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i-IRgo&ntly €wi> teaidenta of the little tPWki I ' of Gisborne stood .their, eandi- 1 dature for the Mayoralty. As two Mayors were not required, only one as [ e_ matter of -co _fse,^ was elected. Thp ! person -jvhb was defeated lodged a pro- 1 test, on the ground that.hisriva] was 1 not &' burgess, not having been a half- ! yearly tenant. " Snyder ; is appealed j to in (he matter, and settles the dispute i in, a very logical manner. ;He refers to ! ebe^AcE, aod finds tbere that in the case of a citken residing in a tehe-B-e_li»ho is hot a half-yearly tenant, j the owner of the house sh_ll j b. deemejl j to be the occupier. ' Thia "Snyder'' j points out aa being ridiculous,. as the I -s?nerj__ig_s be "in Grebarland's icy | mou_£_icg, or Afric's Ppral strand," I and can't, therefore, be the occupier, j J-.ut leavipg that out of the question, | the Act aaya," eyery eitizenV' "Sny-' j der looks to the various lexicographi- ! cajl: wprks, and finds the definition of citizen to be a denizen of a city. Next he looks for "the precise meaning of "oity," which he discovers means ''aCBft_e_ra. towi6." Then be looks for ".btt^g-ss," add this he learns means **a oiti?en.? Hia argument, the_, is somethiag after this fashion : If a city' means a cathedral town, then ..to be a citiaen one must be a resident in suoh a town, and as Gisborne has nothing neater i resembling a cathedral than a pie-*hop in the perspective, it .could apt resemble a city,, and cousequently » could not have bnrgeases'; and therefore the objector, htmself^oot being a biif. geaa, baa no right to 6bjepr. T^is is ond way of getUng over a diMoulty. ;i_Sp book more true to Hfe-^that 1_ Bervan-v-girl life^(says ihe .Wellington Argus) waa oyer .wrilten v than a book called ''/The Greatest Plagues of t-iije/' The pecularitiea of servant girlism in many phrases are accurately delineated, and ahow what employers of this kind of labor bave at time- io put up witb. feut a great many mote peculiarities might be pointed out wi^h i regard '60 colonial ser vatit girlis^a jhan are referred to in the "Greatest leagues ofr ; L\fe." At, times,, we have bad occasion to maattOQ fre_ks both _traps'>- ' I and ludicrous. The predominabt fe«- ' tures of Wellington 'plagues' are 1 independence, ''slummockiness," impudence, and laziness. It-; may not be unimereatiog io give an instance where the first and third of theie characteristic^ '^ere combine^. A day or two-

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