THE BULLER NOOZE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1669, 10 December 1873, Page 2

THE BULLER NOOZE.

r The contents of the columns of a paper published at the Buller, to which we 1 made reference in serious tone on Satnr--3 day, are thus referred to in humorous B spirit by the Nelson Mail : — & The writing in its leading columns is - in that unfinished style which characterises the -requisition to Mr O'Couor. s The following complete sentence is an i example :— " The reports of the meetings i held by Mr Curtis, as a candidate for the j Superintendenoy of the Province, being 3 very often, if not always, materially int correct, strongly in Mr Ourtis's favor." r Two columns and a half (the columns s being double the ordinary width) are » filled with telegrams and extracts from private letters from Nelson, a few of D which we will quote as containing some interesting information, but before doing so we must congratulate the proprietors upon the determination they have arrived at, expressed in the following words : — " We will not publish_distorted facts." All the letters from Nelson, it may be "1 well to say, bear strong internal evidence [. of being the production of one and the same pen, and all are on the same subject —the election. In one of them dated November 19, we find that "Mr O'Conor's meeting at Motueka was not expected to be otherwise ; it is the hot bed of the clique." A vast change appears to have ' t^ken place in the hot bed within two days, for on the 23 st we are told, "Collingwood good, one in three or more ; _ Takaka more than half ; Motueka equal." ', Probably the editor had forgotten his promise " not to publish distorted facts" when he handed the above to the printer. The following is not dis- » tdrtion of facts ;—r' f The Ring (our sign) , is! getting more arid more disfigured." ' It is indeed, so far as the Ring signifies Mr O'Conor's Committee, but it will not reach the climax of disfigurement until Wednesday next. Then comes 1 a j pathetic invitation :— "Send me any J cheering news " (evidently the writer I co|uld get none in Nelson), "that can be read in Committee Room ; it does wonders, \ sojon spreads:" The Bnller Neivs should • take pity on its Nelson correspondent ' and send up some more requisitions and worthless signatures. He gets a little better spirited bub more confused later on when ' he expresses himself as follows :'— " I really would not be surprised if we polled equal to half of Curtis in the settled, aud more, if no untoward event happens to! shake confidence." Qn the 22nd he writes ; -^ *f A few minutes to spare compels me to take advantage of it," (what ?) '* and write a few lines concerning our wonderful malignant press, the Examiner and Evening Mail, the Colonist : "an independent, one if it". could." He j then becomes excited and shouts out, "The Ring,' the Ring, down with the Ring !" Having relieved his mind in this eccentric, but harmless manner, he goes on to say that one issue of tho Examiner had three columns of choice extracts from West Coast papers, and " people look at these and say, well if the Press in his own district are against him, ours must be true," ! wherein he is quite correct, except in his * grammar.* We will now go from letters to telegrams. One is dated Nelson, November 8, and treats of the nomination. - "Show of hands atjout even,'' say the wires. Seventy-two to thirty-seven, said the Returning Officer. Me, Fie, Mr Editor, remember what you promised about not publishing "distorted facts."" C Qn the 10th, the telegram is. sensational and calculated to give rise to great alarm. "Maclean supposed to be in connectipn with Nelson Ring ! Dangerous. Examiner- , and Matt abusive. 5? On the 12th, there J is sent the cheering intelligence^" Mr ~1 Kerr returned from Amuri • the whole of * t j that district is right." We are glad to say that it is y right/ but in a different sense to that in which the word is used in the above message, On the 29th, the corespondent becomes ravenous for the f cheering news " for which the ' letter writer craved on the 10th j and he telegraphs ; — "Please send {500 copies of the . Buller Neios." , Desirous as we are of seeing Mr O'Conor thoroughly well beaten, tl we trust that this order has been com- ; oc plied with, and that the Bnller JVeios"wUl' m be circulated far and wide through the .;. country, for here, where the state of public opinion 13 so well known, the -j»[ attempts to deceive the electors of West- j port as to the amount of support Mr I O'Conor is likely to receive in the settled { districts, will be fulJy appreciated.