MR RENALL'S RETIREMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1016, 7 March 1882, Page 2

MR RENALL'S RETIREMENT.

Mr Renall convened a meeting of his supporters in the Town Hull last evening. At a quarter past eight nearly forty persons assembled, and the proceeding commenced. Many persons seeing the Hall lit up passed in and out at intervals to see what was going on, and at one time between fiftyand sixty persons were pre*, sent in addition to a thin string of youths in the gallery, Mr Renall moved that Mr Worth take the chair. He asked Him with a view of bringing him a little more before the public. (Applause), The chairman, who was well received, bespoke an impartial hearing for the candidate and all who might follow him, and concluded a few well chosen remarks by calling upon Mr Renall. Mr Renall commenced by declaring , that it was not his intention to contest the election with Mr Peist. He thought the time had arrived when the Borough should be divided into Wards, (loud applauße), as the majority of councillors were now Queen-st., tradesmen. Seventy or eighty signatures would ho sufficient to bring about the change, and he knew that number could be readily got. Mr Feist had no respect for a fair balanoe of representation or he would not have coma forward, There were, too, bo many nf them (his audience) bad on the roll through non-payment of rates, and th*t militated against their side. He proposed therefore to divide the Borough into four Wards, and to give three member* to eaoh Ward. He himself had no intention of occupying any more public offices, it was his intention to retire. He then referred to the old story (if fhe LSOO Local Board ' Bill—the Woodroofe plan grievance—the Perry-st, obstruction, and matters still mora remtte

us reasons why he should not vote for M I Feist. He also took a turn with the Borough by-laws and bridge planking, and. weund up with a little personal abuse of Mr Feiat, whom he compared to'an old rotten cheese: Shopkeepers, he said were better fitted for measuring out dirty oalico and butter than for looking after the affairs of the Borough. He next referred'to the Town Trust question, and attacked Mr Feist ;for;not resigning when requested to do so, He intimated that one reason why it ma not desirable that he Bhould be in the MfluglNCouucil was because it inherited from the Highway Board a liability to. himself which he intended to enforce..!He then went into the pound question, complaining of the ranger taking cattle' off the frontage of a man's own property (a voice, he has taken them out of the yard). He had never done that with him, but he bad gone devilish olose to it. .'He. advised them not to trouble about - the present election as the present.Council was about to be extinguished. A petition was already drafted, and.would bei shbrtly taken round for their signature. j He'designated Mr Feist and his'committee''M-Bne'skß, who would bring all the old .ladies in the place up to vote, He complained, teo, of the borough vala&tiot), and declared that his own properties had' been unfairly assessed. He did not see Mr Corbett there that evening. If he, were he should advise him to retire. ~t Mr Eenall having Bat.dbwn,-theJChair-man invited any person to put queitioni to it as to whom be should support supposing there were a second, candidate in the present contest, He also .expressed an opinion that while the assessment was based on the fee simple value of property an,, equitable valuation could not be Mr McCardle nßked Mr Roflall it he would convehe a publio meeting on the question of dividing, the borough, ; - Mr Eeiiall replied that he would join Mr McCardle or anyone else in securing the best divisions obtainable, ' The Chairman suggested that a publio meeting, might appoint/a committee .to arrange the divisions,; v . After a rather irregular discussion on the method for dividing the borough into Wards, a remarkably quiet and orderly meeting dispersed. ? ;• ! f