BELL WARD.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2346, 8 October 1870, Page 2

BELL WARD.

To the Editor of the Erenunj Star. Sir—A letter appeared in your issue of Thursday evening last, signed “ Ratepayer,” in which he complains that Bell Ward should he made to pay the expenses on the late action—Woodland v. Bagley—and follows his remarks by 'rusting the ratopapen will resist this iniquitous aggression on their funds, and let the saddle he put on the right horse, and his Worship the Mayor learn in future to act with some more caution. .Now I would ask “Ratepayer” if lie is awaic that Mr Bagley, through Mr Harris, his solicitor, offered Mr Woodland to retire from the Council, so as to save the cost of any legal proceedings, hut ho would go to a fresh election ; hut this offer was refused, and Mr Bagley was s-rved with a process which compelled him to defend this vexatious action ; consequently the blame of thrusting the ward in the late suit at law was the entile fault of Mr Woodland, who now conics forward with an election cry, calling on the ratepayers on the hustings to the great injustice done them ; it will be, therefore clearly seen hy “Ratepayer” that Air Woodland is the right man to blame. I regret bas ing to put my pen on paper to rpfqte such a calumny as “Ratepayer” wishes to east upon our esteemed and respected Mayor ; hut I do so feeling that my fellow-citizens would consider I was right in exposing such a flagrant misrepresentation of facts. I am, &c., CmzE.N.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir—As the Mayor has thought proper in a letter in your issue of yesterday to introduce my name in connection with that of Mr Carroll in a very offensive maner, 1 hope you will give me space for a few remarks. By the term be applies to Mr Carroll (in this ii)stanco"a very inapposite one), I can guess the meaning he would convey—that in my public actions 1 am controlled by Mr Carroll. To this I give a flat contradiction. Mr Carroll, a warm supporter of mine, believing, in common with all who \oted for me, that a great injustice had been done me, determined with them to assist me in obtaining redress. Many expected that the respect for the office he held and the example of his predecessors would have induced the Mayor to keep his private animosities in abeyance, and refrain from the use of insulting personalities. His interference in the late election for Bell Ward, and the strong opposition he offered to my return, contrast very unfavorably with the conduct of the gentlemen who have hitherto tilled the office or Mayor. As his Worship would have it appear that he knows a little Latin, I willconcouclude with a line, the meaning and application of which cannot be mistaken. Si nature,m expcl/ns /urea u-n/ue rcd'dnt. I am, &c., William Woodland, George street. George street, October S, 1870.