MR BARNES’S MEETING.

Evening Star, Issue 3095, 20 January 1873, Page 2

MR BARNES’S MEETING.

To the Editor. SIR, —I recollect reading in ancient history that “ten righteous men were wanted to save the city but it would seem, in this more enlightened age, that one would do, and that that one was found in the person of Councillor Barnes. No doubt Mr Barnes s railing against the Mayor was a source of delight to those who have been always bitterly opposed to his Worship, either from jealousy or some other remote cause. It is quite evident, from Mr Barnes's statement of his grievances, that be should have b en Mayor and received the Governor, and not Mr H. S. Fish. I sympathi e with Councillor Parties: no doubt be ought to have been Mayor. He ought to have received the Governor, and everything then would have been right, eve y one would have been satisfied, the carriage in which he sat would have had no unruly horses, the visitation of the wicked could not have come over him or his horses, and everything would have gone on with harmony. This seems to be the whole pith of Mr Barnes’s harangue, and I feel assured, citizens of Dunedin, you regret your wanttd courtesy in not making Council or Barnes a Mayor.—l am, &c., Ratepayer.