The Manawatu Standard, (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. TUESDAY, JUNES,1883. WATCHFUL BURGESSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 152, 5 June 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard, (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la Verite. TUESDAY, JUNES, IBB3. WATCHFUL BURGESSES.

In Wellington, when any aotionof the Municipal Council, present or prospective^ does not meet with~theapprovaT"of the, ratepayers, the latter do not mince theh words wb'en expressing their opinion on the ;c6^dact: of their Ciiy ; Fathers. There has lately been a proposal to borrow a Bum of mon>y! to purchase a portion of a subnrb called Melrose, as a sits .for -a; > cemetery. • 'A. publio meeting was convened, by, certain of the ratepayers !toj con|idit|the pror posal, when the following resolutions' were proposed and carried unanimously,* at amendment that the whole affair oe left to the Mayor and City Council being rejected ; " Ist. That Melrose is neither a fit or proper place for a public Cemetery. 2nd. / Thai this; meeting is of opinion that a barefaced injustice is attempted by certain parties,, .and ,we pjedge^ ourselves to upset, the whole thing ;. and JurtherVto employ detectives to hunt up the conspirators. 3rd. That it is neither right nor proptei 1 that the human family should lay side by-sidsr with the DigUt-soil" deposit: 4th I . 'That we farther .wish. .to. protest and censure the City Coiincil for their abti^ttin this mater. ff&i 1 That the City Council sboW've'ry fihahcing' J a!)ility m pro" posing to pay principal and interest; m ten years,' which means £800. a year from the rates, now too little for neces?, sary works. 6th. r lfhat the proposers qi this dirty transaction ip |he idjityiidpuncil be compelled' to pay all expenses for advertising, and then — placo "theif resignations m the han^s of the>Town ; ! Clerk. 7th. That we see Dr -JDiviß's little scheme of re-selling part of Melrose, as a blind to get the ratepayers to sanction the job." It is evident that public opinion m Wellington is strongly adveseto any action of the Municipa" body that can be rightly v *cßftras6erized ap jobbery or log-rollin|:.^_When, the ratepayers are thuß vigilant andaliTe to : their own interests, their representatives : m the Municipal Council will eventually have to recognize their responsibility to public. opinion, and will, apt accordingly.