" Give me leave to speak my mind,' As You Like It.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1929, 3 July 1878, Page 2

" Give me leave to speak my mind,' As You Like It.

M asks if I was invited to join the Council in its trip to the intako last week. "No," I replied, "I had not that honor." M : " Why, I thought you had first suggested tho public inauguration of tlio interesting trial " Yes, I was so, and I asked for an invite, but was told that it could not be ; it would excite jealousy in tho minds of othors; and that it was particularly desirable at tho present crisis not to make enomies, and therefore the invitations had been limited to a very few. ' What," said I ; "to tho richest only?" " Oh, no. It is true all the Bankers have boon nsked to be present, as, from thenknowledge of banking, they would be able to judgo accurately of that done by Mr .Vl'Leod; but othorwise the persons invited are limited to persons ominont for their virtue, and at these it is known you love to laugh, and, lest you should do S( now, you have boon expressly excluded. You may go, of course, but I trust youi knowledge that you are not wanted will induce you to stay away." I was content, and did so. But I have a friend that should have been. "For," thus he argued tho point with me, " I also, in deference to the wishes of tho Corporation, prepared a plan for tho water supply. I expended LOO in labrtr and in getting the 'water analysed. I submitted a design which would have supplied 40,000 people with 40 gallons oaoh per day with water of ex-