The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1869. "ECONOMICAL BAITS."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 252, 26 October 1869, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1869. "ECONOMICAL BAITS."

We take the following from the Colonist of this morning, simply making this alteration, that as Mr. Gibbs, as well as Mr. Akeisten, voted that the Superintendent's salary should be raised to £800, we have substituted his name for that of Mr. Akersten : — "Then there is the reduction of the Superintendent's salary. Mr. Gibbs now thinks that £500, including therein. all travelling expenses, is an ample sura for the salary of the chief. How changed his opinion since 1867, when he voted £800. **#* . # * * Bravo ! Mr. Gibbs ; the new candidate is so tremendously like Cae3ar's wife, so far above the possibility of suspicion, that he now unhesitatingly proposes to reduce the £800 he then held necessary, to £400, — practically £400 — because travelling expenses, as he proposes to travel over the Province, would amount to something like £100 a year. If Mr. Gibbs had had hia way two years ago, the salary, instead of being £600, would have been £800. Charming consistency; a pretended economical bait to catch electoral gudgeons j but it is not complimentary to the electors to suppose they cannot discover the barbed hook behind Mr. Gibbs' oily words and promises, which do not square with his votes and acts." Full justice is not done in the above paragraph to the attractive manner in which Mr. Gibbs has " baited" his %< barbed hook" because that gentleman has declared that he will be satisfied with four instead of five hundred a year, his " oily words and promises" being consequently more out of the "square with his votes and acts" than is even the case with Mr. Akersten.