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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1780, 5 September 1884, Page 2

. When the flood talk abates we may expect to Bflothe approaching municipal contest attract a good deal of public attention. The speciality of this election is that an unusually 'large field of eight candidates face Mr E, Brown, the starter, and it ip somewhat difficult to spot the ones tjjat will be placed. Jt is evident th# baleen gome of them

it will. be neck. and. neok.When Messrs, Caselberq and Price 'announced tliafc they were nqt going to seek re-election, we feared that it might be difficult to find representatives to continue the work they had so satisfactorily discharged in the Council. We heard that several leading settlers had been asked to come forward but ' that they had deolined to stand. - At this stage, feeling that it was of the first importance to obtain desirable candidates, we,joined in.requisitions which were presented to .Messrs Bacon andRAPr, ;two burgesses .who are well known to have the interests'of the town at heart,'and to ,be always ready to do anything in their-power'to promote them. It was a satisfaction' to us to find that both Messrs Bacon and Rafp weire willing to become candidates,, as we knew that the ratepayers would, with their assistance, have an opportunity of putting in good men. We assumed; as a matter of course, that Mr Gapper would be re-elected. His past services to the Borough need no recapitulation, and it is "to the interests', of.the ratepayers tore-elect him. We are aware that Mr Gapper has occasionally U'od'oirthe corns of some burgesses, but "judging his long' munioipaT'oareei- to'i 'Whole,- it- is a record of useful and Conscientious work,-done'in the best interests'of the town, and we should' be sorry to believe that such efforts for the good of the community should be unappreciated,' Wfi therefore assumed that there were but two seats,to be filled by new men. We were a little surprised after Messrs Bacon and Rafp had been requested to come forward, to. find a number of other good and eligible candidates putting up their names. Though somewhat astonished wedid not for a moment regret that the burgesses thereby had such ai wide choice of desirable candidates, or that men like Messrs Muir, Galloway, and GißDWooDsought seats in the Borough Council. If there is any disappointment it is that there is not as yet room for all of them round the Council table,' and some of them will have to .be shelved till another opportunity offers.' : Mr, Muir has already done good public work in the Fire Brigade and in the Town Lands Trust ho ion promising member. Mr Galloway us a director of the local Building and Investment Society, and an a member of the Public School Committee lias gained the respeol and confidence of all who have been associated with him, and Mr Thomas Price Girdwood with his Hope-street pebble on one occasion did good service to the Borough and taught the Public Works Committee a lesson which'has not yet been forgotten. There are.two other candidates of whose chances we do not think as much, and lor very, opposite reasons; the one because we don't know • him ,as a- public man and the other because we do know him in that capacity, We have been acquainted ' with Mr Cui,len for several yealrs aiid always fouhd ; him to be an intelligent and enterprising settler, but we never knew him to take .any part in public business, and we fancy his reticence in tfijs fespecfc- will be against him in his present candidature, especially when running against competitors who have by actnal public work proved their fitness for a public position, We may, of course, be mistaken on this point, and shall be happy to hear anything which Mr Gulden or his friends may have to say on his behalf. We should be sorry to any way prevent him from obtaining a fair chance in the munioipal race. ;

The Post is beginning to advocate a dissolution, but we do not believe, that this alternative is either a probable or a desirable one. The solution of the political tangle will be the rupture that must sooner or later take place between Sir Julius Vogel and Mr Stout. When Conservatives go to the right and Radicals to the left, party Government will again have a fair chance in New Zealand.

The ratepayers will be pleased to : see from last night's "meeting of the Borough Council that at laat the Board of Health iagrappling.with .the work of sanitary reform in Masterton. The manner in which. the Counoil ia dealing pith nuisances is perhapß open to the objection of being more spasmodio than systematic, When the Council paßsea a,resolution that a particular manure heap shall be removed, while possibly there are a hun« dred similar collections of refuse in the ■Boroggh, it bringß .a Naysmith hammer down on a tack. Resolutions of 'the Board of Health should ba general in their character. It'is quite unnecessary to parade A, B, and 0 before the public as sanitary offenders,'unless they should pf'ive contumacious and dispute orderß issued by the Board. Tlie method adopted, by Ilia Council ia apt to oreate an. tinnecessary amount of friction'; but =thia" consideration ia, after all, altogether a ; minor Dlie, iij view of -the great good, which is likely. Jo rosqlt to the health of; tha town -fi'omAthr-Operations of . the Board, .'