ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Dunstan Times, Issue 458, 27 January 1871, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Wo do not identify* ourselves with the opinions that may be expressed by our correspondents. THE SUPERINTENDENCY. (To the Editor of the Dunstan Times.) Sir:— The number of candidates for the office ■of Superintendent having been apparently reduced to two, Messrs Macamlrew and Eeid, the difficulties arising from an “embarras des riches ” would seem to bo entirely removed. It appeared so evident to me that residents in the up country districts have only one course to pursue consonant with an enlightened view of their best interests that I could not understand how Mr. Reid managed to find a single individual to carry round his requisition dißCoVered that r>orttld Eeid ’ s re ‘ implied the supremacy of the coterie so worthily headed by the honorable member for the County of Bruce. This enterprising little politician conscious that all his manceuvering for the past four years has failed to gain him sufficient respect or popularity to enable him successfully to contest the Superintendence, persuaded Mr. Reid, whose vanity is only equalled by his shallowness to come forward. Of course the arrangement was, that in the ■event of Mr. Reid’s return, 1 thanks to the enormous (?) up-country influence of our smart friend the good service should be duly remembered, unfortunately one thing was forgotten when this tidy little arrangement ,was entered tabs, viz., that the np country electors are not quite such fools as they look, and fools they unquestionably would be did they reject a tried and able public servant, who has always shown the deepest interest in the advancement of the mining population, simply because a few interested people bave found it convenient to vituperate his every action and to impute the vilest motives to his most public spirited schemes. Doubly fools would they be did they reject such a man for one ass, whose only gifts are good lungs and an unending flow of verbage, who has never even visited the up-country districts and who is not only utterly ignorant of all mining questions, but is wholly devote to the class most opposed to the free exercise ami uninterrupted development of mining indusrty. I cannot, Sir, for a moment believe the goldfiel-s electors , t o be so completely ignorant of the history of the past and of the probabilities of the future as to hesitate a moment in the r choice in spite of all gratuitous supplements and puffing paragraphs. I-only desire to urge upon them the necessity for •immediate and united action'as they have an enemy to oppose well skilled in chicane and intrigue. Four years ago the working men proved they both knew ana could use their strength, let the recollection of past victory be an incentive to the increased -effort necessary to secure another triumph. T am, &c., INDEPENDENT ELECTOR. December 29, 1870.