THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 88, 21 October 1870, Page 3

THE SUPERINTENDENCY.

(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Chronicle.)

Sib; —Who shall be our next Superintendent ? will soon be the all-absorb-ing question throughout the Province. One of your correspondents, who signs himself "Elector," and whose letter appeared in your issue of the 7th inst., would seem to set this question at rest by proposing to the seac of honor one Bradshaw —a man of whose existence but few seem to know. Can this be the same Bradshaw who was appoint d Commissioner to the Otago Goldfitlds by the Stafford Ministry, about four years ago, and whose mission in that affair so ignominiously failed, as must of your readers will remember ? If it be the same, our friend " Elector " will probably find that he presumes too much in making the above proposition. But it would appear that he is not singular in this ; for simultaneously with his letter, others appeared in several of the Provincial papers on the same subject—all, of course, bearing different signatures. But when one takes into consideration that all those letters were printed about the same time, and that the gist of all is—though some cautiously " beat about the bush " —up with Bradshaw and down with Macandrew, can anyone avoid concluding that they have all emanated from the same mind, and have been put forth as " feelers," or to make people conclude " What a popular man Bradshaw must be, since so many write in his favor." This political dodge will, of course, be considered honorable by those who hold by the maxim. " All's fair in polities," but

it must be disgusting to everybodv else. Bradshaw, or rather " Elector," will find that everyone is not, as he sava, " disgusted with Macandrew and his' tail. The lovers of change would do well to pause before rejecting a "man so able, experienced, and energetic as is our present {Superintendent, who undoubtedly has the interest of the Province and Colony sinfjrely at heart and who is no class legislator, but- does all in his power to foster every branch ot trade, and make mcin work harmoniously together. The prosperity of the Province is more owing to iVlacandrew's exertions than to those of any other of our public men. The depression wnieh lias, of late years, swept over the whole Colony —prostrating several provinces—bas been less felt in this Province than in any of the others. Ofcago, like a wellbuilt ship, commanded by an experienced and ever-wakeful captain* has sailed through inanv stormy seas beset with rocks, where many good ships have gone to the bottom, and not a few of them for l. ck of proper commanders. But our gallant captain safely pilots his ship, through lair weather and' foul, over the trackless ocean—along the rugged and dangerous coast and crosses the bar in safety. And behold! he is taking in tow the dismasted and water-logged ship Southland, while the ships "Westland and Timaru cry aloud to him, " Save us, or we perish/' His answer is in the affirmative—he will save all; unless, indeed, like the Scottish hero Sir William "Wallace, he be envied by the few who may incite the minds of the many against him.—l am &e., ' Anti-Chaos.