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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5167, 13 October 1877, Page 2

The disagreement between the Town Clerk and the Mayor reaehed a climax at the meeting of the City Council on Thursday evening, when the latter emphatically denied that he ever tampered with the burgess roll, and further asserted that Mr. Hester's statement about his having done so was a pure fabrication, concocted by the Town Clerk and other city officials to damage the Mayor. The whole question now wears a very ugly aspect. Either the Mayor or the Town Clerk is, to say the least of it, very much to blame, and the matter cannot be allowed to rest where it is. Whether Mr. Hutchison's and Mr. Mills' names are properly on the burgess roll or not, is a question to be decided by the Law Courts, and on that point we have no desire to give an opinion. But it concerns tho citizens of Wellington that such charges as have been bandied about between Mr. Hutchison and Mr. Hester for tho past few weeks sbould be inquired into, and the blame, if possible, put on the right shoulders. It is a matter in which the parties should labor under no mistake. Look at it in any way, and it presents two naked sides—either that the Mayor has most unjustifiably tampered with the burgess roll, or that Mr. Hester and others not only falsified the burgess roll, but put their hsads together with the intent of injuring the_ gentleman who occupies the honorable position of Mayor of this city. In the interest of the citizens we have put the matter plainly.