Original Correspondence.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1268, 7 May 1883, Page 2

Original Correspondence.

A MINER'S REASONS WHY. (TOTHSEWTOB, InaNQAHCA TIHEB.) Sir, — In your last issue I give a few of the reasons why, in my opinion, the mintm should not vote for Mr Shaw at this election. I now beg to give a few of the reasons why I believe Mr Wakefield is the most 'worthy of oar support :— Because he is a tried and able man, and holds a recognised position iu the politics of the Colony. Because he is a native—and a rising young politician whose name will occupy a conspicuous place in the history of the Colony, and who ought therefore to receive the hearty sup- ! port of every native of the Colonies, Boys ! "Go for " the native. Because he is a staunch freetrader. Because in him the Inangahua will have an active and powerful reprev tentative, such as ft has never yet had. Because he is a strong exponent of the principle of local self-government and rightly advocates the leaving of local work to local bodies, providing adequate revenbes to carry them out. Because he left the Grey party when they were dragging the Colony to ruin, and because he denounced the present Government when they tried • to perpetrate the East Coast Railway swindle. '

Because he will be a powerful advocate ! of the West Coast railway, and will have the hearty aupport and cooperation of the whole of the Canterbury members. Because Efakitika ia already : repr«. , sen ted" by a resident of Wang^nui, and if Inangahua was represented by a resident of Wellington, two out "«£> i the .three West Coast members would ; v be residents of the florth Island, and [ then God help the West Coast and [ ita railway, and everything in it. Because Mr Wakefield has a political 'reputation at stake, which affords a good guarantee that he will do what he promises. ■'. . Because he is a politician of broad and liberal views, and therefore . one in every way worthy to represent the broad 1 and liberal sentiment of a mining constituency such as this. For. these, and many other reasons which time will not permit me to enumerate, I think every miner should give Ms vote and support to Mr Wakefield, who, although a stranger amongst us, has by his aptitude and activity, obtained a far greater knowledge of the condition and requirements of the goldfields in his short stay, than a starched Government official would acquire in half a life-time. ' * : Yourseto. '. A Minbb, - Boatman'* May sth, 1883.