CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SiK, —The Council has met, and, in the absence of two of the members for Napier Town, are in most unseemly haste hurrying over the business of the session. You have very properly remraked that the “ opposition is in good hands, that tcill not suffer measures to pass without investigationand it may he quite true that if “ these members were presentthe opposition would still be too weak to effect any material modification in the proceedings or acts of the Council ,” but I rather think otherwise, or why this evident hurry to transact the Council business in their absence I It is likely if the question of the representation had been adjourned until the two absent members had returned, Napier would have had the benefit of an additional member to return ; as for sheer shame, Mr Kennedy could not have opposed it. At all events, it would be better, in evert respect, to devote more time to the consideration of public matters; and would have been only right to have adjourned the Council until the Napier members could have attended,—l am, Sfc., Fair Plat Napier, September 30, 18(53.