BOROUGH LEGAL CHARGES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 987, 31 January 1882, Page 2

BOROUGH LEGAL CHARGES.

■the Editor Wairahapa Daily.) -In your issue of the 21st instant appears a letter headed Borough Solicitor, and signed A, B. Bunny, in a portion of which ho makes reference to me as having made a statement which he challenges as being false, yizr,-.that Mr BunnyVohavges iriliddition to : his'retf.inr ing fee of £loloa wok exorbitant. The statement I there made I am prepared to prove in spite of his elaborate address through your columns. Mr Bunny goes on to say that he never received the' retaining lee of £lolos for the year 1877 and 1878. This I admit, hut | v/oujd call hjs attention to the facj that I did not state that lio'Weivec? it'| he also omits to enlighten your readers upon the subject as to the reason why he did not receive it. On or about the month of October 1878, Mr Bunny rendered an account to the Council amounting in all to the sum of £52 2s 4d, out of which he had paid £2 to fees out of pocket, leavin» a balance of £SO 2s 4d for work done, made up in somowhat the following manner.; -March tho Bth, engaged from lj. a.m. to 10'' p.in, at Assessment 'Cjoufj nh behalf of the Borough, £6 Qs; March' Qth, engaged from 9.30 a.m.'to 0 p.m.' noon the same duties, £0 Ot; preparing Borough By-laws, £2l, The balance"! £l7 10s 8d was made up chiefly by attending Councillors, Town Clerk, Inspector of Nuisances,' and R.M. Court., in sums of from (js B,d to £1 Js, Mr Bunny says that he never oliaraed hi? retaining fee, "nevo> theirs, lie, Rfr Bunny, fully'expected that it would'ha 'oaid, which was qulita natural, considering he had it voted by tl,| Council; and he showed your readers thai; I am, right wl|en I say that the expected that the £IQ 10s would coyeru| cnst^,. prepHrin'g by : law§ ojccopted. I ' must (juote his own words. In thq letter written; by lp'iii and published in your columns in tfte soyaral clausps in refer'rjnjj to Mr jfqOardle, h,e (Mr Bqn'ny), oallg your readors'attentipn, to tho fqcf the Council paqsecj ij resolqtjqn % \\\s 24th June, 1879, about a month after the above mentioned.account was paid, that Mr Bmjny for the retaining feo of £lO 10a was to give advice to Council and Town Olerk, thus shewing himself that in the opinion of the Council his previous charges must have been exorbitant, qr•■why the necessity of any such, resolution ohtfce matter, |t is plain, Sic, that in spite 1 of o'urlegalfriend'sdxplalii'i tion through your columns, that' the Council had to pay for the year 1'877. to 78, the sum qf £!}f| 2s Bd, 'ezclusivq'bf thq cost of. preparing by-laws,' and it} plajtj figures J?1812s 8d more than they expeqted to pay,' However, onoe bit twice shy. . The Council have siuco the above transaction fought a little shy of our legal friend.;; I feel that I may he somewhat trespassing on your space, but I could not, ajhw a'statement, made by me in my oapaoity as Councillor and representing the interests of the inhabitants of KfasterJ tort, to te challenged,' as false without defending myself. • ' :• •',: ;i . V ' I am, &c, •Job Vile. : mh^ mm*mxmmmJL'"' Twowliarf laborers, named Peter Walsh, and Tl)oti)as Brown,' mot 1 widf accidents wljil§t aJiwovk ijn t|)e bavqiie tfQVth;. a shire and Rqto'malia'na yesterday, ' % The former wasassisting tq disohargo cargo from the Perthshire andgat'liiq "' > finger jammed, which, necessitated a visit: • i to Dr Diver's surgery, where it was fonnd advisibk'.to amputato the point of a ' second finger. Brown received similar injury .whilst* handling sorqe • railway \m tffs.ol33.rge4 frqm the liotomahana, anij a like operation was performpd QU hjin by'ljlr V)Mi '•'•Bdiir'meii wjll be in> capaqitateij ftom wov,k for ft fow ijaysi ; ' Tl(e,BtqciqfC/#% for'Sfen'i, Youths.' and Boys' wear has beeu maije tq' specia rder for ft 4ro ffim, All lnatqrialo hive been carefully selected and all stylos jnd|, cious'y chosen. Belter value it k impossible. -, . ' to obtain,'. Oat great speciality of Te Aro / House js tub immense variety of fays' and YktW Clothing, parents -and Gu«dians i' rait and weiid* their, way: to ;Ja?w •S'mitfi TtArdHoMi. .-■ ; /. r . A ; 'tnp'toti)'eJmpiiw.,City..may not:onlyi .1 be who can Q,)mhjriq bns'iiiess with pleasire, :'|i must: bo grattifying"]o irifigeet' the j Jkree :;: stocks of seasonable DmpdiJ aqd : Ciqtlmg, ': such as can be. only in a vast centre qf '-■ pomlatlotf like the City of WellhMon,'! ■'•- t visitoya, fromthe Wairarapa will find one of i the larf-Bt and bestselqctei MamSuWi