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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 178, 25 July 1873, Page 4

Me Joseph Ivess, M. P. C. — This worthy gentleman does not appear ro find favor with the West Coast press. In commenting upon his recent speech at Reefton, the Charleston Herald says : — "Patiently wading through the six closely-printed columns which impliedly present a faithful and carefully revised record of his utterances, searching*; dilligently hither and thither for some few golden grains of common sense, and finding none in the overcharged and heaped up measure of measureless chuff, a feeling of crn fusion and distrustful pity is engendered ihat the waning dignities of Provincial Councildom should be still more debased by the iilcoDditioned vagaries of its youngest member. A terse and significant cognomen for the loaDgahua member would be "Egotistical Ivees," a similarly significant definition of his utterances might be suggested by the terra egotistical drivel, for to nothing else can bis speech be so aptly

compared as the inane and querulous babblings of an effete octogenarian, wbo, outstripped in the race of human life by competitors moro lusty of brain and muscle, maunders by the way, and with dimmed perceptions finds in all things naught but evil. The qualities of manliness, vigorous thought, worldly knowledge, courtesy, and friendly intent, which to Jail Councillors are most needful, are conspicuous by their absence in this case, and the entire mass of verbiage paraded in print, as the deliberate speech of Mr Joseph Ivess should cause his most devoted political friends to hide their diminished heads in disappointment and sore travail. * * * Nor will he gain honor in abusing his colleagues and experienced seniors. On the contrary, in continuing to do so he will retaliate upon no one more than himself, except to this extent, he will give to those who scoff at an extension of political power on tho goldfields on opportunity of saying eneerinaly, — ' See ! with all your vaunted ability, you can send to tbe Council Chamber nothing better than a mere talking animal, filled to overflowing with selfsufficiency, and whose every word is charged with mischief against yourselves.'" 1