HE ONLY WANTS A TRIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 660, 12 June 1882, Page 2

HE ONLY WANTS A TRIAL.

To the Editor.

Sir, —At the nomination on Saturday Mr Brown avoided and Mr Saunders called attention to a fact which should receive the attention of Wakanni electors at this juncture—l refer to the barrenness of Mr Ivesa’ past public life. His great journalistic advantages on the West Coast and elsewhere ; his five years in the Nelson Provincial Council ; and his years in the Ashburton Borough Council, are all admittedly barren ; and we are asked “ to give him a trial ” now, as if he had never been tried before and found wanting ! But I was glad to hear Mr Ivess pay such a high compliment to the Guardian as he did, when he told us that whenever he was misrepresented there he wrote to the Editor, and corrected it at once. He, perhaps, did not see what a strong proof he was giving us that he was very rarely misrepresented, and that ho could rely implicitly on your justice to put matters right whenever he was. I had long before been struck with the fact that Mr Ivess and his friends are so conscious of this that they always send you a long and often not very courteous grumble about everything that is not exactly to their taste in The Guardian, whilst vve hardly ever see even the most sensitive and inexperienced man attempt to do the same thing in what that outspoken honest man, Mr Megson, calls, in homely language, “the great liar of Ashburton.” I was considerably amused at Mr Ivess’a suggestion to Mr Saunders, that he (the latter) should become a tii-weekly correspondent of the Ashburton Mail, and occupy a large part of his time in proving the fallacy of that organ’s reports, accusations, articles, and extracts. As the same process would no doubt require - to be continued after the election, Mr Saunders’ constituents would, I think, very justly conclude that he had little time left for attention to their business. —I am, etc., Residential,