THE DELEGATE QUESTION.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2962, 13 August 1878, Page 3

THE DELEGATE QUESTION.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sic, — Notwithstanding the resolution of the public meeting last night, I wo'ild suggest to the members of the Borough Council to delay appointing their delegate to be sent io Wellington. In a telegram appearing in your issue of last night it was said that the Eailway Bill was beforo the Cabinet, and why a decision was not come to last evening appears from a subsequent telegram to be owing to the ill health of Sir George Grey. It was ruled by the Speaker of the House of Assembly, when a former Bill was introduced, that it being a money Bill could only be brought in by the Government, therefore the Bill rests from that cause in the hands of the Government, and if the Cabinet decide in not furthering the measure the matter is at an end. The decision of the Cabinet will be. known within a day or so, wherefore, then, the necessity of sending a delegate to Wellington ? All the eloquence of a special advocate from here would not be able to change the decision of the Cabinet, and if Sir George Grey is noc influenced by the knowledge that he promised to support a Bill ■ for such a purpose a delegate's exertions will never influence him or his Cabinet. ,If anything were wanting to show the lamentable mental state of His Worship the Mayor and the childishness that is coming upon him, his remarks thanking the tneeting for, their appreciation of his integrity, honesty and ability in sending him as a delegate to Wellington would prove it. Why he is. notyet appointed, and may not, nor is he the proper person to be sent, after the exhibition he made of himself last night. Such a spectacle was never witnessed on the Thames before ; such egotism, such want of common delicacy of feeling for a person to show when speaking of himself, may never, I trust, be shown again by a public man. ' Ratepayee.