The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and The Morning News. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 605, 18 December 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star. WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and The Morning News.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1871.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do."

The meeting held on Saturday niglit to consider the election of a Mayor for the city was unique. " The People's Champion" was the representative on the occasion, of the party opposed to the re-election of Mr Philips, and may be regarded as having achieved a success. Such an exhibition of blackguardism as that made by the prominent loader in the proceedings surpassed even what we had anticipated from Mr Staines. It is perfectly unnecessary for us to say that in his vicious and scoundrelly attack on an inoffensive and respectable section of tho community, he has not only not represented tho views of any portion of tho people, but has excited as much disgust as could well bo excited by anything coming from such a man. Had ho used the same language in any place of considerable size in Australia ho would have been tarred and feathered on tho spot, if not lynched. This man seems to place all virtue in paying twenty shillings in the pound, but he takes no account of tho way in which the twenty shillings might bo raised, whether from robbing the dead or otherwise. Ear better to be an honest insolvent, than to pay one's way by plunder. We need not to say that the statements intended to injure Mr Philips' commercial character and credit are a gross and malicious falsehood ; and the man capable of making use of such a means to wreak his spite is a danger in tho city.