AFFAIRS MUNICIPAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 389, 27 April 1880, Page 3

AFFAIRS MUNICIPAL.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail,

Sin, —Theie is no uncertain sound when , Mr Denning speaks. He is, without doubt, ihe Hercules to clean out the Augean f tables. If be tells a fib or two, no matter. ■We believe all the same he is telling the truth, and in accordance with his convictions he lays his plaint on purely sordid motives, and finally suggests to the ratepayers of your Pcdlingtonian borough to sweep the pieces off the board, and commence the game de novo. Very good! Mr llenm'ng. I like your measures, they are so thoroughly practical, free, and honest; they press.-nt a bold English front; but — this little word puts an end to my lubricator}' propensities, and suggests another word, which is " Fair Play, Old Boy." One at a time. The Akaroa Mail started thequairy, Mr Hcnning followed with a hue and cry ; the old game, "Men's evil deeds are writ in brass." Their virtues, of course, arc always nil. Why was the £140 not recovered during the terms of the two piovious Mayors V Was it reserved for the present Mayor to clean out the Augean :-tabic y Diil not your present Mayor obtain a considerable sum of money from the Wainui Read Board; and was he not elected to tbe office on two occasions by a hirge majority ; and is this not sufficient proof thai the ratepayers are satisfied with bis conduct V I can fully appreciate the painful position in which tbe Mayor is placed, when Councillors, in making pergonal attacks upon each other, set at defiance all rules of decency and order. He would have to be considerable of a pugilist, indeed, to rule those very unruly boys ; and as a friend of mine, and an Irishman of course, remarked, that if there be any difference in them, they arc all alike, and equally all to blame. i Yours, &c, ! OUTSIDER.