To The Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 112, 13 May 1871, Page 2

To The Editor of the Nelson Evening Mail.

Sir, —Well may Nelson ba. dubbed the ' * sleepy hollow." What^thei" -country [in the world would quietly submit to the ' Ba'nila^'ind'of^ .¥ek£meo¥" _MB# 11-i-ia^i: bier *^p««ito thought that the Counpilj would ever" tiave spent one* single hour of

■AA their val tiiole,, time in talk about dogs, ex^*epHt v liiia_:-be-n to double the tai^ori;; all; useless j ind good-for-nothing ! Jf|ncy|; •dogf^an-Ktb have given a free lif&i-tiiS-.et™, to the very useful and invaluable sheepdog. Did none of our wise men in Council know-that the dog-tax was handed over ■to , -the Central Board, of Education ' after the ne'cces-ary of its collection, &c, had been paid ? We see the Executive Act, and the Dog Nuisance Act, whicy^ave cost the province hundreds oj^ pounds, the one demolished m toto _nd the other tinkered into a different shape, in fact, spoiled; it : is positively . wpi^e . than child's play. There >as'one moh 'fyejp't ripping,, that . was, that the sum of £.000, be. set' apart out of the treasury to. pay salaries with— ' no factious opposition was offered. "to that — no, no, that must pass. Garried on the voices, loud manly voices, earnest voices, and no mistake. Six thousand pounds to pay only a part of the officials employed.;bere, for some are paid by the General Government I believe, yes, £6000, for a population numbering only 20,000 souls, it is really wonderful, but no wonder that we're poor. ' - , ' ' If this, sir,' be " local self-government " I for one am heartily sick and tired of it, : I, recollect perfectly well the time when Major Richmond sat as chief magistrate, : Mr. Brunner as overseer of public works, and Mr. Fagau was chief of police with, two or three men. under hira, and to the best -of my recollection ;we were* as iwell goyerued then as we are now with all the multitude of departments, and clerks, and assistant clerks, whose name is legion. . Would people believe me if I should tell them that the town of Stockport niimberiug about, sixty thousand souls when I lived there, had its mayor or chief magistrate with its aldermen and councilraen to the number of about forty, and all they, had to pay was a town clerk with a salary of three hundred pounds per annum, 'tis a fact, Nelson shuts her eyes and— snores— . I am, &c, N. L. L.