The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1880.

Kumara Times, Issue 1065, 28 February 1880, Page 2

The Kumara Times. Published Every Evening. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1880.

A correspondent under the very unappropriate nora de plume of “Vok Populi ” has favored our contemporary the Grey River Argus with an opinion that the people of this district are awaiting with extended arms to be received into the bottom of the Grey Valley. “I do not hesitate,” writes this anonymous correspondent, to assert that the only course open to us is to seV'er a portion of the County of Westlahd find amalgamate with the County of Grey." That is the opinion of “ Vox Populi,” and as such he has a perfect right to express it, but he attempts tb corroborate his otfti assertion by adding “ the people here are quite ready for some such change as I have brought under your notice.” “Vox Populij” in his effusions to our Greymouth contemporary has pointed out three distinct courses by which the people of this district may free themselves from Hokitika tyranny, having also taken especial trouble to clearly elucidate the fact that two out of his three propositions are untenable, thereby prominently bringing under notice his favorite and last resource —the absolution of this district into the Grey County. The context, however, of this remarkable proposition is only oil a par with its absurdity « that the people to the north of the Tereniakau may object to the proposition.” Fancy such

a coutingeucy arising as our nbrt!hefn friends refusing to become tbe landlords of a nice little property with a rent roll of about £BOOO per annum. Had this self-styled champion of the peoples opinions attended the late meeting re county affairs at Diliman’s Town he would probably have been enlightened as to the feeling of the residents of this district in seeking to obtain redress from their grievances by an appeal to our northern neighbors, as the interruptions and repugnance with which the proposition was received on that occasion would have clearly demonstrated even to one so “ wise in his own conceit” as “ Vox Populi.” Carefully, dissecting the letters of this local correspondent of the Grey River Argus, we can but arrive at the conclusion that the suggestions made therein are not actuated by any feeling of sympathy with this district or interest in the wellfare of its inhabitants, but are the outcrop of evident spleen towards the municipial authorities of this town, which some dissatisfied ratepayer seeks to give publicity to under the cloak of public opinion re county matters. That good and substantial grounds of complaint exists against the Westland County Council for the treatment this district has received at its hands, we do not for one moment dispute; but, at the same titob, we are greatly mistaken in the community generally if they are so devoid ol interest in their own affairs as to re<Juit'6 the cudgels to be wielded on their behalf by an anonymous correspondent who but blazes forth his own private opinions Us “ The Voice of the People. ”