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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 20, 21 January 1876, Page 2

To igE Editor op the • Evening Mail.' Sir— l Bee;by your correspoh9ent'B repori of the;;declaration of the. poll for Waimea South, :'thab:; the proposer of E Mr Shephard could not rest without haying a last fling at . .Vlr Baigerit. ' It appears to '■•'me that he an<i his chief have fallen into a habit that I have heard the lawyers have when they have a had case, viz., of abusing the opposite side. I think it due to Mr Baigent and the electors who voted for him, to emphatically deny that either Mr Baigent or hia friends ,beg«ed or prayed for a ypte for him, in fact, %h-i reverst was the else; A well known saw/er at Pox- I hill told two of hU sons that they ought to j vote for Mr Baigent, as his son took laroe quantitiea'bf "timber from thetii. Upon' hear-" ing this Mr Baigent made it a point to call upon them;and^requested theni not to bs'inftuenced in the way they intended to rote by •ny transactions they had with his sou . -. What Mr Baigent did was to call upon a number of his old Iriends and acquaintances to ascertaiii if they could or would endorse Mr Shepbard'a peculiar opinion of hia principles, viz, " envy, hatred, malice, and all unchari--capleness." If -the shepherd Uacl b'eea a goo!!, shepherd, and had looked* after his fl)cka little more himself, and had not trusted so tnur h tojßyoophauts and place hunters, it is pofsible that the result of the poll would have been different. , I thiak Mr, Shephard's pro-; . : p6iser : uniritentionally paid ; Mr . Baigent'B ; friends a high compliment for the energy they displayed in carrying the point at whiph they aimed, and it isa ( pity that he did not 1 bostle and cork his spleen for another occasion. I have no doubt that the Returning Qfficer and the, two other electors felt greatly edified by his Elaborate speech.— T! am, &c; .:•.,■" • :? An Elbctob. Wakefield, Jan. 18, 1876.