The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY MAY 2, 1867.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 101, 2 May 1867, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY MAY 2, 1867.

Thursday, 4.45 p.m

The contest for the City election to-day resulted in the return of Mr. Pitt, by a majorit}' of 107.

A public meeting, convened at the instance of Messrs. J. Webb and R. Burn, the proposer and seconder of Dr, Irvine, was held at the Temperance Hall, last night, in order to afford both the candidates respectively for the vacant seat in the Provincial Council another opportunity of stating thei.i opinions on various questions of public interest, previous to the day of polling. The meeting Avas at first but thinly atteuded, but as the evening advanced, the hall became quite filled. Mr. Hornby having been called to the chair, Dr. Irvine, Avho Avas received very enthusiastically, first addressed the meeting, (Mr. Webb having explained the circumstances Avhich had led to his nomination and the subsequent demand for a poll,) and after combatting the assertion that had beeu made by his opponents, to the effect that he was personally opposed to the Superintendent, dwelt, in detail, on the various public Avorks, in the promotion of which he had been deeply interested, and which he had always striven to forward at very considerable trouble to himself. Dr. Irvine then adverted to a letter which had appeared in that evening's issue of the Evening Mail, signed, "Looker-on," charging him with breaking a solemu promise voluntarily given to the electors, by allowing himself to go to the poll, after having said he would not do so, if the show of hands was against him. He explained that the matter rested entirely with the electors who had brought him forward, and emphatically expressed his determination not to go on with his candidature unless the meeting relieved him from all blame on the subject by expressing their decided opinion on the matter. Mr. Pitt at once declared that he considered that Dr. Irvine had violated no pledge in coining forward, and Mr. Burns having proposed a resolution, intended to convey this meaning, it was put to the meeting aud carried amidst loud cheers. Dr. Irvine then expressed his gratification that the question of drainage was so soon to receive attention, aud his intention, if elected, to support the conferring of municipal powers upon this city, and to bring in a measure Avhich would tend to relieve the farmers from the present too frequeut system of mortgaging. Mr. Pitt; Avho was received quite as

warmly as his opponent, then addressed the meeting, combatting some of the statements made by Dr. Irvine in his letters to the Exannner on various public works proposed to be carried out in Nelson. After expressing his opinion that an amendment should be made in some objectionable features iu the Licensing Ordinance, so that a discretionary power as to the infliction of fines might be exercised by the Magistrates, he announced his intention to support the Superintendent as far as he consistently could do so, and if returned, would do his best to advance the interest of the city as well as of the province generally. After some question — pertinent and impertinent — had been put to Mr. Pitt, the meeting separated, a vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman.