CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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CHANGE OF TACTICS.

To the Editor. Sir, — Can any of your readers inform me how it is that a letter signed “ Rakaia” should have been allowed to appear in the , columns of the Mail, as it is so opposed to all the ideas expressed by Mr Ivess, and so volubly given to the public column after column in that paper 1 Further, it is the more extraordinary, since from the very commencement of the contest any: , thing savoring of opposition to the opinions put forth in that gentleman’s radical oratorical displays has been carefully suppressed. Does Mr Ivess begin to find out that his bunkum strains and highly *• wrought anathemas against the Hall Government are beginning to pall upon the Wakanui electors; that they can see through the hollowness of his professions, and that he is (now that his chance is daily diminishing) resorting to another one of those little political dodges with which he is so conversant, to thus endeavor to gain his end ? Perhaps he sees tint the more solid and statesmanlike utterances of Mr Parnell are carrying the weight which their genuineness entitle them to. Fellow electors, do not be gulled by any more of Mr Ivess’s rhodomontade, but let him take the place to which his previous actions and his Radical ideas entitle him namely, a, “ back seat” in our political arena, remembering that if you elect him you will virtually disfranchise the electorate, his views being so widely different from his ought-to-be colleagues in the county interests. Sound Statesmanship. Nov. 25.