DEFALCATIONS OF THE I ATE TOWN CLERK.

Dunstan Times, Issue 323, 3 July 1868, Page 3

DEFALCATIONS OF THE I ATE TOWN CLERK.

(To The Editor of The Dun\staxTimf.d.) Si", —Allow me through the medium of your valuable journal, as a Citizen and Ratepayer to express my appreciation of the acts of those gentlemen, who have paid into the Treasury of the Tow i of Clyde respectively the amounts they were considered to be liaWe in, on account of the deficiency of the late Town Clerk. They have shown by their acts, that they are not above conviction ; also that they have a lively interest in the welfare of the town, even though they dip their hands into their own pockets to promote it. But, while meting justice to those who have " paid up," 1 must say a few words, perhaps not quite so flahteriu l ;, of others who have not continued their quote. I will not ment'on names, but I allude principally to one whom 1 (bought would have been ihe first to "sbe'lout," afcer having so stiono'y supported the remarks which had for tbe'r object the pa' .uent, of the debt justly due ly the Counci'lois to the tow a. I w i'l conclude w '.lb. a little bit of adv ica tbnt I hope wf' i»«t b 've offeace in aiy direction, that '», 1 would advise the Counc'l to look 1: fee they leap; in other words when ix*oi.uer bib ioe--,heet is put before loom,! not to take H "for granted, bni examine il"" Bysnciias-ty they v ill not fall '•lto sueu aiolber qun. . 're as the V-si. I am, kc. RATEPAYER.