SOUTH WARD ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4315, 26 December 1876, Page 3

SOUTH WARD ELECTION.

To the Editor. SIR, —The arrogant assumption of Mr Fish, that having resigned his seat in the City Council to secure his election to a seat in the Harbor Board should insure him dual honors, is of a piece with many other great and petty impertinencies of which he has from time to time been the perpetrator. I agree with Mr Couzens—but with no intention of voting for him—that a change of diet is desirable: fish is understood to have great brain-producing power, but is apt to become nauseous. Mr Fish appears to base lis claims on the ratepayers of South Ward on the fact, or fiction, that someone is interested in taking the crown off Stafford street at its intersection with Maitland street. Perhaps Mr Fish would like this to be done, ! ut thinks it impolitic to say so; otherwise some decision might have been come to bf the City Council as to further §rocedure with the "improvements" in tafford street, which were commenced some wo months since, and the operations under that contract suspended for several weeks—for which I may reasonably conclude the contractor will require compensation—while Mr Fish is deciding whether he will accept the position of a nominee to the Harbor Board by the City Council, keep his seat therein, or accept the first and again Beek the suffrages of the too-confiding ratepayers of South Ward, who may possibly have looked upon the so-called Stafford street improvements in the same light as I do, but who, I hope, in the interests of the City generally, wiU so record their votes as to clearly denote their objection to anything too decidedly piscatorial,—l am, &c, Ratepayer. Dunedin, December 26.