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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 31, 4 February 1879, Page 2

To THE ECITOK OF THE 'EyENING MAIL.' Sir— To electors doubting how to vote at the coming election, I commend the perusal of Mr Sclanders' able and sensible speech, Avoiding the vexed question of education as beiog not nearly so important to Nelson as that of the railway, Mr Sclanders points out to the electors that Mr Acton Adams has equal, if not superior, ability to Mr Pitt as a politician, whilst (to Mr Sclanders' knowledge) his energy is untiring, and his persistency simply irrepressible, and, in addition to these qualifications, Mr Adams, by his property in Nelson, gives the electors the strong and real guarantee of self-interest for vigorous action towards obtaining our railway. ; Electors, too, cannot overlook the fact that their representative will be paid £200 for about three months' work, and that, if returned, Mr Adams will leave his business behind him in Nelson and devote all his time, entirely and exclusively, to the public business and interests of his constituents, whilst Mr Pitt will, dnring the session, carry on in Wellington a regular law business that may add considerably to his yearly receipts, ia addition to the £100 he gets for commanding the Volunteers. Mr Pitt gives no

guarantee, like Mr Acton iMams, lor duly attending to his Parliamentary duties, and on being questioned, would only promise to devote all " necessary " time to them. And when we hare sent trim to Wellington we cannot tell whether he is pleading a case in Court or present in his place in the Ho.*we. It is universally admitted that the work in the House, with Committees in the morning, and sittings from 2 p.m. till about 2 a.m., completely exhausts all the powers of the members who watch their constituents' interests, and as Mr Pitt intends to carry on a Court business in addition, it is clear that he cannot subtract the time " necessary " for that from tbe time which he will be paid to give to his onstitnents. Nelson is in so precarious a position that, as an elector, I protest against not getting all our representative's time, especially as he is well paid for it, and I am sure that a man who looks after our interests properly will have no time either for a private law business nor for inspecting Volunteers, however profitable to him both occupations may be. I am, &c, Elector. Nelson, February 3, 1879.