THE MAYORALTY.

Kumara Times, Issue 269, 15 August 1877, Page 2

THE MAYORALTY.

; marvellous ingenuousness dU, played"by a "Ratepayer" in yonr issue of Jifonjlay evening ia really atousing. I heai'd it Irreverabtly stated that it wu Richard "Cos'ir D a Lion" himself who inspired it. I remarked; his unassuming modesty would prevent it. Be this as it may, after this panegyric* lfhoefer deems the would-be mayor not to be imiri»<jalate, must be in a state of' utter depravity. And it would be sheer blasphemy ti> con* aider that he has an atom of impure selfishness in his constitution. Sis bold standing out for compensation at the Road Board for sjrangers,,. must have arisen from his sense of immutable justice and exquisite honor. His attempt to degrade the privilege of his office by constituting himself a Star Chamber Inquisitor on Government officials, must be looked npon as an act of pure disinterestedness for the public good, and not the gratification of a private spleen. To throw aside sarcasm, and to speak plain Saxon, I have sufficient faith in the honor and sound sense of. the ratepayers of Kumara, never to tolerate such a man as their mayor.

One word with regard to his opponent refusing to sign the'petition for the borough, everybody that knows; Mr Dungan, knows him to be a practical man, who does not exhaust his strength in disputing the "inexorable logic of a fact," and therefore as Kumara is a borough, he does not hesitate to accept it, and complies with the request, of his fellow townsmen to become a candidate, -for the office of mayor—an office in which his sterling honesty and be beneficially exercised for the inhabitants of this newly-created borongh. -•■'; Cms Kcmaiue Svv.