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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 261, 1 December 1876, Page 2

To the Editor of the -Evening Mail. 5 Sm— My attention has been directed to a very insolent and intemperate article appearing this morning in your contemporary^ the Colonist, in reference to my speech at the Tadinor. Such deserves to be treated only

with contempt and pity, as simply the splenetic ravings of a disappointed and envious pseudo-politician, nor would I deign to notice an assailant ao clumsy and brutal, but that he has dragged in the name of one of our oldest and most respected settlers; I believe it therefore only just to state that there was an omission in the report of my address, viz, " Stoke, Waimea East, and Waimea West" ought to have stood first upon his schedule of the Waimea Riding. But, after all, did such an omission justify so V much abuse? Let me remark, en pjssant, that our self-conceited and jaundiced friend would in my opinion be more usefully employed in discharging the important functions of an editor with at least honor and honesty, even if with lack of ability, than in penning vulgar tirades, such as can only have the effect of rendering himself and his newspaper ridiculous.— l am, &c, Arthur R. o_iy_b. Shelbourne-street, Nov. 30, 1876. -^ " -*