MARTON BOROUGH LOANS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9006, 20 November 1907, Page 2

MARTON BOROUGH LOANS.

Slß.—The suburban wiseacre wild is so cxtrcmolv modest that in your last night's edition ho appears under an alias rather than uudcr the uanio that he derived from Ids father and, at his mother's instance, had perfected in his clergyman'ri arms—if indeed ho ever, before his descent upon liiyself had encountered eci pious and reputable a personage—has —(alas for the frailty of human nature)— sadly muddled the little mission on which ho set out. WitJt all tho swagger tli.it is tho general concomitant of him of small par'?? '' Suburban Ratepayer''—(to use oneO again your correspondent's Sunday name)—affects for his special purpose an assumption of ignorance, but unfortunately for himself, tho plumage that he assumes is_ after all his real color. Section 12;> of tlw Municipal Corporations Act, 1000, that ho quotes with some show of gusto at my anticipated discomfiture in bavins it published to tho world how ignorant I was of its existence and with the obvious view of ereatingt an impression that I was unfamiliar with the subject on which I had been speaking and was certainly your correspondent's inferior when it came to matters of law, was sad to relate, repealed over lire yonrti ago along with tho sth sehedttk' mentioned in it, and the Legislature, to provent an" mistake, about the matter at the "hands of superficial expositors of the law (such a« yotiv last night's correspondent), euactftrt the repeal twice over in two separate Acts within a period of -IS hours. Now. then, Mr Suburban Ignorance creep' into your humble shell, hold lowly vonr drooping head and (if you wiil accept advieo that will not cost you tho usual half-mark fee) take not your law from tho man in the street—(as from such a source it is apt to be mouldy and of third' class quality)—but seek it from they approved founts .in such matters even though it cost you the matter of some few shillings .and odd pence to ascertain it thus. One parting bit of advice |let me whisper in your car and I am done. It is this: Spout* your remaining earthly years in sucking in a small portion of tho milk of wisdom, in acquiring some, fraction of that sapience that kept Reynard from descending the well. Shunning oven the appearuace of au alias, my name is as of yore. ALFRED LYON.