A PROMISING YOUNG MAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1266, 2 May 1883, Page 2

A PROMISING YOUNG MAN.

[ TO THE EDITOR. ] Sir,— A telegram headed '« Aliaura, April 23," appeared in the Argus, giving a glowing account of Mr Shaw'a meeting, and stating that the meeting hissed Mr Ellis. Allow me through the columns of your paper to state it was not Mr Ellis the meeting hissed, but Mr Shaw, on acconut of not being 1 able .o contradict any of Mr Ellu» statements. It seems that your correspondent is elated with Mr Shaw's speech at Nelson Creek, but a weaker and more miserable oration on the political and financial position of the colony was never delivered in Nelson Creek by any aspirant to political honors. . Yet he is a fluent speaker, and gave a home thrust to the ininetv^--He is to abolish the gold duty with one stroke of the pen, to reduce the miner's rights to five shillings .witii another, and reduce other taxes to a mere nothing. For the butchers and cattle drivers, he is to make a dray • road from Ahaura to Canterbury. For Nelson Creek people, he is tom&kea dray road from Hatter's Terrace to Brace's paddock. And he guarantees all those great works within a twelve- , month. He is also to start the railway from Bruunertori'fr Nelson Creek , at once, and continue it to Canterbury* and all this seems to be withiu his grasp without consulting any of the eighty or. more members of the House. Not like Mr Waken'eld, he told mi he would do his best to fulfil his promises if he got the majority of iuamb&& cm his side. .„. . I would like to ask if Mr Shaw tnU filled all the promises he made in the Grey Valley formerly. It seems not, unless he was compelled, and one of them is Mi- EL is' which he had to admit the other night. But Mr $kaw r like most lawyers, found a loophole to get out of it. He put the blame. 'On' Messrs Gordon and O'Connor. He is" -. to put the hospitals on the same footing , as harbor boards. Major Atkinson's ' national insurance scheme he tore to shreds and throw it in the waste paper basket. Hi; will support the present Ministry in all things, because there • is none in the Opposition side fit to form a Ministry. The land leasing is an i'liquitous law. When he gets to he Mnister of Justice he will remove Wai-den's periodically. ■-'■• The above are a few of the promised given by Mr Shaw at Nelson Creek. MINEB. - * Nelso^Crcck, April 24. r _'- ! :-.\iL*L.