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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 238, 3 October 1873, Page 2

HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. [advertisement], "BADGEB" BAITING. To the Edit.r of the Colonist. SIR, — The eianfc " Argus " of the Examiner (Limited), wielding his mighty weapon, has now struck two blows in two whole leading articles, intending to crush what, he calls an " unmitigated muff," and to bring the c litor of the Colonist into contempt, for the trifling cause that an article from a correspondent wa» admitted into your columns dated from Motuekn, which, in his imagination, and as he wishes the publio to believe, was written in Trafalgar-street, Kelson. N"W, Fuppossing this to be a fact, but which I most emphatically drny, what in the name ot common sense does this concern the public ? His duty was dimply to refute the argument, and expose any niis-statemcnt, and not to quibble about a narce or an address But the fact is, it was dir' ctly to the point, and was too pungent and bitiDg against the principal of his many employers for this " Yellow-plush " of the Examines to answer in any satisfactory way to himself, and for lack cf argument, he tur s savagely with " tooth and nails " upon an unoffending simp'e citizen, and an unfortunate editor — I refer to the leaders of the 27th September, and Ist October He boasts of having unearthed ' two badgers," but this inky bull-terrier, that can draw two badgers at once, h»s not the nose of a pointer, his power of scent deceives him. 'Tis true he can find oflal and vermin naturally, but signally fails when game is to be discovered. This imported dog for the nonce (( will continue his simile), no doubt will earn his living if he is very humble and subservient to his masters, and worthy the honorarium he is said to be in receipt of, for as the adage goes, " hungry <iogs eat <iirty pudding "—and the quantity of dogs-meat he may be called upon to eat (especially his own words), and digest will be something awful at the expiration of say a six months' trial. He will require a large supply of yuildud pills to keep his stomach and sleek black coat in order. There can be no doubt but that Nelson will be greatly benefited by this learned dog's importation ; we have already had a dose of" Antimony," and we expect shortly to be made acquainted with the manners and customs of the natives, past and present, not only in Australia, but roil Tasmania to Botany B<y, and a b this elegant and powerful writer's fame had been bruited & d heralded by the Examiner, months before his first appearance on the Nelson hoard 8, we may owe to his supposed tastes the genial subject, not in the penny, but the costly sixpenny c ition, of the whole true and particular account of the <l Murders of RatclilTe Highway I" To explain the small grievance I Jabor under, I cull from these leaders of the 27th September and Ist October, the various epithets and names heaped upon myself, or imputed father (for I deny the paternity of the article), and my friend the luckless editor as follows:—" Silly"—" like Cadwallader " — " coward " — " unmitigated muff" — " lotus eater"-."moonstruck"— "iat and lethargic