GREY VALLEY REPRESENTATIVES

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1896, 3 September 1874, Page 2

GREY VALLEY REPRESENTATIVES

[to the editor.] Sir — For some weeks past sundry communications and likewise a leading article have from time to time appeared in your weekly issue commenting rather harshly, I think, upon the conduct of Mr Corbett, M.P. 0., since his return from Ihe session of the Nelson Provincial Council ; they are so clearly the emanations of a paltry splenetic temperament as hardly to warrant the notice of any right-thinking persons, but as a miner of long standing in the No Town, district, and being, as they say in the "States," vastly acquainted with nature, and human nature, I have no hesitation in saying that all this unmanly outcry regarding Mr Corbett, out of Council and on his holiday, proceeds from what I might term upcountry chagrin, disappointment, and vexation, at not being able to return a member of their own choice to the Nelson Provincial Council. Will any of these wiseacres deny to Mr Corbett the honor of having done more for the Grey Valley generally, during the nine months of his membership, than the former members did for it during the last eight years. We have all our little failings, and we can all ' take a drop or two of " Usquebaugh,' but when we are first stroked down the back, and dubbed as good fellows, and then nastily peppered with false and injurious statements regarding our conduct out of harness, we retire, exclaiming with poor Burns, " O that the Power the gift wad gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae rnony an evil free us." There are in the Grey Valley, as in other districts, so many little Pedlingfcon3 of townships, and so many little medlingtons of people being therein, who are the oracles " don't you know." and who rule and govern, and in their entirely own way, say and write what they choose about men who are at any moment infinitely their supeiiors in everything save and except wilful slander, and I merely write now to assure you that, while your correspondents may think that they have acted patriotically in calling public attention to Mr Corbett, have only put out the cloven foot a little further than usvial, and thereby stirred up afresh the trifling indiscretion which all sensible persons have forgiven and forgotten. I am, &c, A Miner. No Town, Sept. 2, 1874.