DR. IRVINE AND THE EXAMINER.
To the Editor of the ' J* i-xsos Evening Mail. >
Sir — I was somewhat surprised on reading a letter signed " Elector," in this morning's Examiner, accusiugDr. Irvine of employing language at the declaration of" the poll, which, to my certain knowledge, he never uttered. What Dr. Irvine did say — I quote from the Examiner's own report, was this — that "in the present election there has been an influence used which he considered a dangerous one." * * * * "He did not mean to say that the Superintendent had departed from the proper rule in this contest, but his friends had done so." Dr. Irvine never attributed blame in the matter to the Superintendent himself, but lo his friends, who certainly employed his Honor's name pietty freely during the contest. Dr. Irvine was fully justified in animadvertirg upon the manner in which Mr. Pitt's candidature was initiated by the party alluded to, for it was undisguisedly declared by the "Major Domo," as you facetiously termed him," a mistake." And the public certainly endorsed this view of the matter. I am, <fee, Elector No. 2.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 103, 4 May 1867, Page 3
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