AN EXPLANATION.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 178, 7 December 1881, Page 3

AN EXPLANATION.

ICO THE EDITOE. ] Slßir-Li your repott i f the proceeding? Nt the nomination at the late, election of _ the Hoii. W;. Johnston as member- fo 1 ' Manawktn I.nni repTesenfecl as praisfm : him for his pa «t services. Owihgi no doalii ■to the necessity exiating- for i;on'deh«iin> your ecconritpf what. I said, the pu'poi'tM ,my remarks in-* serdn^ingMr^ Johnston': nominaiion is liable to be mißnml«rstoo']: ,Tii explaining whyrl(,wbo was at the : : l?s> ; an opponent of Mr. Johnsttm; w» now sunpoitine him. I stated that as he>p. .assisted, at Ihe jsolieifation of ifr. Lintn, and mypelf, to^Qbt^in the embodiment v ;. the Gpvernß^B^rtoal Pablic Works schftmr •of the pHneipTe^lVjrig contended for by th<. Manawatn Coimty- CohneilV' *'*., v 'the cot -stTuctjon of all the ronds out of prnceWiß <• sale;. through any biocife^of Crown lard <??« posed of by the Goveinm- nt. 1 was wilUne Iso far asvl-was concerned^ to e-nflone nn.i demerits or defects on Mr. Johnston's fa^ m, the past^especfejlly^as' the Goveniroe pt which hhre r is a iherhber intenfl.s to pp's the scheme again next sessicni arid cavry i if possible. For tliis- reiispn only did : support Mr. Johnston, and' my expreßSi" regard to his past career 'as menib' ( 5? p the district, and c»n sparcely be considered ■ dered m the light of uiqualified praise;— 3 :ani, 4c.; [■■'": ■■■:•■■•■■ ; ;: ■• :■ , f ..,i : - ; :■ . ; p. a. Macakthdb.