The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1872.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 225, 20 September 1872, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1872.

The election of a Superintendent of Nelson appears to be exciting more interest in the ;Goup.tjrrof Westland than in the 1 3?rovinfie immediately interested. The; Grey River Argus has thrown itself heart and aoiai into thd^ imatter; and, iiideed, has displayed^uch* '^eagerness tohaye the,firat ; say • on the r subject .that it has laid itself open to the charge^-to nse^ -a; -phrase r which partakes ■ ; sp^ewfiat ■ of ;. ■ fllangineßs---of :; Btartin^ ibefoire it was ready. To explain pur? meaiiiffigr ~H On i 'Sattti-day^ last;;' the^ej: ■ appear6^/in^:thaii' ggw^iple^jfprnai; :an;;; articiel^he^iirpbrt oof^hich .was to iqa- : press "uppaf th^ele^tdri the :^e|irabilit^^of. i-tecOTdwg^tfie^'^ie'ffviiiiflß^ i^ghep(iard^ '^fg^i $$$9f W^rPW&i; t Wel^?CoM^o^^^p^#tl^fe^

of the present Superintendent, the leader before us proceeds to say:—" Granted that the Superintendent's chair will ine?itably\ be inherited By a resident; of- the 'fioram^ ferous concavity "r-^why not say Sleepy. Hollow at once? It is more euphonious, and many syllables Bhorter — " of Nelson, it will uot be easy to elect a gentleman better suited for the position than Mr. Shepbard." Sunday, however,intervened between the publication .of this article and the next issue of the Argus, and it appears to have been devoted to reflection and repentance, superinduced, possibly, by a telegraphic correspondence with one or more individuals at present in Wellington, for on the following Monday we find that our many-eyed contemporary had suddenly became blind to the charms of Mr. Sbephard, and displayed a disposition to "keep company " with a new love still better " suited for the position." The bride to whom " Argus" so gleefuily wedded himsolf on Saturday is cruelly murdered — consigned to utter oblivion — and on Monday, Mr. Luckie, whom — ignoring the distinction of sexes — ;we may fairly, term the deceased wife's sister, is clasped to his manly bosom as, the all-engrossing object of his afFections. We may say that the idea of classing Messrs. Sbephard and Luckie as sisters would never have suggested itself to our mind had it not been for the account given by our contemporary of the relations that are supposed to exist between them, after a perusal of which oar readers will, we are sure, pardon the license — not poetical, but editorial — that we have assumed : — " It will, no doubt, be a novelty in Nelson politics," we are told, " — or it will, at least, be a change in their recent experience — to have Mr. Luckie and Mr. Shephard opposing each other. If our estimate of circumstances does not mislead up, it was owing to Mr. Luckie's sympathies with,, and exertions for, Mr. Shephard, that the latter was placed in the position of Provincial Treasurer, with the rather unwilling assent of the Superintendent, and if our recollection does not mislead us, Mr. Luckie was also a strenuous supporter of Mr. Shephard on the occasion of his being returned to the Assembly." If it be true that two individuals between whom such intimate relations existed, and one of whom is said to owe so much to the other, are to be opponents in the great prize fight that is soon to amuse the Nelson electors, we may surely cease to wonder if a little fickleness is displayed by the Grey River Argus in its estimation of the respective merits of the two combatants who are advertised in its columns as being about to take part in what would appear to be so unnatural a struggle. Eut, having displayed so amorous a disposition, and such little inclination to be tied to one partner of his joys and sorrows, we fully expect to find that this Brigham Young of the Grey Biver has, on the day following that on which his. declaration of love was made to Mr. Luckie, so yery soon after kneeling at the feet of Mr. Shephard, flown off in pursuit of some newer and more attractive object. We can scarcely, describe the eagerness with which, after reading the Argus of Saturday and Monday, we look for the issue of Tuesday.