haying voluntarily abandoned the., leadership of the party and declined to form part of any new administration, I was of opinion that no stable one could be constructed. The Hall party satisfied me of their intention to pass the Liberal measures, to do justice to Auckland, and therefore for these and other reasons impossible to communicate, I conceived I was justified in securing these import* ant interests and the welfare of * the colony by adopting the course I pursued. I feel certain that events will fully, justify my conduct. No one will surely doubt but that on all matters affecting Auckland I will be found voting with the majority of our members, unless, indeed, the threat made by some of them be put in execution — to vote against all Auckland grants and bills — in which case I believe strangers will render us that service denied by our own members. I must most respectfully decline to be influenced to resign by a meeting which may ft may not be composed by electors while ignorance of the material facts, and without affording their representative an opportunity of being heard and explaining his conduct.—W. J. Hurst."