HOSPITAL SUBSIDY, &c.

Kumara Times, Issue 1076, 12 March 1880, Page 3

HOSPITAL SUBSIDY, &c.

[to the editor.] Sib—As silence is genet ally taken for assent, it may be inferred from Mr Seddon heading It is reply, “ Hospital snbaidv, and then giving up the subject, that he fully agreed with what I wrote concerning it; and it is now sincerely to be hoped thaT he will use his influence in getting this longstanding grievance rectified. Richard

John’s insinuation aliont 1113' leaving the Hospital Committee is h.-mlly worth eontiadiction, as it is well known that, at some expense and consideinble personal inconvenience, f stuck to that institution through uincll adversity and hut little, prosperity, for a .period of eighteen months, during which time a certain professed pliihmtrophist had ndt contributed his mite towards its maintenence. As Mr Seddon places Hie amongst his supporters, I may inform him that, before supporting him in the present election, I won Id require him to enter into an agreement to the effect that lie would use gentlemanly behaviour and civil language at meetings of County Council ] that he, would not make faces at the County Chairman* that he would never, without, just provocation, invite his brother councillors to a game of fisticuff’s on the Hokitika back beach | and, above all, that lie woiild not resign his trust in ft tit of bad temper, without consulting his constituents. The conditions, Mr Editor, are somewhat unusual, but absolutely necessary to save the funds of an already insolvent county from being squandered on unnecessary elections. The lion. Dick lays great stress on the gratitude he owes me for being the late chairman of his Dillman’s Town Election Committee; hilt 1 hope my magnanimous friend will make himself easy’ on this score, as he has already amply paid me, in slander and abuse, for all past services. Richard John’s reply contained regards enough to supply the whole world and his wife, myself included, so that I finished its perusal by examining “ May peace be the portion of his nobis mind.”—l am, yours &c., R., M'Kenzie. Larrikins, 11th March, 1880.