The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 68, 26 November 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892.

In another column we publish a requisition from a large number of ratepayers to Mr W. Gr. Haybittle, the retiring Mayor of Feilding, asking him to allow himself to be nominated for the seat in the Council made vacant by the election of Mr Goodbehere to the position of Mayor. We are pleased to see that Mr Haybittle has responded in the affirmative to the requisition, and again placed his valuable services at the disposal of his fellow burgesses. "Whether as Councillor or Mayor, Mr Haybittle has invariably done his utmost to further and conserve the best interests of the Borough, and his performance of the several duties appertaining to these onerous positions, has been a pleasure to him, yet ifc must be very gratifying to have such a spontaneous expression of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow burgesses, and the value they place on. his services in the Council.

The editor of the Advocate has not yet regained his equanimity of temper, for in an article published yesterday he again makes a venomous attack on this journal, and uses the Pecksniff- Stiggins-like phrase of " wobble and shilly-shally, and seek the support of a rail." With an inconsequence characteristic of the writer, he flies from gambling to the Fohangina Road Board, and in referring to a letter which appeared in our columns commenting on the " fearful and wonderful actions " of that remarkable body says, "That might or might not have been an office letter. " We have pride in informing our contemporary that since the Feilding Stab was first published, an " office letter " has never appeared in our columns, and we have very grave doubts indeed whether the record of our contemporary is so pure in that respect. In concluding his article the Advocate writer says, " There is not many other papers in the world mean enough to adopt the same tactics." This is as unsrainmatical as it is impertinent.