a donkey and Tom a scheming jesuit. Forgive me if any of these gentlemen is your particular friend and bear in mind that I speak more from common report than from any certain knowledge of my own. Mr. Domett has numerous admirers here and I believe if the election rested with the Electors 4/5ths would be on side --- I have heard that all the gentlemen above named are candidates for election to the Provincial Council. Very few of Domett's friends are so and it is just possible that for this reason alone we may lose the only man amongst the electors who except yourself