THE PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1873.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1400, 25 January 1873, Page 2

THE PUBLISHED DAILY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1873.

k - ' The departure of Mr David Mitchell > Luckie from the city of Nelson is, perhaps, an incident of more personal than , public interest. TJsuallynewspaper editors ; are persons who, while exerting them- ' selves to express public opinion, are less ( known to the numerous public than to a . few personal friends. For nine or ten 1 years Mr Luckie has undertaken and un- , dergone a large amount of labor as the > editor of a Colonial newspaper, and he : has achieved the common reward of , editors — he has made many enemies, i While he has done so, he has also created ' friendships which are likely to last as long as friendship is excited by an apprecia- . tion of honest, honorable, manly feeling. While conducting the Colonist, and while necessarily exciting enmity on the part of persons whose ideas and actions he opposed, he has, by his writings, recom- ' mended himself to the approval of everyone capable of recognising what constitutes a proper advocacy of public in terests ; and, comparatively limited a3 the local circulation of his writings may have been, there is no part of Nelson Province in which his writings have been more approved of and appreciated than the West Coast. His Sentiments and sympathies are, perhaps, more in accord with those of an active, lively, community, 1 like that of the West Coast, than with ; those of a quiet slow- going community, like that of Nelson; and, the conditions [ being similar, his removal to Auckland will probably afford him opportunity of '. exerting himself, as a public writer, with even greater success than he has hitherto done in this Colony. To the people of t this Province there is one disadvantage i associated with the departure of Mr Luckie, and that is the limitation of their choice of . a future Superintendent. Had he remained in the Province, and had he been pleased to permit himself to be nominated for the. Superintendent's chair, the probability is that he would be elected by a large majority, compared with any other candidate, not even excepting Mr Curtis. As a member of the Provincial Council, he has actively exerted himself in the public interest, and no person in the ; Province could be more appropriately : selected to superintend its affairs. Should he return to Nelson during the next sea. <

sion of the Council, as is not improbable, 1 it is to be hoped that he will not be i adverse to a little sweet soliciting, and « that, while bidding him now good-bye, ( we may be able soon to welcome him '' back to the Province as one who has pro- J moted its interests in the past, and who 1 deserves to receive such honors as it can ] bestow in the future. j