The Globe. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1874.

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

The Globe. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1874.

The City Council held their usual weekly meeting last night, and, as usual, a great quantity of the report, which appears in the morning papers, consists of the observations of certain members of the Council on the strictures on their proceedings which have appeared during the week. The Mayor said that “ he felt bound to “ make reference to an article which “ had appeared in one of the papers “ during the week. He would soon “ be done with picking out these, but “ considered it right to carry out this “ practice to the end.” We sincerely trust that his successor will think differently. The Council are supposed to meet for the transaction of the necessary municipal business, and not for the purpose of airing their grievances with this or that paper. Councillorlcb, it need hardly be said, followed on the same side as the Mayor and said that “writers on drainage “sometimes wrote without a full “ knowledge of their subject.” Perhaps this is the case, but at the same time we fancy that Councillor Ick has hardly attained a full knowledge of the sub-

ject, and is not the most qualified man in Christchurch to refer a question ol drainage to. At all events we are not aware that he has shown any remarkible ability in his suggestions or •peeches on this, to the inhabitants of Christchurch, most important point. Councillor Hobbs, the forthcoming Mayor of the City, “ felt pleased with the criticisms of tht press ” which is good news to those who will during the ensuing civic year, have to report, and criticise on his conduct in the position to which he has been elected. Councillor Parr too seemed to think that there was some good in the press, and proposed that if any hard things had been said by the various papers that the Council “should return good for evil,” which means, we suppose, that they should not be so prejudiced as to decline to take any particular course of action because it had been recommended by one other of the Christchurch Journals. It was reserved for Councillor Tones, however, to make the most cruel attack on the Mayor, as he stated that in a certain proposition “he could only imagine his “ Worship had been at the elbow ot the writer of the article in the “ JPi 'ess.” This insinuation was most unkind of Cr Jones, and we wonder that the Mayor did not indignantly repudiate the idea. Perhaps, however, his feelings were too much for him, and he could only silently wonder wTiat he had done throughout his Mayoral career to justify Cr Jones in making such a statement and thinking it possible. We are glad to see from the City Surveyor’s report that there is some chance of the necessary repairs to the Colombo street bridge being commenced shortly, and it is to be hoped that the Council will receive due attention from the different journals in the town, when such delays as have occurred in the instance of this bridge take place.