THE ANTONIOS ELECTION.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 78, 16 February 1877, Page 2

THE ANTONIOS ELECTION.

[TO THB EDITOB INANGAHUA TIMES.] Sia—Since you quietly and so completely •• sat upon " your contemporary over the miner's right qualification business. I notice that he has slunk into his shoes, or, in otber words has not had the pluck to since show his diminished editorial bead on the subject. There is nothing like putting a complete " squash »* on some men. But though he has not got tbe courage of bis opinions, I see tbat he has endeavored to father his idiotic notions on the public under the garb of spurious correspondents' letters. Does

he in aU his huge littleness imagine that people are to be tickled by such shallow deception ? If he does its himself he is fooling and not tbe publio. He no donbt considered his effeminate remarks upon "Elector's" letter fearfully severe and clever \ but then you know he looks at everything obliquely, and perhaps that accounts for it, I am glad to see that " Elector " did not consider him worth a reply. He certainly adduced nothing to > upset the arguments of " Elector." He certainly did say " twaddle, " trash," and ail that sort of thing, but that is his "logical" way of doing the thing. A worsted man, if vain of himself, is always peevish— a cross cat will spit when it cannot bite, I don't know how he feels over the matter, but to most people it must appear that he took up a position that upon the first assault he was unable to maintain, and therefore sneeked out of it in the only way open to him— collapsing like an air bubble. I am, &c, Anothbb Flectob, Reefton, February Htb, 1877.