THE SUPERINTENDENT OF MARLBOROUGH.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 197, 28 June 1860, Page 3

THE SUPERINTENDENT OF MARLBOROUGH.

In last- week’s Chronicle we gave some ex-

tracts* from-the Superintendent’s opening ad- !. dress, professing* a > more than republican simplicity and. economy iu government. But, as

will be observed from the following extract, from a letter in the Marlborough Press of the '9th inst., the Superintendent’s idea of good government consists in the centralisation of all the well paid offices in his own person. ' “ It would seem" incredible* were not the truth established by the records of the Provincial Council of Marlborough, and other unquestionable authority, that the men who so lustily railed a few months ago against the extraxagarice. of the Nelson Government, and who so loudly trumpeted forth what-their .own patriotism and economy would be if tlieir fel-low-settlers would only join them in obtaining separation, now that separation is obtained, have trampled their former vaunting professions under foot, and have actually voted out of the first year’s revenue to Mr. Adams, the leading patriot and economist of this small province, not- much short of Two Thousand Pounds!!! The sums are:

“ Superintendent (13 months and 3 J weeks) at per annum £SOO. £577 2s 6d ; Provincial Solicitor (ditto, ditto), at per annum .£2OO. £231 ss; Provincial Secretary (ditto, ditto), at per annum £IOO, £lls 12s 6d; Commissioner of Crown Lands from Nov. 1, 1859, to June 30. 1860, at per annum .£4OO, <£666 13s 4d; making the sum actually voted on Saturday, £1590 13s 4d. “ And .on the Estimates, but not yet discussed, Separation expenses, £IOO ; Expenses of attending settlement of Trustees and Provincial account, £3OO ; the share of which that will probably go into Mr. Adams’s packet may he estimated at £250. Total, £IB4O 13s. 4d.

“ It is true that Mr. Adams’s modesty would .not permit him to be present when friends were to vote him the above enormous sums ; but none need imagine that Mr. Adams and Mr. Goulter, the leaders of their party * did not in the Estimates, as in all other former subjects, settle and arrange beforehand every point of procedure with their friends.”