MR FISH IN HIS DO-ALL ("DUAL") CAPACITY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2461, 5 January 1871, Page 2

MR FISH IN HIS DO-ALL ("DUAL") CAPACITY.

To the Editor of the Ecenhvj Star. Sir —It was with a feeling nearly approaching to indignant disgust that I read Mr Vogel’s letter (published by you last evening), addressed to the gentleman who is at present responsible for sustaining the “dignity ” of the office of Mayor of this City. The necessary expenses of a meeting cal’cd by Mr Fish, in compliance with the request of eight hundred or a thousand citizen-, should most undoubtedly either have been paid by Mr Fish himself out of his L4OJ a year, or charged as a .matt .r of course to tl. c account of the Corporation. The idea . f asking a gentleman who kindly yields to the request of the citizens presented to hin through their Mayor to pay the expense rendered necessary by such compliance, seems to me to be about on a par with sending in to your invited guest an account of setting forth the various items of “expenditure rendered necessary by reason of your having accepted my invitation to dine !” When Mr Fish, holding in his hand a requisition from the citizens of Dunedin to him (*.«., Mr Fish, not Mr Vogel) to call a public meeting for the purpose of affording them an opportunity of hearing Mr Vogel explain the Covernm mt policy sought an interview' with Mr Vogel, any other man than one blessed with the ability of a;ting in a ‘ ‘ dual capacity ” would have express d himself to this effect:—“lf I yield to the request of the citizens and call the in ;etiug will you attend and address it Mr Fish however chooses to strike a bargain about the paltry expense of advertising his own acts.

The bargain being struck Mr Fish seems aga : u to have presented himself at the Treasurer’s door ; this time specially in his “ dual capacity ” of the great civic dignitary of Dune lin and the poor understrapper of the Masonic Hall Company, with what obi ject and result, thanks be to yqu for publishing Mr Vogel's l.ttor, the public arc well aware. Your?, &c., CrnzKX. Jan. sth, 1871.