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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 711, 20 July 1878, Page 2

Tirr. concluding portion of "Nemo's totter may create a false imprc-si r.. Jliseems to have forgotten, in the in.-afc of his zeal. tii.it Mr. S-r»:»'.vi:i> is aUoamemhc;nf the ii.irhor llo.ml by virtue of his orrice as M.iv»r. Suppo-ing that iir. Su.mitki: wen- eh-ctol as Mayor in Mr. Sn:u.u:i>"s j stead, wii.it would be the position of matters': ! j He would be >-v- oiiirio a member of the H-r- | hor Board, ami no more involv. d in con.-e- j | ipienee t>" holding tiie two ofiicca than i-i the | present Mayor. We fail to see that there j can he any objection to the Chairman of the j Harbor Board holding a number of oi'ri.res, j provided lie lias the capacity to do so. Oar present Mayor is Chairman of the Oamani Schools Committee. President of the Karly Closing Association, member of the Hospital Committee, member of the Benevolent In>ti- j tutio.i, member of the North Otago Agricul- j tnral and Pastoral Association, member of the North Otago Horticultural Society. Vice- ! President of the Acclimatisation Soei. tv. member of the Coursing Club, mc-iiih.-r of the Jockey Club. &c, as -well as being ex ojia'o, Vice-Chairman of the Harbor Jlwrd, and we have never heard it said that Mr. Stevakd has allowed the interests of the=e bodies—even of the Harbor Board—to interfere with his duties as Mayor. There may be something in the remark of our cor- \ respondeut that "one hlue ribbon ought to be glory enongh for any man;" but what would he think of a man whose ordinary garments could scarcely be seen on account of the multitude of blue ribbons. AVe have net such.