The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1878.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 113, 13 May 1878, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1878.

There was a lively meeting at Kaik<?ura the other night when Mr H. Ingle* iiddfce&iied the electors, and wis tfifen followed by Mr flattti'dfeto. In the course of his speech, the latter gentleman referred to a scurrilous article in the Rangiora Standard, and explained that the fact upon which it based its falsehoods was the one event in his public life of which he was most pfoUdj iind which he most hopfed his descendants would remember. Going to prison should always be a disgrace, and it generally waa so, but it was sometimes the highest honor that could be recorded of a man. Hampden, Elliot, and other men of whom the world was not worthy, had been immortalised by going to prison, and such names would ever be remembered with a degree of reverence that they would not have obtained without the ' prison. On the other hand there were many ! hired libellers who ought to be in prison, and I were not, simply because they were too contemptible for anyone to take the trouble to put them there. He believed the editor of ! the Rangiora Rag was some marriage connection of Mr Ingles.— Upon this, Mr Ingles immediately rose and said the writer was a j man that he would not speak to at a dog fight! He entirely agreed with all Mr Saunders had said on that subject, as he i remembered the event well.— A Mr Gibson then moved a resolution to the effect that the meeting thanked Mr Ingles for his address, but regretted that he should have come forward after the elector* had ao un- J animously expressed their confidence in Mr Saunders. This was seconded by Mr Par- 1 sons, who said that ha thought Mr Ingles had not acted rightly by the electora, as af tar having definitely and repeatedly said that nothing would induce him to come forward, he now appeared in the field at the eleventh hour as the nominee of SiE Cracroft Wilson and a clique of Southern squattara. Every one admitted that Mr Inglea had made a good whip for the Stafford party. He believed that the great qualifications necessary for a whip were a smooth tongue, an elastic conscience, and a Btomach like a crocodile! But theae were not exactly the qualiflcationa he much valued in a man to represent him. An amendment was then proposed expressive of confidence in Mr Ingles. On this being seconded, the Chairman, says the Marlborough Exptess, « crushed the original resolution in his hand and threw it under the table," then put the amendment and declared it carried. Mr Saunders called for a show of hands, to be counted by aome impartial person, which the Chairman evidently was not. On thia being taken, the reauit was declared to be 9 for the amendment and 24 against it. Mr Inglea then proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman. Mr Saunders said he could not second a vote of thanks to a Chairman who had acted aa Mr Gooch had done, and the motion dropped. So ended this very amusing meeting.