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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 32, 5 February 1879, Page 2

To the Editob op the " Evening Mail."

Sib,— l observe from Mr Adams' puff advertisement that a gentleman rejoicing in the name of Haddow will make a speech and give me a few words of advice at Mr Adams' meeting. I f ee l flattered by the attention this gentleman would bestow upon me; but I shall not be present to hear his words of wisdom 33 I cannot deny myself the pleasure of going with the crowd this evening to the Theatre Royal to hear the popular Pitt wire into Ins unpopular rival and the crew of wind-bag weather cocks with whom of late he has associated. The public are so tired of listening to the Adams' twaddle and the set speeches of his satellites that nearly everybody mentally determined to go to the popular Pitt's meeting when it was first announced, and now I understand the few who thought at one time of going to hear Adams have changed their minds owing to the intimation that Mr Haddow will do the speechifying. The Nelson people have not forgotten Mr Haddow's last public exhibition when the waggish Levien characterised his short witted and long winded address on the salvation of Nelson as being a forcible reminder of the historical event when Lome was saved by the cackling of geese If not taking too great a liberty with the wise Mr Haddow I should suggest that when in his discourse he reaches the everlasting Adamite topic of education be devotes a portion of his wisdom to the important subject of grammar for the special edificatiou of his candidate. Just fancy how the Wellington people must have smiled when they read the amusing criticism in the Post on the absurd errors in Adams' address. Keally unless some wise man like Mr Haddow takes Mr Adams in hand at once I fear he will injure his reputation in Wellington as an author " and what will then be thought of that wonderful pamphlet? There are some points touching the statutory business and other matters which I could very properly have brought under Mr Haddow's notice, but 1 feel it is scarcely fair to further distress mm and these matters, together with that of the latest puff on superior ability, will receive full attention on Mr Pitt's platform. The present time is no doubt a trying time for the Adamites. They know that to-night Pitt, who now means mischief, will not snare them in their two faced tricks, and that to morrow the electors will read them a lesson they will not soon forget by placing the Pitt at the

head of the poll, for talent and integrity must prevail.— l am, &c, ANTI-BuNKOrf.

To the Editor of the " Evening Mail." Sir, — Mr Pitt appears to have got himself into sao" trouble in this election. First he is reported to have pledged himself to the Roman Catholics to support Curtis's Education Bill in return for their " block vote" in the election. Afterwards at his public meeting he specially pledged that he never had yet, nor would he. pledge himself to the Catholics for any such purpose, at the same time stating that he quite agreed with Curtis's Bill, which he certainly did not understand, because he plainly said those who availed themselves of the Act. if it became law, (which God forbid) would have to pay the teachers with (heir ovm money, but he afterwards admitted that the salaries as well as the expenses of these denominational schools will have to be paid out of the pockets of the taxpayers of the countty. Mr Pitt afterwards, in canvasing an elector, said to him " 1 am sure to win beexuse I have tecured all the Catholic vote*, and I do not iutend to support Mr Curtis's Bill, because J see a better way out of the difficulty." To have been correct he ought to have said that a better way of getting out of the supposed difficulty had been suggested to him by Mr Adams' Committee, and having adopted these as his own, and come to an understanding concerning the block vote, Mr Pitt is expected tonight to renounce allegiance to Curtis's Bill, and attempt to assume an independent position. The only result of such a course now will be to hurl him on Thursday next down to the innermost depths of the unfathomable Pitt.— l am, &c, Ax Elector.

To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Sir, — Mr Pitt's failure as a tactician in this election does not augur well for his success as a politican in the House. One day he publicly declared that he had no sympathy whatever with the Roman Catholic attack upon Mr Acton Adams for his bold resistance to their demands, the next he pandered to them by causing to be published a defamatory Roman Catholic advertisement against him. Surely Mr Pitt does not hope to hoodwink the electors of Nelson in this way. His speech, his whole conduct during the election, reminds me forcibly of the Shakesperian saying — " Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i' the adage."* I ask the electors of Nelson to reflect that if they cannot fix a candidate to any particular views before his election, how are they likely to control him afterwards Let the electors pause therefore before it is too late and "by rallying round the staudard of secular national education " show to Mr Pitt, Mr Curtis, and their Roman Catholic supporters, by their votes for Mr Acton Adams to-morrow, that class education has bad its day and that Nelson realises the privileges of freedom, and for the future refuses to be ruled by the orders of the Roman Catholic Church.-— I am &c, Young New Zealand.