An Amiable Correspondent.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 11, 5 July 1883, Page 3

An Amiable Correspondent.

f •■ - •; -- : rf — ■ » , " — It has been suggested to us by a cor* respondent that : as the members of the Borough Council show a surprising amount of collective ignorance of the bye-law« of the Borough, that the Mayor or the Town Clerk be compelled to read them over to the Council assembled at least once in each calendar month for their instruction and to make them familiar with the wise provisions made for the good government of the Borough, and that the Mayor should examine the Councillors from time to time in order that they might prove their efficiency, and that the Town Chirk should examine the Mayor in his turn. The plan appears to possess,- at least, the charm of novelty, but we doubt very much whether it could be carried out at the present time. There is always, an objection in the minds of - individuals to sudden and violent reforms Referring to another part of our valued correspondent's witty (but spiteful) commuaication, we must express our entire dissent from his views on the subject of the " Blue Hibbon " as connected with the members of any public body. That an abuse may or may not exist at certain meetings we neither know nor desire to be informed, as that sort of thing is - generally immediately subject to the control of the Chairman, and unless some grievous scandal is likely to be created, we will- say nothing nor allow our columns to be used for such a purpose, . We would ask -"Amicuß" to learn that it is possible to be witty withoutbeing malicious, and to give good counsel without impertinence. We are L glad he admits that our public men are, I without exception, honest in their desire for the public welfare of their fellow citizens. If " Amicus " thinks our strictures harsh on him we can only remind him . that we I'ave doled out but an infinitesimal portion for him of what he offered :in a liberal (if not illiberal) dose for others.. ■