AFFAIRS MUNICIPAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 393, 11 May 1880, Page 2

AFFAIRS MUNICIPAL.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail. Sik, —Since Mr Henning has taken so much trouble in reply to my previous questions, perhaps you will allow me a small portion of space for a reply. Mr 11. commences his epistle in reply to my •' questions by stating the reply to this is so and so, &c. Surely, he ought to give us dates and clear and undoubted proof, -~ \ because, as an impartial outsider, I cunno t +

aeceptof his mere opinion, however much b*s himself may be convinced of the cnlpibllity of the person he wishes to have t|ied at the Bar of J'li'blic opinion ; besides, lifl haa not proved the mayoral responsibility, and it certainly does seem very etrange to me that Mr Hennintr should have chosen the present opportunity, when ffffairn municipal are under a cloud, to justify his resignation of long ago, by faying grave chafes at the mayoral fhreshold. There ie, on the face of the Whole affair, a certain want of good taste ftnd gentlemanly feeling in the assertion £hat the Mayor is eelely to blame, and il ■ fclame exists, why not divide the reupona Vibility on the shoulders of the whole Council ? It is well knowa that your respected Mayor is a very old colonist, who has β-nt a lifetime devoted to the welfare of ARroa, while his zeal, integuty, and manly inde.pendt.nc in whatever public Rapacity he has been enntrnsted, I never remember to have been questioned, and 1 am personally acquainted with his history during the past quarter of a century. He lias watched with a fatherly care the trowtli find progress of your town and iatfict froKu its earliest infancy—long, long before was heard ot in IflKew ZeaVati •! *ye, ere he was puking in criMVe, but then we can easily excuse f oVgive him, like a schoolboy, and I be very loth to question or dispute in his learned disquisition on the lubricator?, and as he has assumed heavy role -of Iniquistic authority, I leave him to chuckle in his happiness hie own favorite pet parrot of comparison. Yet I'have no intention oi wish to follow him in his choice repertory of words expressing ill feeling towards an unknown opponent, but 1 do sincerely hope that he is only a_ single individual and that a generous community will ungrudgingly put up with the one or two windbags who sometimes drop in a line or two in favour of their old friends and fair play, for— ~.•,, j "They speak no ill and a kindly word Can never leave a sting behind." Kindly allow me one more puff at Mr Henning and I am done. Why does he term the publicans a wretched cart at the last election ? Yours, &c, OUTSIDER.