THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1880.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3605, 16 July 1880, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT YOUR FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1880.

The Borough Council at their last few meetings have gone out of the usual course with regard to the telegrams received. Instead of being read and passed one by one as should have been done, they were " taken as read." This course entails ignorance of their purport on the representatives of the Press, and the public are therefore left in entire obscurity. This has been done several times before, and in adopting the course, the Councillors hare been actuated by the same motive as led them to keep the public in ignorance as to the late mess— the misleading of their constituents. A telegram was received last evening from His Worship the Mayor, stating that he had interviewed the Annuities Commissioners with the object of obtaining a loan for the Bbroughof £7000. Now, the Council evidently wished to keep this dark, so. they resorted to the unbusinesslike method wo have mentioned. The resolution was moved by a young Councillor, who not having been more than a few months in the Council, cannot be expected to understand constitutional niceties. We should however, recommend him in future to be careful ere he commits an action which may be construed into a deliberate intention of the Councillors'to blind the public as to the real state of affairs. It is not right that the ratepayers should wake up one morning to find themselves burdened with fresh interest, and the Councillors are highly culpable for endeavoring to keep the action of the Mayor a secret.