The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1885.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5064, 8 April 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1885.

So much has been written and said in ' connection with the troubled state of Borough affairs tbatit seems almoft noper;flttoas.ioadd^theweaUhofwprdß;a]readf : ;expe'naed'on:lh'ißqaestion^'^UichJs,\t6.atfy.' calm and reasonable mind, one so easily sblred. '.-"situation in itself, as far as the' public is concerned^ ig as simple as °»n, J».e. We harei through,the machina* tipns; of those interested in the action of one local body an opposed to that of another, a most peculiar excrescence in the shape of a ward consisting of ten persons tacked on to the Borough. These .teni persons are—-according toanAct of Parliament, passed without hftTing in view such a gituation-^-aiioirlßd; to elect tiree representstires to a Council, the members of which -^as a -.; whple--are selected by more than fifty times their number, whiVe those composing the remainder of this bpuncilpnly number nine. The absurdity of (he tiling is raaaifest. In one case ten people are dlio wed to send as many repre■entatWen to tbe body as two hundred iir«

i stood that the passing of a law permitting | the existence of such an anomaly was , quite an inadvertence, but that advantage should be. taken of such iriadvertance reflects but little lustre on those who I would do it. Putting aside the hard fact i that an act of Parliament has decreed that any Ward of a Borough containing within its limits'a less number of rate* j payers than twenty-five shall cease to be a separate Ward of that Borough, and shal| be merged in another .Ward, a common sense view of the case could not suggest any other-oourne. All the turmoil and trouble which has arisen in the case of this Parawai Ward is—there is .no vac in blinking the fact—the result of personal feeling, and the system adopted of sinking the public weal in order to gratify private ends, we most decidedly condemn. It h, on the face of it, out of all reason,Cthafc a fourth of the Borough Council should, represent ten persons, and circumstances do not seem to portend that the interests of the three and a third men represented by each of the Parawai Councillors would be neglected in their absence. In the event of the latter feeling existing in the minds of the Councillors, we think we may safely assure the three members that the wants of the Ward will more

than probably be fully considered, and carefully attended to, by the South Ward representatives so soon as the law entailing annexation is complied with. It is a misfortune to the place that the business of the Borough should be obstructed by internecine strife, more especially as the character of the warfare is of so unworthy a nature. A certain amount of wonder •rises when the idea presents itself that the people put up with such behariour on the part of public men. One inevitable i conclusion can only be arrived at, and that is that they (the people) are tame indeed. Tomorrow a special meeting is to be held, having for its chief object the merging of this farcical lump on the municipal face, and wo car nestly trust that the action then taken will remove this,bone of contention from our midst. ," .