The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 232, 10 September 1884, Page 2

The Telephone. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE POVERTY BAY STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.

Mr. Tutchen, we think, deserves some special mark of favor from the local press for his kindness last night in introducing the subject of newspapers into his exceedingly witty remarks when thanking his fellow-councillors for past consideration. Having “unbussumed ’isself," Mr. Tutchen no doubt went home thoroughly satisfied that he had not only vindicated his much-aspersed-by-the-Press character, and also made his calling (on the ratepayers) and election sure. We hope he has —for his own sake. Some allowance is always made for the terms used in a last dying speech and confession, and should the ratepayers think fit to again elect Mr. Tutchen, we shall accord him the same treatment that we give any other gentleman. That is to say, we shall retain the right to hold our own opinion, and offer Mr. Tutchen every opportunity to express his. From the annexed report of last night’s proceedings it will be seen that Mr. Tutchen puts us down as rogues and vagabonds. We respond by stating most emphatically that Mr. Tutchen is a gentleman, in which every one who knows Mr. Tutchen will bear us out. We hope also to have a friendly glass with Air. Tutchen to-morrow evening, and trust he will enjoy the situation as well as we do. After the business of the Borough Council was finished last night, Mr. Tutchen rose with a sort of self-satisfied and half-complacent smile illuminating his countenance, and said he wished to thank all the members of the Council for the consideration they had shown him. He thought he was a much better man than he appeared to be according to the newspapers, but now he had come to the conclusion that such was not the case, and that he was no longer fit to hold a seat in the Council, although he had worked hard for the ratepayers. He had been in the district eleven years that month, and had worked conscientiously for the best interests of the people. He had worked on Road Boards, in doing which he had been considerably inconvenienced, and this was his thanks. He did not think there was a Councillor in New Zealand who had studied the interests,

of the place as he had done. He once more returned his thanks. They had always worked well together, notwithstanding he was such an illiterate bad-hearted and-all-the-rest-of-it sort of man—Mr. Joyce said he thought Mr. Tutchen should not hang his fate on the newspapers.—Mr, Tutchen might say he had a better opinion of himself than he had until reading the paper.—That rag of a Herald.— Mr. Lewis said as the ball had been opened he also begged to thank the members of the Council for the generous support he had received from them during the time he occupied a seat in the Council, and for the manner in which they had supported him when he had the chair. All he could now say was that he hoped he would come back again after the election. He did not know whether he was a wrong man in the right place or not, but, at any rate that would be shown on Thursday next. He thought Mr. Tutchen was rather touchy (laughter), as he (the speaker), would not take quite so much notice of what a paper said about him, but with all that he hoped to see Mr. Tutchen back again. There was no doubt a great deal of truth in what Mr. Tutchen said. He had worked ver} - hard and done more than most of them because he had been longer in the place, but he (the speaker I, would not take the matter so much to heart. However, he simply rose to return his thanks to them.—Mr. Tutchen had not the least doubt the papers were paid for what they were doing. Of course the Standard was always the same, it was the same paper under another name. When he came here first the Standard was only the size of a foolscap sheet, yes.—The Chairman (Mr. Smith), on behalf of the Councillors, said he could endorse every word that had been said. Since he had taken his seat in the Council, and he was a member when the Council first started, he never worked with a more harmonious class of men, and whatever the newspapers might say, that fact was a credit to the place ; the disinterested manner in which all the members had worked together so many years was most gratifying. They had never had those bad personal bickerings which were usual elsewhere, and the way they carried out their duties was the talk of many. He was sure if the two previous gentleman came back the Councillors would be very glad to see them, and hq was very sure that whoever might take their places, the Council would be very fortunate if they performed their duties as perfectly as those who would retire had done for the past number of years.—Mr. Tutchen thanked the Chairman for his kind remarks.