Correspondence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3021, 2 March 1881, Page 2

Correspondence.

VAMPIRES

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir, —As a hearty admirer of tbat great and noble character, Charles Bradlaugh, M.P., whose projected onslaught upon Imperial peueions, the prelude no doubt to other Herculean labours, you commemorate in your local columns of yesterday, I hail the advent of a state of things when recipients of salaries in any shape or form shall cease to be. I invite your readers again to study tbe stupendous list contained in your paragraph, and with me to gloat over tbe victory to which our heroic leader urges us. But my immediate object is not Imperial

pensions. There is a vulture in our very midst gnawing our inmost vitals. Little do the unftrtunate ratepayers of this benighted borough think of tbe enormous sums which will be expended out of the contributions which will be extracted (in what is really but a short period) out of their reluctant pockets. Municipal engineer, say £300 for 1000 years, £300,000 ; Town Clerk, say £400 for 500 years, £200,000; interest on loans at various rates, for ever, say £10,000,000; and muddling for ever and a day also, at various rates, from 2s 6d in the £ and upwards, say £50,000,000. Is there no mimic Bradlaugh to help us ?

" No battering ram No Marciiant who may Lamb The hideous structure down '?" —In the words of your paragraph, "the list is far from complete, but the amount here set down exceeds " belief.—l am, &Ci,

FoDDLB

P.S.—The blank in the above immortal lines of poetry I have judiciously left for the insertion of the name of the Councillor who may adopt the suggestion contained in this effusion.