The Mayor.

Manawatu Herald, 17 June 1902, Page 2

The Mayor.

The Borough Council on Friday night made an attempt to secure a Mayor for the town, but the wonderful diffidence displayed, led to every Councillor being proposed for the office without one accepting that position. As a rule when a somewhat similar difficulty has arisen it has generally been the duty of the senior Councillor to take up the duties neglected by the elected head, and the Councillors would, we believe, had desired that Councillor Hennessy had accepted the position. We can understand this gentleman shirking the responsibility as he is well aware of the calls such duty makas upon his time, at all hours, but thie would not have deterred him had not domestic reasons weighed so considerably with him. All the other Councillors stood equally comoetent for the position and their sense of public duty have made them willing victims to the post of duty. As oar report stated the meeting was adjourned to the 7fh July. The Borough is placed in a peculiar position in not having a Mayor to take up. the duties on Coronation Day, and the hearts of the faithful burgesses are stirred at this lamentable position. The Council were ordered by Act to elect a Mayor at the meeting convened by the Town Clerk, and it becomes a question whether the postponement to do so is in accordance with law, for if legal to postpone for 23. days, it might happen that the Council could keep on postponing to the end of the term —eleven months hence! It naturally is possible that before those months have elapsed something might be done, but it does not alter the fact that monthly adjournments are possible if the adjournment

already made is legal. The Act further makes no provision to get out of the difficulty and what has occurred makes the objection we expressed to the inconsistences of our legislators more emphatic and better illustrated. Owing to the probable disturbance of stock by shooting the Manager of the Motoa Estate notifies that all trespassers will be prosecuted. The Railway Department notifies that dining the floods traffic on the F'.'-don branch is suspended until further notice, Mr and Mrs Shaw return thanks for many kindnesses shWS * The Volunteer ball is postponed until further notice. Mr J. J, Buckrell having secured larger premises in Wanganui, has decided to confine his attention to that town only, and will close the Foxton branch on Saturday 28th June. No goods are to be returned to Wanganui and a monster clearance sale is now in full swing. Every,line must he sold regardless of Sttsß and this is a splendid opportunity to purchase cholge new new goods at sale price. The tickets for Mrs Cook’s .corn plimentary dance are n6w out and selling sufficient to point to a most successful, event; The tifikels are now , oh sale by the ladies committee and at all the storekeepers. . Worse than death. The notorious Italian bandit Musolinot, who eluded pursuit tor years till October last, when he was arrested on charges of murder, has been found guilty oil all counts, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, with solitary confinement for eight years. It is alleged that Musolinot was guilty of some twenty murders.

Some of the lately returned troopers questioned as lo.tbe lihelihopd,,pf the Boets settling down peaheinlly now that the war was over, declare that the Boers generally would hail the declaration of peace with delight. All their conversation with captives and snrrehderers went to show that the Boers had had " quite enongh of it-.’’ They all want to get back to peaceful life onCe moire, and, So fab as the New Zealanders could see or hear, felt no bitterness towards the British.

More trouble looming in the distance. The French fishery on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland is a complete failure. A hundred vessels are at the island ot St. Pierre, off Newfoundland helpless, bait being unobtainable owing to Newfoundland’s stringent laws.

Giving evidence before the Licensing Committee as to the increase of drunkenness in Auckland, Sergeant Hen drey stated that in 1898 the number of arrests in Auckland police district was 611. Last year it was 1272. In Auckland licensing district the arrests were 664 in 1898, as against 142 last year. The New Zealand Ensign Act, 1901 has received the Royal assent. The Act establishes as the New Zealand ensign the blue ensign of the . Royal Navy Reserve, having oti the fly the Southern Cross as represented by four . fiv --pointed red stars with white borders. Any one who defaces the ensign by placing any sign, representation, or letter there .m is liable to a penally not exceeding £s. The Pekin correspondence of “ The Times ” states that in order to meet the Russian view, China, with Great Britain’s consent, promises that China herself will build any railway between Pekin and the. Great Wall, without the assistance of foreign capital, and promises not to mortgage the railway as security to any foreign Power. Lord Kitchener inspected and thanked the National Burgher Scouts, and promised that they should return to their farms as soon as possible. The Scouts enthusiastically cheered Lords Kitchener and Milner, and for peace. The Scouts and surrenderors are on amicable terms. Surrenderors at Middelburg went to the refugees’ camp and arranged an impromptu ball with Scouts and refugees. Six foreigners, says last Thursday’s Advocate, some of the men who were connected with the charge of insubordination on board the AngloCanadian at Wellington and . discharged, passed through Sanson on Wednesday on their way north,. These men are evidently in a bad way and 1 pretty new to the road, as they left Foxton on Tuesday afternoon and were found by a passer-by sheltering for the night under a hedge near Rosina, with no food. He.acted the part of the “ Good Samaritan ” and gave them food and shelter. A " tarpaulin muster ” at Sanson resulted in their being supplied with food and some money to carry them on their journey north. How much alike are all meetings of small bodies. The Post reports that the motion of Mr Collins excluding the press from meetings of the Trades and Labour Council was thrown out last evening by nine votes to seven. Various comments of delegates on the iniquities of “ the capitalist press ” may lie taken as read. The burden of the complaint of Mr Collins and his supporters was that the press paragraphs held delegates up to ridicule. Eventually the wiser argument prevailed—namely, that publicity is a benefit, that to shun it would be a surrender, and that the best > way to prevent the publication of ridiculous things is not to utter them.

Mr Charles Low, of Riwaka, who has been on tour during the past month with the object of_ introducing raspberry pulp put up in the local syndicate last season, has returned to Motucka. Mr Lowe informs the Star that he has visited the principal centres of population in North Island including Wellington, New Plymouth, Napier, Gisborne, and Auckland, and in every locality has, besides introducing the article, converted the pulp into jam in the presence of leading bakers confectioners, and grocers, and in all cases got substantial orders. Taken altogether, the visit has been very encouraging, and the syndicate s output will soon be quitted.—-Post.

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