THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 981, 24 September 1881, Page 3

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —In case any lingering notions of the use or continuation of the Legislative Council as it is at present constituted, still remain in the minds of any intelligent persons, let such peruse the speeches delivered by Dr. Wallis, and Sir Georg# Grey, on that subject, in their place, on the 3rd and 4th of August; and

they will be struck with amazement, that, in any civilised country such a glaring imposition should for one day be tolerated —for it is truly neither less nor more than a nursery of political corruption; for who will have the hardyhood to gainsay the truthful, yet scathing exposure, thundered on the devoted heads of the members of that foisted conclave, especially as the cap so well fits the heads of Messrs. Hall and Whitaker ? Now after such exposure by those and and other faithful representatives, the people have only to act their part, and those self appointed clubs—wrongfully termed institutions —shall soon be purged of their present encumbrances, and if longer tolerated will be made available for public use and not for the hitherto ’sole purpose of creating places, salaries, and pensions, for servile political strappers. Let |the people compare the extravagant salaries and pensions, thrust into the pockets of those political petty-foggers, with the fearful amount of taxes screwed out of the hard earnings of every industrious man in this benighted country. Let them also mark the words of the present Premier, that “ those salaries and pensions are a sacred contract.” Such words are only an insult to every intelligent mind, and only (prompted by the height of audacity,—l am &c. Earnest.