REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 374, 22 March 1871, Page 2

REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS.

With such an example set them by the City Commissioners, it is not surprising that our suburban municipalities should, in their small way, try to emulate our metropolitan civic Board. Yesterday evening the Highway Board of Parnell bad one of those scenes which We had almost come to believe to be exclusively characteristic of Canada Buildings. It appears that certain persons had come in to the Board-room to hear the debates. The attention of the chairman was drawn to the circumstance of there being " strangers in the house." On the chairman exercising the authority in him vested, by requesting strangers to withdraw, one of the Board denounced his ruling, aad, in defiance, ordered strangers to remain. Another of the trustees hereupon took on himself to carry out the chairman's ruling, and "pitchedinto"one of the " strangers," reducing him to a recumbent position over a chair, at the same time charging him with a conspiracy against the rights and liberties of Parnell. As the " stranger" happens to be a stump orator of no meau magnitude in his own estimation, his offended dignity naturally resented such summary process; and as a consequence, on Friday next, in the Auckland Police Court, we shall "be treated to a fresh chapter on the courtesies and amenities of representative institutions.