THE WAIRARAPA ELECTION.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3111, 31 January 1871, Page 2

THE WAIRARAPA ELECTION.

(to the editor ov thb indedendent.) Sib, — Will you allow rao space to make a few remarks on the unfairness displayed by your " Own Correspondent" in this district in making statements with regard to my conduct which ure absolutely untrue, but will at the sumo time tend to injure me, as there is not time to contradict them publicly beforo the polling day. A " Correspondent" is supposed to give an impartial account of what occurs in a district — whereas that now given in the article headed •' Pearce v. Pharuzyn" ia well known in this district to be perfectly false. Mr Waterhouse brought a most absurd charge against me of suppressing a telegram from Mr Poarce. I have shewn beyond a doubt that I made this telegram as public as possible, and within two days alter receiving it wrote to Mr Pe»rce stating exactly what construction I had put on it. He did not write to say I had misunderstood his meaning— therefore be must be taken to have endorsed what I had done. My object in telegraphing was simply to defeat the schemes of a small party who worked to keep Mr Pearce in the field after his public withdrawal — a proceeding lam sure he would never havo sanctioned, and which his reply to my telegram must clearly havo meant he would not allow. At all events I clearly understood this to be its meaning, and said so as publicly as possible. The charge against me has so completely failed that Mr Waterhouse has actually written a letter in the " Mercury" to say that he did not mean to accuse me of doing wrong j but this fact is not mentioned by your veracious correspondent, iur is the equally important one in any way noticed that Mr Masters on tho nomination day read a letter from Mr Pearce confirming the interpretation I had put on his telegram, and which ha Bhowed to ma when I told him what I had heard from Mr Pearce, on the day I received tho telegram. Strongly protesting against such unfair misrepresentation. — I am, &c, Chakles Phabazyn. - Mastorton, January 26, 1871.