CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1024, 16 March 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE.DIVISION OF IHE'BOROrJGH into' wards; I'HA

ToTHß ; Eraioi'-;i'i;Hf Sir,—ln my; last' '• -Jetteri •, Councillors of grinding .each-other's axes, and I condemned the, Mayor";forj liot en- ; ideavoring to prevent thia - state, To show that I ha'y'e made "inOi'id'la acousation I will enumerate ;aiifew/!cajes in point, _ ;] ' ':; ;'i/-j-pn/' Councillors areypting th'emselyes snug billets;to one a.',borough'[.engineersnip, to another a borqugh'jpoundkeepe'rship, another being largely, jnterestejliin's particular: estate, entera.the GoimciKand assists his relations ■to } ca;.ry, ; Aliejlggal acceptance by the. borough of |anumber of new unformed streets>nd" the Adenine and construction of an/old jonejl ilWhen this is arranged he!gracefully thanks the burgesses for their-,, kind i.favors/, and .quietly retires from ,th'e tfounciljtg the more congenial sphero money gru|bing behind the counter!,', Another, .Councillor contrived to get a sea nf'grairef spread before his own door his property on the pretence that; the Vhole ptreet was to be formed and, metailed,ybni ihaving made "his marble good,"'he quietly dropped the question of completing the street and quietly goes in for curbing that portion which lends from his house to the ' town.

The result of all this is that while Borough Councillors with a greatly dininished revenue have been boldly aunching out the borough funds to pro- " ode billots for needy fellow Councillors, ind improving the streets round each rther'a property, the borough overdraft las been speedily increasing until it now itanda at £SOO. If the pleasant relations jetween the bank and the borough, which vera so graphically described by Mr ffiarr it a late dinner, are tocontinue, thislrW. iverdraft must ba discontinued. There cannot be the least doubt but nany of the above irregularities could lave been prevented by his Worship the aayor. had he chosen to exercise his met. It was his duty to stand between hose ferocious Councillors and the ratelayers, and he should have strenuously ipposed councillors stultifying themselves b the way they have done, he should have ised overy legitimate means to prevent he bare-faced jobbery that' has been ioingon.butin place of this he has not floe raised his voice against it. I will iot say that because he was nominated nd put in his present position by Mr tenall, that he (His Worship the Mayor) onmves at this undesirable state of this n order to create dissatisfaction, and so orce a division of the borough into \ards. But if ho does not bestir him- * elf there will be some reason for supposng that he is the puppet, and that a entloman pulls the string who is responlble for his actions neither to the ratepayers nor to the Council. His Worship hows unusual eagerness to have Ban-iister-st., widened formed and metalled, rfiile the people in many other streets "'' nth four times the population will have o wade knee deep in mud this coming 'inter to get into the business parts of ho town, yet Bannister-street has already - good metalled road, But I can forgive urn for this because I know that street Bads to his acre or so of land, and it is m natural that whilo ho gives ao muoh f hia valuable timo to the burgesses the lurgesses should In return give some of heir hard cash to improve communication o His Worship's property. . .:..,, It is alleged that the division of the" ' wough into Wards'will be a cure for the ibove evils, but I trust the ratepayers mil not make up their minds, till the-v question has been.thoroughly :: sifted 1 ''in • my opinion it should be looked upon as a last resource, when things are unbearable, and after every other means have failed even then I fear that, the 'cure,whT< bet -it wors9than the disease*,;. I am, &c, rnr i '., •' ; , :' V # T ORU SquaSeJ!' "3 [We hope that the next time" 6u'r ; corres.-' v pondeut favors us he will be a little less bilious, and not draw wrong conclusions from imaginary facts.-tEd.sW.l),]

A pair of twins avo now livm«-;in- ' Virgma. who are 93 years old. m :.,, A Denver newspaper lias been sued for oalling ardeacon "a fine old rooster." Sound travels faster in glass than' in any other medium-18,000 feet per second l

Cartorton v a proof of who ■ ' are thochoapeßt Btorekeepors in ,t!io ,Waira/ rapa we wish to draw our readers' special''' attention to B. tisement on ,our front pageU. This firm is determined to' keep up : their 'reputation. From the time of their commenomg business : ->- >! i in Carterton they have repeatedly;.proved that they can withstand competition; n6 r -'l A ;i matter how strong. It is therefore ridiououa for another storekeeper from a neighboring township to-post price lists to their otistoniors : and presto' soljat (wholesale prices, when for the smallest; A. Gardener &, Soil supply goods. in ialibjL' v every instance 10' to 15 per cent cheape™ and m large qualities still 'further, conoes Bionsar(jmadfl.~^ADy7, .i ■■;