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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 December 1881, Page 2

Should Mr Weston be elected to-day, and we do not hesitate for a moment in believing that he will be. what an im« mense amount of lying, slandering, and misrepresentation will have been expended in vain by Rome of his opponents ? The vilest falsehood* and most infumons slanders have been uttered and ban lied about with a license and recklessness never before equalled at an . election on the West Coast. And all this in relation to a eentleman who6e conduct both on and off the judicial bench has ever been mnrked with candour, courtesy and im* partiality. Hut «f(er all it is a mere pouring of wa'er on a duck's back. It So happens that the character of Mr W*> a ton's accusers is such that it \a not what they say, but only what they, are n),\ c to prove (hnt the public will believe: To com. pare the character of Mr Wesfco n Wltn 'h^e ofl.isop/onenU wouU b e o-i ion's

indeed. We have had sit years experience of Mf Weston's character on the judicial bench ; we have seen him working incessantly for twelve months for the East and West Coast railway, and we have seen his conduct during the last session of Parliament. He went to Wellington a new member, quite inexperienced in the forms of the House, and in one of the most troublous sessions the Colony hns yet seen, accomplished more for the West Coast than all the Mr Reeves who have been sent to the House fur the past five year?. In the firet place he saved the Colony from the grip of Sir George Grey, by voting with the Government on the no-confidence dU "fisidn'j i*nd finally carried the Bill in the j, face. of all If the?e services are not sufficient to raise M* WM<h^» candidature above that of tjDfes'e «qio.Rr© pp4?Pßeo to him, then m»y we: despMr of eye* obtaining real repreI sejftative.