The Charleston Herald says:—

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 144, 17 June 1873, Page 2

The Charleston Herald says: —

Factious and stupid opposition was, unfortunately /Offered to. the proposal by Mr O'Conor,; and we need hardly add, as also ; by "his man Friday," Mr Ivess. For it may be remarked of these two good men and true that whatever one asserts the other swears 10,-Hat least it; would appear to be the case. Mr O'Conor's opposition was solely based on the puny grounds that, whereas the ■ resolution before the Council stated in effect that the railway should benefit the whole province, he contended the expression was too general, in fact untrue, in as much as it would not benefit the whole province froin the fact that it ; would not benefit Westport! Mr Ivess gave a still more peculiar reason for following in his friend and brother's footsteps. He had gone to the Council prepared to oppose the scheme, and if he now voted for it his r constituents would consider him an early convert id the face of previously expressed opinions — in other words a turncoat. It mattered not to Mr Ivess that the circumstances of the case were entirely changed, nor that with the change, ih opposing the scheme he would '; be likewise opposing the interests' of his constituents-7-h.e had promised to do a certain thing and be intended to do it at any sacrifice. Quoth he "my constituents shall not have it to throw in my teeth that I did not uphold my electioneering promises." Mr Ivess is young, though perhaps promising in politics, but if he

would improve he Omus^ltpla^e;; himself; under tter^tutor tliii£ :_*& wholn^hep appears^to ha ve^chosen tal lh islpatrbn ; ifj^ not he will find! himsel^sk3^rdly^^iabedl on occasions when he will least relish iti: * * .* - * -'*"'- ■'.' '*;'. / '*v;Jj^lC: Under the altered circumstances we; are> entirely at one with the proposed project; - and shall be pleased to see it carried but with all convenient speed.

Speaking of the prssent drinking habitsof the Scottish people, the ' Scotsman' says : — ■" B'yf discountenancing pleasures we have succeeded in. educating the great mass of the people : to have -no/ taste for any enjoyment but that of drinking whisky ; and now when whisky--drinking-has through our own action attained the dimensions of a gigantic evil, we are driven to consider by what means,' repressive or otherwise, we can undo our own work, aDd extinguish or restrict it."

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