CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 281, 22 November 1873, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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To the Editor, pir the Nelson Evening Mail. Sia— l should feel obliged by your inserting the following telegrams received, one from S. Corr, Westport, and the other from Eugene O'Conor:— Westport, November 21, 5 pm* Curtis' meeting at Brighton, Cobden, want of confidence rarried against him. ', ' Papers report contrary, Few paper starred early next weeki Motueka, Novembfr 21, 5*45 p.m. Taktika, meeting success, vote confidence proposed, but amendment vote of thanks carried. Charles John Pbbceval. [We feel much obliged tj Mr Perceval ior his kind consi erat.'on in supplying ua with inforreation, but for th£ future we would request him not to trouble himself, as we have local correspondents^ our own, wh m we believe to be perfectly trustworthy.— Ed. N.E.M.

HORNY FISTED SONS OF THE SOIL., To the Editor of the Natsosf Evening Mau,. Sot — Addressed as you were by Mr O'Conor's Chairman of, Committee with the presumption that we must vote for O'Conor, let me beg of you not to be humbugged by Mr Levien's claptrap. What forsooth does he know about horny-fisted-interests? Why with such enterprising individuals Sleepy Hollow must be an Eldorado. 1 Snore, snore, beautiful snore is his perpetual music. With such champions and leaders the piece throughout stands condemned. H evil we have (and I do not deny the room for improvement) for mercy's sake don't jump out of the frying-pan into the fire ; better to bear the ills we know than those we wot not of. Be persuaded in time to, avoid such wordy trickery and mean artifices as are being resorted to to displace Mr Curtis by the cry of the "The broken Bing." It is dust thrown in our eyes to prevent our seeing the brassy ring they are endeavoring to forge around us. I I am, &c, Carlo.

■■, - v TO THE EDITOa OP THE NELBOH EVENING MAIL. Sm — That was a very nice letter of Mr Joseph Leyien'd that appeared in the Mail last night. So' characteristic ot the amiable -writer. Not having the originality, or the ability to shape a, - ; courge for himself he has humbly followediiff the footsteps of his great chief— l mean Mr O'Conor, not tfiat other potentate to whom I referred in my last— and has ' not hesitated to misquote my words. He says:— Nelsonlan's r <! brilliant article finally concludes with his informing the ' qpper classes ' that his Satanic majesty has- found -me employment for many years past." He places the words " upper classes " between inverted commas, evidently with a view to. Jndueing the pubiifr-tq believe that I had made use of the expression. But I did nothing of the kind, and he r kno7s^* He is perfectly well aware, that it Is he, and not myself, or r.ny of " Mr. Curtis' party ," who haa attempted to set class against class. With hia innate love of mischief making, and knowing as ~ he does that he is supporting a cause that is altc->: gether hopeless, Mr. Joseph Levien has not hesitated to iueult the working men ot the province by insinuating that they are to be led away by so stupid a cry as that which he has chosen to raise. Himself a drone, he is seeking to lead the busy bees astray. He wants to induce the working men to believe that one who has done his beat 1 to' put a stop to public works in the province is the man whom they should rslly round as the working man's friend. Bat it wili not answer. " The horny handed sons of the soil and the true laborer and mechanic " are not so foblih as Mr Levien wishes he could believe. They are capable of forming their own opinions quite irrespective of the tittle tattle of idle gossipers who have nothing better to do than to stir up strife, and know no greater enjoyment than that of seeing people quarrelling. Mr Levien is well known in Nelson, far too well known, and, disappointed as he must be at finding what a miserable failure he ia about to achieve in his endeavor to thrust upon the people of tbe province a Superintendent who is totally unfitted for the office, he should make an alteration ia the ostentatious affix he has attached to his signature, and if he be sufficiently unwise to write any more letters to the press, eign himself for the future — J. H. Levien, Chairman of the Public Enemy's Committee, Sign of the Broken Heart. lam, &c. A Neisoniah;