MASTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 640, 10 December 1880, Page 2

MASTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

"-—, ■"»' —— '■.■"' (Continued from last issue). LICENSING VKHULEB. i ' fa Ob Yiib reported that the Committee ap-.; •■ pointed to draw up a scale ,of ohargei '" : "; recommended the following rates:— Table of Rates and Fares tobe charged ,: '; for any hackney carriage'plying for.-.. ~ hire at any place witliin the.Bor^ v v-' •- .. of Maaterton .-•V' :i m>'. !° By Time ;. . 2horsei. 1 horse '■'■ '£bd £ a d ■ By the day, i.e,, 10 con- ' eeoutive hours between ;•■'•. 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. .. 110 0-1 0 0 ■Byhour,ffrsthour : .. o, i 0-0 3 0 For -every subsequent . j-hour'..."'- .. '..' 01 0-0 0 9' By Distance,—To and from the Rail- ■■• way "Station, and any of the following places.:—Queen • street' from Waipoua Bridge to,Renall-sfc., Cole-street, Terry-/. sfc., Wrigley-st., Viotoria-st., Albert-st.",- : < •■ Villa-st., Bentley-st,, Lincoln Road, and Hall-st., Ohapel-st. from':Waipouaßiver to per passenger, 6d. Outside the above distriot the following additional: '•■'"' fares.;— Not exceeding half a mile, per • ' passenger, 6d; for every additional half-... - mile, 6d. -j .. • - EXPRESS WAGONS, ■By distance Sowt lOcwt 15cwt 20cwt" SD . SB 3D 8 D Erst mile 16 2.0 2 6 3 0 Everysubsequent mile or fraction. ■ ■ • ofamile .. 9 10 13 10 ,By time.—First half-hour, la 6d; every subsequent half, la Sd; for a day of 8 hours, 18s. • Double fares after 7 p.m. or before 1 a.m. 10 cubic feet measurement to be equivalent to scwt. Furniture and pianos to be charged by agreement. Drays—By distance. Not exceeding 20cwt—First mile, 2a 6d; every subsequentmi.le or fraction of a mile, Is, By time—First hour, 2s; overy subie6d; for a day of 8 hours, . Us,,' .

Cr Vile suggested that a special meeting:." should be. held, if the Council approved of ■ the seals submitted, to pass necessary by.. km for carrying it out. / The, Mayor thought that the adoption of such a Bcale was premature, but that an alteration in their present by-laws was necessary/ " "Cr Russell would like time to- consider ' the question raised. ■. . Oc.McOacdle. understood that the Com« •.. raittee.. simply wished to know if the Council.'Was prepared, to go into the matter. -Ho himself was iu favor of a special.meeting on the subject., 'On the motion of Or Vile, It was-resolved that a special meeting be held''on Tuesday next to considerJhe' revision of the by-laws. J-i

[To the Editor of the Wairiuapa Daily.] \ ■ Sib,—Will you kindly allow Bpace in : your' valuable paper for a few remarks in ' reply to a letter appearing in your, issue k. - af the 6th insfc., written by some evil dis. posed persoji,Bigning himself "Fair Play," .\; whioli .ia .-simply a composition of lies and ■/■"■- yenion from'first to last,.withouteveu the *'•> • : '- ; semblance of truth, and I cannot imagine u>how '•ariy'tme' with common Bense could/";. pect.it to-be believed. Firjitir"hTaßserts v-v that the "three-year-old colt! Gladstone, exhibited by me at the late Wairarapaaud •East Ooaat. Pastoral and Agricultural .: Society's |3ho,w, is not owned'by me, and . i can simplyjay that it ia an utter falsehbddi 'which;l can fully prpve to Mr "Fair Play's,,'satisfaction, or any one else's, and ... t neither stole the horse,nor the oats to feed him..; Second, "Fair Play "asserts that reiiteredthe draught mare Darling in the'class of brood mares, she being a dry mare. .'Now if the gaining of points had been my sole object in exhibiting, and. I had thought she was not in foal, by <. entering her in the dry mare class I would have had two. points more than I had, as I had three wet mares without Darling to beat anything on the ground, as a good many know very well, but as not only myself, but Mr. J. Drummond, (who had the mare all the season), and the hands about the place, belioved her to be in foal, I entered her as so, thereby losing two points, and if I had been very anxious about points, I could have shown another entire horse, also my own property, and gained a few more. Third, with regard to Mr Hill's special prize for the two best foals by Prince Charlie, he says that f exhibited one by Bungarabee, and one by Lord Palmerston, which is a most barefaced untruth, as the two foals which I exhibited were.both by Prince Charlie, which I can prove, and now Mr Editor, from the above faots you will plainly see that the object of" Fair Play ,r (in rushing into "print with a lot of falsehoods) i>,. not as he would' have the' public believe the exposure of a fraud being practised on the Pastoral and Agricultural Society, but a mean and spiteful attempt (under the name of" Fair Play,") to injure myself. ■ . , lam &0., -A, Mania Dec. .Bth.. V P.S.. With regard to the protests which " Fair Play "alleges have been lodged, I can only say that I have never heard of anything of' the kind having beon done, but I will be very willing to sustain any charge brought forward in a straightforward way, on any of the above grounds.