A CABMAN ON LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 663, 10 December 1851, Page 4

A CABMAN ON LOCAL SELF-GO-VERNMENT.

TO MR. PUNCH. “Sir,—Avin lately ’card a ketnr f Mr. Tool man Smith on the subjec of ku self-guvnment and sentrylisation, imbowl I me call your tention to the movements of Mr. Main, Ead'coZ? uner of Police, wicb he may be sed tok’“' puttin down of the lokal self-guvnment of poor Cabbies by mane force. “Sir, Mr. Toolman Smith asalsorotea book on the subjeck of his lectur, wich I avent a (lout you can get in the liberies - lays it bout that lokal self-guvnment is’tbe management of things by the gratest num. her of peple as nows most about it; and is the gratest interest in it and that sentrylisation is the mauidgement of a thing bv the leaste number of peple as nows leaste aboute it, and as tbe leaste interest in it! wich I appele to you if this ere ain’t jist the case with the new Cab regylations. ?-l arx you wether us Cabbies wasn’t a case of lokal self guvnment, wich I’m sure there was a grate many on us, as did pretty much wot we liked in regarffWfairs; and bevry stand ad its own rools, aui there was the waterman as was mostly an old cabby as we looked hup to in regard of dispewtsaad such like, and nowed wot was wot: but siffl he adn’t no more authority nor we liked to let im ave ; not like a beak or a bloo, cr such like harbitary coves, and we guvnd ourselves, and looked out for number von; and, unless we was pulled bup now*and then, it was houtanhout self-guvn-ment altogether, pertickly as regards fairs wich But now look ere at thia ere sentrylisin guvnment ov owrn, wich (here’s to be a pliceman at bevry stand, and tbe Esi uommishnur isself, that’s Mayne, a bemoanen of isself to print" a list of fairs wich it’s nown to contane herrors ; but in course fairs wont lissen to us; and now all on us is X] ected alius to charge the same munneyfor the same distanse, wicb ow is a man to pay is way, and not a chance left us with a lasby party, or a greenun, and not to speke of formers, v/icb, they mav snv wnt thev like, but I’m blest if don’t think them formers is up t» hevery think, and fites as hard about a hodd sixpence as the Temple and Westminster fairs, wich it’s well nown is no use, bein lawyers, and cown upon a poor feller as dead as nales, unles in an urry. | “Now, Sir, I arx you and Mr- Tool® lo Smith to speke hup for tbe Cabbies, that gent as made hout to everybody’s sati*' faeshun, as ow this ere country aseilssilokal self-guvnment till the wigMS® e * D » 4U now sentrylisation is a goin to be our tevtio, wich it’s safe to be with us poore Cabbie*- “ And I say that the Cabbies as a rite to self-guvment, acos there’s a grate many us, and we nows more about fairs and dis* tances, and such like, than Mr. Maine any day, and has a stronger interest in the same, wich sentrylisation can’t ave, tho they P u two Bobbies to stand gentry over a stand in* n 5 Vljn. nmuinnrfl nr p“CS6Ot yourr to command. ' r ' “James TiltW “ his X mark,