GREY VALLEY JOTTINGS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1267, 4 May 1883, Page 2

GREY VALLEY JOTTINGS.

♦ Mr Shaw held a meeting in Granville on the evening of the 28th, Mr Willing was voted to the chair. Mr Shaw gave an address which consisted of the same story that has been spun all over the elec--1 torate ; a good deal about himself, and a' little about his friends, and what he expects from them. Mr Shaw seems to think that by going to Parliament a devout believer in the present Government, it will be the salvation of the Inangahua. Mr Shaw may believe as he likes at present, but if he goes to Wellington as member for the Inangahua, he will only be too glad to do what the present Government requires of him, which is Mr Shaw's thorough support. Any intelligent elector knows the amount of sympathy the present Government has for goldfields, or any matter connected with j goldfields. Mr Shaw has dropped the Timaru Herald j'arn that he tried to make capital out of at the start ; still he cannot avoid hinting about hi» opponent in a way that an elector must be very verdant not to notice it. At the close of his address, several questions were put to him, which he answered well as a lawyer - but many thinks, not as a candidate should do. A vote of confidence proposed by Mr Graham,, a voter from Orwell Creek, seconded by Mr Corkhill, was carried and the meeting then terminated. Since Mr Shaw's meeting at Orwell Creek the place is in a furor of excitement. If Mr Shaw is returned every grievance is going to be redressed, and the creek is literally going to overflow with milk and honey. Don't they wish they may see it, is all I say on the matter. Many of the miners seem to have forgotten one important fact. This is no Timaru Herald goak, and that when Mr Shaw was appointed Warden for the Valley, many yeiirs ago, one of his first actions was to bring into force a rule compelling miners to pay registration fesa for their mining privileges every six months instead of twelve. A correspondence in the Gray

[ River Argus published at that time will prove the truth of my assertion. To that correspondence the miners are indebted tto for having saved them a number of registration fees, and it also was the means of letting daylight in on Mr Shaw's ideas regarding what was beneficial to the mining interest. I am &c, A Voice prom the Grey Valley.