THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 27 March 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1880.

We cannot congratulate either the Council or His Worship the Mayor upon the manner in which the matter of asphalting was discussed at the late meeting. The good sense of both sides seemed to have left them, the Council for introducing a personal matter, which should hare been settled between the person for whom the work was done and the collector of the Borough, and the Mayor for treating the matter as he did. Such exhibitions are discreditable, and are calculated to lower in the eyes of the burgessess both the office of Mayor and Councillor. The Mayor displayed very bad taste, and used an exceptionally bad argument wh6n he referred to the money he had spent in the Borough, and hating gone on Borough business without charging his expenses. The inconsistency of the course followed is further shown by the fact that His Worship when a Councillor was one of a Committee who recommended that the price should be that at which he has been charged, and which he now considers an extortionate one. We regret that the matter ever appeared before the Council, and especially in the form it assumed at the late meeting.