BUMBLEDOM. HIGH JINKS AT KAIAPOI.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 159, 8 December 1874, Page 2

BUMBLEDOM. HIGH JINKS AT KAIAPOI.

To the Editor of the Globe.

Sib, —As no doubt Councillor Hobbs will adopt Mr Wynn William’s advice and get rid of the velvet dressing gown, &c., will you use your utmost endeavors to get it for the Mayor of Kaiapoi, it only wants that robe and the collar to complete the inflation of our Mayor before the final catastrophe, as described in zEsop’s fables takes place, as our municipal frog cannot swell much more. Oh, sir, did you ever fag, did you ever black boots for another fellow, were you ever a Grimsby fisher lad, Avere you ever a putter in a coal mine, did you ever teach an infant class, or ride on a donkey after eating green gooseberries when you had scarcely worn out your first suit of clothes ? If so, you may have some faint idea what avo meek Kaiapoyians suffer at present from our municipality generally, hut its head in particular; but I think Tuesday night capped CA 7 ery thing. I dare not venture to tell you all that took place in the Council Chamber, but adjectives Avere flying about like brickbats, and the Mayor’s bully Avas there in strong force calling people blank fools, &c., &c. Oh dear, sir, do get us that gown and let us end this farce, and the collar, you can give to Yours, See., OLD DOG DRAY.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sir, —Will you give me space to make known a little grievance which wc on our side of the river suffer .from, in consequence of the action of our Lord Mayor. Last year a sum of money was voted by the Provincial Council for protective works at Kaiapoi, on condition that it was to be expended by a Board of Conservators ; but Mr Mayor and one or two others of our corporation, have been trying to get the money from our G overnment to expend on just a little bit of the town, on a pet scheme of theirs, which would have the effect of spoiling all the river frontages and narrowing the lied of the river and sending all the water on one side. They propose making a bank only as far as the boundary of the land of one of the members of the Council, leaving the whole of this side of the river and a great portion, of the other out altogether. But sir, 1 want you to know how things are managed by the Municipal Emperor at Kaiapoi. I was in the Council Chamber on Tuesday night, when one of the members brought forward a requisition, signed by nearly every ratepayer on the South side of the river, asking to be put on the same footing as those on the North side, with regard to the expenditure of the money for protective works, lie, however, was put down by the Mayor as out of order. Now, I want to know whose servants these same councillors are, and if we, the ratepayers, want to make known our grievances, how are we to do so except by getting one of our representatives to present a memorial petition or what not, and 1 should think, provided it was respectfully worded, that they are bound to receive it,

But, oh no! Mr Mayor, who seems just to do what he pleases, would not have the requisition at any price, would not let it be received, and it was thrown on one side with contempt, although signed by all the most influential ratepayers. Buy the way in which the business was conducted was extraordinary, as one member of the Council was induced to second the striking of a special rate, on the understanding that it would not affect the expenditure of the money voted by the Provincial Council, and when the Mayor had caught him in this trap, on his remonstrating, was simply told by Mr Mayor that he was a fool. Yours, &c, JUSTICE.