THE £2 to £1 SUBSIDY.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2498, 17 February 1871, Page 2

THE £2 to £1 SUBSIDY.

To the Editor of the Evening Star.

Sir, —Mr Fish in his remarkable letter published in the Daihj Timex, has attributed to Mr Macandrew the grossest injustices; and charges him with intentionally misleading him as to the particular action that he took in the Indust ial School, and the L2 to LI subsidy to Road Boards. Ml’ Fish hasj since discovered that Mr Macandrew is not entitled to any credit on the former matter; that such credit, if any, must be given to Mr Branigan. I think it hardly necessary to inform the public and His' Worship, and if he think fit to believe-it, that Mr Macandrew, with all duo regard to justice, always acknowledged that he first received the suggestion to establish such an institution from the reports of My Brqnigan, and all that he presumes tp lay "claim lof is that hje‘ acted upon the suggestion, and we have now the Industrial School. These facts arc manifestly so well known, that one i* astonished to see the Mayor trying to convince the public that the facts are otherwise. But, 1 Sir, my surprise }s increased when Mr Fish begins to lay before the public the question of the Roads Subsidy. He. says Mr drew “ did not even speak upon the matter,”, and that a knowledge of the “proceedings ” will show this. Where Mr Fish gets his information, I do not understand, but this I know, that it is not from the “proceedings ” nor from any “Bine’Books,” and that bad Mr Ffsh been sp well acquainted with the “ Blue Books ” as he professes to be; ho would have known this fact, that at the very beginning of the Session to which he refers; Mr Macandrew was the first to move in the matter. On the 12th November, 1866, he tabled a motion to the effect that such a "" KQ ;dv was requisite, and moved that an address be presented to his Honor requesting him to place a sum upou the estimates for

this purpose, and in pursuance of this motion we find Mr Julius Vogel, on the sth December, 1866, saying that such a sura could bo placed upon the proposed estimates. And despite Mr Fish’s glaring ignorance of all this we Efiud him authoritatively referring the public to the “Blue Books” of the Province. Clearly Mr Fish knows more about “gas” than about provincial or colonial politics. Isay, Sir, that it is a perfect disgrace that a public man like MiFish should be so destitute of accurate knowledge of indisputable facts ; but wh it is still more aggravating, is the fact that he, knowing so little, presumes to condemn, and that most untruthfully, one who is immeasurably his superior in every respect. These are the only two facts Mr hish bungs forward, nd I leave your readers to judge of Mr Fish’s veracity. L am, &c., Tiujtu.