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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 233, 13 October 1879, Page 2

To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Sir,— ln the leading matter in Thursday's issue of the Mail the question is asked : — " What has Mr Pitt ever done that he should be regarded as one likely to eat his own woids, and to cast to the winds the pledges and promises he had made only a month previously in his various addresses to the electors ? " In my opinion the question is an injudicious one. Mr Pitt is very young in politics, but nevertheless, he has, like many other politicians, already shown that he can politically eat his own words. In February last he contested an election for a seat in Parliament, as an advocate of Denominational Education, and lost ; in August he issued an address to the electors of Waimea South, in which he stated that his views on the subject of education were that it should be free, secular, and compulsory. These fncts " tell their own story," and are not a good "excelsior." Notwithstanding the above, I still believe Mr Pitt is an honorable and upright man, and I should not have troubled you with the above had you not challenged it by your question, I am, &c, FoRTT-AND-TWO.