BOROUGH MANAGEMENT.

Kumara Times, Issue 2330, 15 February 1884, Page 2

BOROUGH MANAGEMENT.

[to the editor.] Sir —ln reading the correspondence in the Kumara Times re the Borough Council and its management, it seems that councillors are not wanting in the knowledge of how to abuse each other, for they use the muck-rake and the blacking-brush very freely. .It is only one year since we had audits and special audits, with prosecutions; and now it appears that another special audit is really wanted. “Jupiter” in particular seems to be a brilliant star, with his revolving satellites around him—the number I cannot find yet; but I suppose he has taken care to have the true number to light his path in the far distant heavens, from whence he shines on Kumara with such brilliance. It is to be hoped that he wont be like our ancient Plutarch—explode and become wandering meteors or stars of less brilliance. It does seem that this Tammany King has acted fair with one another in dividing the small fishes that are caught in the net of the Kumara Borough Council; and why such a row simply because the others are not in it ? I, in my simplicity, often wondered why such resistance to merge the borough with the county; but now it is plain to all why. Sir, not not one of those that get pickings from the pockets of the ratepayers of Kumara would ever enter the sacred precincts of the County Council Chambers, so the small sweet fishes would never be tasted. You must choose your Council, &nd then why wonder if such men will help themselves and help one another ? It is the legislators that are to blame for the evil doing in Kumara in creating little pocket boroughs that are sure to fall into rottenness, more especially on a goldfield, where those that form the town are but camp-fol-lowers that have all to gain and nothing to lose. And these are the sort of men that will push to the front, for they are all clever to a man, and Kumara is no exception to the general rule. But as the axe is laid to the tree it is to be hoped the borough will be purged of the plague that is in it. Yours, Observer. February 15, 1884.