MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1869.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 8, 11 January 1869, Page 2

MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1869.

We confess that it was with feelings of no ordinary surprise that we Jearued that our Saturday's contemporary had been exclusively favored with the full particulars of the fall of Ngatipa, oa the East Coast. We should have thought that, after such a protracted season of inaction, and knowing full well that the people were becoming impatient, and beginning to chafe, under what, in the absence of reliable information to the contrary, they could not help considering, the supineness of the Government, Ministers would have been only too glad to have given the reassuring intelligence, the earliest and most extensive circulation. But no ! the opportunity for doing a zealous partizan a good turn, and, at the same time, dealing a back-handed blow to Nelson, was too good to be neglected, and had it not been for private enterprise, Nelaonians would have been the last in the Middle Island to have been, generally, informed of our successes on the East Coast. We fear that Nelson must make up her mind to submit to a long series of slights — if not of heavy blows and great discouragements. If the. direful effects of Juno's resentment, on account of her beauty slighted, were felt and acknowledged, for generations, what must we not expect from Mr Stafford — who, after all, is but mortal, now that he finds his great abilities unappreciated, his former services forgotten and himself discarded by ungrateful Nelson ? Such paltry vindictiveness we could pardon in an understrapper of. the Government, or even in a policeman ; but it ill comports with the dignity of one filling the exalted office of Prime Minister.