PORT CHALMERS MAYORAL ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 2936, 17 July 1872, Page 2

PORT CHALMERS MAYORAL ELECTION.

To the Editor.

series of letters which, for some weeks back, has appeared in your columns, subscribed variously, “ Watchman,” “J. 5.,” and “R. C.,” but evidently all emanating from one source, via;., the partisans of a well, known aspirant to the office of Mayor, who has all along shown symptoms of a “ mind diseased.” It has now, however, culminated in such a climax of idiocy that it is evidently the duty of tho authorities to interfere by instituting an enquiry dc lunatka. For your own information and that of the public, Mr Editor, 1 may state that these otherwise harmless individuals are subject to periodic attacks of that species of insanity known as political mania, under the influence of which they are liable, unless properly treated, to conduct themselves in a most extraordinary and ridiculous manner, their latest and most absurd escapade being the return of the present member for Port Chalmers to the Provincial Council. On that occasion all or? dinary methods of treatment having proved ineffectual, and acting on tho principle that “desperate diseases require desperate remedies,” recourse was had to that eminent psychologist and excellent critic, the contributor of “Casual Notes,” to your morning contemporary, and, I am glad to be able to say, with the happiest results ; tho means prescribed by him (chiefly blistering) proving perfectly successful—so much so that, until lately, no symptoms of returning delirium have been observable. It is now, however, plain that another attack is imminent, and unless a repetition of the former dire results be desired, I should strongly recommend that strenuous exertions to prevent such a catastrophe bo adopted fortwith.—• I am, &c., A Hater of Humbug. Port Cb aimer?.