STANMORE ELECTORATE.
TO THB EDITOE 09 THI BTAB. Sib, — In your leader of yesterday you favoured your readers in general and the electors of Btanmore electorate in particular, with some extraots of a Billingsgate type, from a paper styling itself the Press. There is no doubt, sir, that the vilifying and coarse remarks contained in those extracts concern* ing the Stanmore eleotors are only the ebullitions of a temper, soured by a resent expose ot certain taotios of its pure moral bosom friends. The answer the Stanmore electors would and do make to such diatribes as are contained in those extracts would, I think, be best conveyed in the language of one of 2E»op's Fables, namely, the fox telling the lion that one of his subjeots, a certain Mr Ass, had spoken disrespectfully and slightingly of his Majesty's actions and person. Whereupon the lion made only the simple remark that, he never tosk notice of what an aia said of him. No more, I feel sure, will the Stanmore electors heed the brayings of the Press. I am, &c, P. S.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4317, 23 February 1882, Page 3
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181STANMORE ELECTORATE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4317, 23 February 1882, Page 3
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