MR BEETHAM'S MEETING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 245, 22 August 1879, Page 2

MR BEETHAM'S MEETING.

To the Editor of the Wairaiupa Daily. Sir,—l was much pleased to find that our esteemed and worthy Representative, Mr Beetham, had a grand ovation, and with one solitary exception, received a vote of confidence and support at the forthcoming election, I quite agree with your foot note to my last letter. Mr Beetham has been, as every local b>. dy in the district can testify, exceedingly active in forwarding the interests of each district, and as Chairman of the Wairarapa East County Council, sparing neither time or trouble in promoting its advancement, But his old colleague, Mr Bunny, had had his day also, and finding he had got so active and energetic an assistant, naturally wanted a little rest. I feel satisfied that if Messrs Bunny and Beetham are re-elected, this important district will have its fair share of loaves and fishes.

The rabbit is rather a quiet animal, but the Wairarapa Bunny will not, depend upon it, submit to the embrace of the Grey-hound. lain, &c, Elector. MR BUNNY'S MEETING. $ To tin Editor of tlie Wairarapa daily. Greytown, August 20, 1879. Slit,—At last night's meeting here, I shocked Mr Bunny by interpreting Sir George Grey's description of how, when in the Army he was sent out to support tithe-gatherers in Ireland, with which he professed hiinsel disgusted, as going out to harry the Catholics—when he could have sold orresigned his commission, and stating that at that time I was helping the Canadians to win improved institutions, for which I ha 4 to submit to total ruin, about which I never whined, and have since had the pleasure of witnessing the relief I gave to those colonists and the Colonial office. But when I said Sir George Grey had stolen the Land Bill, he appeared horrified. If he would look in Johnson's Dictionary he will find the first explanation of the word to steal is "To withdraw privily." Further, he threatened to send for his big brother Grey to come and chastise me, which I thought complimentary, as many at the meeting considered him more than a match forme himself ; but I suppose I shall, in my usual mild way, survive the dressing to which I shall so submissively submit, What a pity Sir George Grey had not lived when the thirteen colonies broke from England, for then he might have presented them with his wonderful programme, (which he and party say we old Liberals desire to steal) if not engaged as a British officer in trying to conquer them. However, the Americans have managed without his aid to form institutions for themselves, leaving out the supposed imperfections of ours; but lam sorry to notice that they have not avoided the use of capital,- large fortunes, and large estates, nor abundance of crime, vice, and misery which, somehow, no matter what the form of Government, attach themselves to humanity.

If the British Government could regard my services in the light I do, I think they would make me Sir Samuel. Should this hint supgest the proper action, to save time and trouble I must say I could only accept it conditionally, and that is that it treated me in the irregular way that it has behaved to Sir William Pox. The suggestion of irregularity, I beg to state, is not mine, but the friend of humanity hereabouts.- -Yours, &c, Samuel Revans.