Scene inside the Council Chambers.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3053, 27 November 1878, Page 2

Scene inside the Council Chambers.

Present: Mr Dean and Mr Rawdon. Mr Dean : Well, Eawdon, T don't like the look ot things. At Mac's meeting on Monday night Jiowe spoke and placed matters re reduction of salaries in' such 'a light that none of our side Councillors, with all their plausible (sauve).talk can get over it; there was a sort of earnestness backed by justice in his remarks as regards ourselves, thai; my opir:on is, there's danger ahead. And then again, if the doctor loses his seat, as I am pretty sure he will-t-all owing 4o his own fault, and,his committee's, in exposing their hands— ' ■ Mr Eawdon: What do you mean by " exposing their hands ? " '* < Mr Dean : In the first place the doctor has got pretty well all he requires done to his property, and then he is so conceited that he considers that the {sic) honor he is' paying the' burgesses- by representing, them ■as chairman of . the Board is equivalent to any sum of money i .other Mayors, may subscribe, in | any cause called, for. , As an instance of what an ass he must be, especially on the eve of; his .election, on Monday he placed his name down for fifty shares in the Karaka Tunnel;, to-day jthetalk all around) the town is—"the, doctor has gone to Otto requestingjhim to take twenty-five shares oft'; as he had ho faithjh it." " , { Mr Eawdon—W herd' the devil was the Committee ? the dr-r—d fool. , j ; . Mr Dean—Attf where P His dhief henohman (Speight) is far worse ihan him, as at the last Board meeting reithat contract of Punch, he as much as said the contractors were liars., He did wrong in not taking' Punch's part and seeing j him righted. Now, you and I know perfectly well, Tom, that Punch was pretty correct. It Mao gets in he will put aome awkward questions * o us, if its only to find fodder tor that Star of his, and— j - Enter Doctor—My dear Dean, If am beginning to suspect that I have majde a great mistake in allowing myself th be nominated for the Mayoralty, for the following reasons:—ln the first place, 1 the cost; secondly, Mr Eowe's speecfy re salaries; thirdly^ the great blunder I made by requesting Mr Ottfrto withdraw my name from the Karaka scheme, !as I had no faith in it My committeej are nearly all parties surrounding my jproperty, and will be benefited by my election, is fifthly; and the sixthly is, jthat my chances are very poor for. re-election, and I dread the sum of money I shall be called upon to pay—for, I may say, .nothing. I shall go home, and take a composing draught.—Exit all.