The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1883. WELLINGTON SCANDALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1477, 7 September 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1883. WELLINGTON SCANDALS.

Wellington is obtaining an unenviable notoriety for mismanaging its local institutions. Every now and again some case crops up which shows that the publio men of the Empire citv aro miserable sinners. During the past few years instances of this description will be remembered in connection with the Athenteum, Lunatic Asylum, and Hospital, and now there is reason to believe that the City Council hai . been bungling its affairs in a most dis graceful manner. There are plenty ol good business men in Wellington, bul , apparently they prefer to attend t( , their own private affairs and leave public institutions very much in the hands of men with little or no business capacity. It is high time that a change was made in this respect. Wellington is laughed at all over the colony for the palpable blunders it makes in the conduct of its public institutions, and now that a perfect conglomerate of municipal mistakes has been brought to light it will probably excite contempt as well as amusement, The radicals of Wellington City carry all before them in municipal matters. Tliey put in as Mayor for two successive years a parliamentary reporter who was possibly one of the most unsuitable men who could have been selected, and now the town is beginning to suffer the consequences of its folly. Wo do not believe there is a municipality in th« colony that is mismanaged to tliQ* extent that the City of Wellington is, or one where ratepayers pay higher rates and get less in return for them, It is to be hoped that, casting party feeling on one Bide, the ratepayers will recognise the expediency of getting soihe two or three capable business men to sit in. the Council, and put matters a little straight, Wo believe that Mr George Fisher is an able journalist and honorable man, but it is quite ovident that his want of ordinary business knowledge has placed the City Council into a position from which it oannot extricate itself without serious pecuniary loss. His election as Mayor was a party move, .and party movements seem in this instance, as in others, to have been very disastrous to the best interests of the Empire City.