The Mayor of Sydney in Trouble

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 69, 11 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Mayor of Sydney in Trouble

Alderman J. Young, the mayor of Sydney who so royally entertained the municipal visitors from the other colonies recently, has been the recipient of some very hard knocks from his brother aldermaa. Accounts amounting to £1079 have b.een strougly objected to, as they comprise such items as £250 for the illumination of the town hall on the occasion of the jubilee buuquet, £286 for extra cutlery, £107 for glassware, £150 for building pantries and cellars, £62 for flags and deoorations, and £70 for 600 oopies of a book writtten by the town clerk entitled Principal Events in the Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, a copy of which was handsomely bound and sent home to her Majesty, bearing the autograph' of Alderman John Toung. Alderman Play fair, the proceeding Mayor of Sydney, was Alderman Young's harshest oritic, but he was obliged to admit that he had set the example by spending £30 on glassware and plate. He contended, however, that the expenditure was justified, as previous to his reign civic entertainments had taken the form of drinking whiskey out of a black bottle. Alderman J. Young was next accused of engaging a cook at &\ a week, while he had taken Is a day off a man working in the sewers, and with bidding for a knighthood or some other distinction by making a " big splash," but having done so a year too soon. The climax, however, was reached when the item "cushion for the mayor's chair" was noticed and there seems

OTPry probability that during the remainder of Alderman Young's tenancy of the chair he trill not fiad his position any more the comfortable on account of being superimposed upon that cushion. — Atticus.