THE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3167, 14 April 1879, Page 2

THE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

i (To the Editor of the Erening SUrl) ■' Siß.^On reading; the Star on Saturday < night, and the proceedings of the Borou£hi I Council. therein ! reported (I may, '■'•ay r :-f {being a subscriber only of your paper, > and it not being published on Good Friday), I could not comment thereon earlier, and I now crave ■ yoar iv« ? dulgence to allow me to do so. I sh^all Bkip/Arqugh/tjiejgeneralireppri e&eptiftjf, to makearemark en passant Ihatiitwa in execrable bad taste for a certain member (being of the sameprofession) to hare mede a move at all re Mr Miller's general retainer business, as it had a brassy ring with it that savoured much of the crow find fci argumeat. • But It ilia reg«^| ftn the Mayors salary that I wishto beniore particular. Mr' Brassey,^ra?hia gentle* nmly remarks (ag usual when the mmlL $ajo£ oaft be - go! at) said: «*¥# w4? Strongly opposed t> the Mayor*! lalary^ as it«c*ftiW'im<»' tot wmpiteiU taiatfiro to the pontiahi Hadlh9 intendfdr to more that it be struok -oat. If that were don* he was fure men of his\*r $t*miing: in the community would stand for the/ Mayoralty. He would raore.'Jhat the Mayor's. salary be abolished, aiad only actual.trarelling and other expenses incurred by t •. him,: : be ; paid." .'V/I,' hara italicised ,th«> gentlemanly Teaasjfki,. 10 that it may not be lost ; sight of, ' and to draw, the . atUntion ; . of the burgesses ■. who Toted , for prefient Mayor to the opinion Mr; Bnwisey entertains of their Rental 'cajibre^be* bause I with others consiflep it « direct insult, and we will know, when the election; is on again for |Qcwnei^fs i ~or perhaps Mayor—who if the fittest person tooocupy th^.ehtv, notwithstaiding Mr Brassey's opinion—as ire doltft^consider* himashiniogli^ht.thpqgh a lawyer, in& the counsels orthe Borough. 1 say it, jwith others,, that ijtr| Brassey, wou^d, be the i wrong' • man "fa . gwe- *waj '"hif ,- - jand trouble for the welfare of the Borough,' even m Mayor, •jpecially when; We haTjj' - to pay 6s ;8d so oiten for so «*s,>when, itisoiir misfortune to law; and I, and alroTtn, say that an unpaid Mayor wouldrdbe no Mayor atall, raJ that Mr Meanie's.motionof £tOO was a very business-like view of the matter, and Would, have met with the iwishes of the majority of the burgesses— nctwitstanding the poverty cry of Messrs Bragiey and Speight. I could say much |a o: ?, but time and your space probably jwiU npt eifow? me, sp tak^e ,jsjgjr, wpri s for. ithe deed, and remain yours, mfc? ' "-,''--■ j ... • r<r ,/AVOTIB. ■■ \ Shortland, April 14th, 1879.