CORRESPONDENCE.
MR. GIBBS AND HIS VOTE. To the Editor op the Nklson Evening Mail: Sir,— ln your issue of the sth instant your • comments are so strong and pointed in ref eren6e to the vote which I and other members of the Council recorded on the amendment of Mr. Macmahon (as you please to call it, in favor of Separation), that I feel it necessary to answer them. As for the disappointment you so strongly express and doubtless feel at the conduct of Dr. Irvine, with that I have nothing to do; but my friend Mr. Macmahon and I consulted as to the expediency of proposing some amendment to a paragraph in the proposed reply, which appears to express approval of what we thought unnecessarily strong language in the Superintendent's address on the probable action of the West Coast people in petitioning the Assembly to be allowed to manage their own affairs, which expressions in the address we considered premature till the grievances of which the West Coast people may have to complain have been heard; in fact, to us it seemed to be prejudging the case. As one of the members alluded to, I shall, after the close of the session, as usual, meet my constituents, and I can assure you, sir, on this score shall do so without either the fear or trembling yon predict. lam, &c, W. Gibbs. Council Chamber, 6th May, 1869.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 105, 6 May 1869, Page 2
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