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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 9 December 1881, Page 2

In defiance of all friendly dissuasion, Mr M'Lean has apparently made tip his mind to go to the poll to-clay, and brave tbe verdict. Mr M'Lean is of coarse master of big own actions, and no one has a right to quarrel with him for his conduct, however mistaken and ill- advised ;it may be. By this time he is, or ought to be, pretty well satisfied what his chance is, and if in the face of every* thing he persists in rushing to certain defeat he baa only himself to blame. Under any other circumstances than the present we are not prepared io sky that Mr M'Lean would not stand a good chance of election, but forcing bis candi' dature at a moment when the utmost support of his best friends is enlisted beyond retraction for another candidate. he (Mr M'Lean) is doing V double wrong —a wrong to himself, and a wrong to his friends. It would be an outrage to the intelligence of Mr M'Lean's friends to believe that they really seriously think he stands even the ghost of a chance. They cannot think anything of the kind, and it should be therefore pointed out to those electors who may feel disposed to vote for him that every vote 30 given will simply aid Mr Beeves' return, for every vote given for Mr M'Lean to-day will be a vote taken from Mr Weston, and although we are surely confident that the latter gentlemen will be returned in spite even of the division, still we ask Mr M'Let*n'f* friends to seriously consider the situation before entering the polling booth, and not to allow their private regard for Mr M'Lean to outweigh their own, good sense. The bare possibility of tbe con* stituency being thrown for another three years into the negligent care of Mr Beeves ought in all seriousness to rouse every man with a stick of property in the district to a due sense of the importance of tbe occasion, and the only one way out of tbe difficulty is to • Vote for Weston. Fobihcomino events cast their shadows ; before. Both Mr Beeve9 and Mr M 1 L?au proceeded to Black's Point last night, to address the electors, but although tbe meetings had been advertised and the beifman paraded the streets for an hour, only three persons could be induced to attend, and after waiting half' an hour longer, but without any increase in the attendance, the two candidates left for fteefton with their eloquence uncorked. This surely looks' rather blue for the " coming mnn ?"