Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 107, 12 February 1901, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

According to an ex

municipal change, twenty • five candidates, candidates have been nominated for the seven seats on the " Nelson Harbour Board. Why this thusness? It..,cannot be that the northern " Sleepy Hollow ” is undergoing the same galvanism as its younger brother a mile or two south. I would suggest that the Borough Council send a few experienced members to show them how we do it in Waimate. These -things take running, don’t you Show. Perhaps the Nelsonians would ask them to stop,,and oar rulbg family would be gone * for ever, a consummation devoutly to be wished.

A Sunday or two ago a cat one of our local Volunteers stoev. was seized with the desire to spill some gore. This was partly the result of reading the war news, and partly the result of it being a holiday. He couldn’t go to work and he couldn’t go to church, because (tell it not in Gath) his better half had hung all his collars on a bush to dry, and the kitten had eaten a goodly portion of each. Here was a subject to satiate bis vengeance and pass time. So he got a backet of water, placed a string and stone round the little I uiimal’s neck, and left it immersed I ill it floated heels upward. Then ho liung it with unnecessary violence into paddock of wheat close by. Thus ..ir, good. He ate a good dinner that day, and felt satisfied with his brave deed. The sequel remains to be told. On Wednesday evening he was shaving, with intent to go the play, when a series of mews sounded at his feet. It was the mother cat, which, seeing the Volunteer with the razor in his hand, had escorted the poor halfchoked kitten in, that the string night be cut. It is only necessary to add that they all lived happy eve r afterwards.

It is fortunate indeed for boeough the ratepayers of Wairaate battles, that there is a strong enough party on the side of “ law and order ” to prevent the selfish measures of the obstructionist faction being rushed through regardless of future consequences. In no case was i his more apparent than that of the library grant. Mr Clement sent a long opinion, totally unasked for, to the Council as to that

body's legal right to hand over the £123 belonging to the library. The opposition members wished to send this opinion to the solicitor for municipal bodies in Wellington, for his opinion, without ever consulting the borough solicitor on the subject. Fortunately they were prevented from adopting this high handed course, but it shows what they would do an they could. In such a hurry were these champions of the people ” to “ get at ” the other side that they failed to discover at least two accounts in which the Council were overcharged considerably more than they were squabbling over. However, even the firmest supporters of “ the five ” are asking what they put them back for. It certainly was not that they might make the borough the laughing stock of the colony. Can anyone solve the mystery ?