HIS TRIBUTE TO MUNICIPAL ELOQUENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2580, 23 April 1887, Page 2

HIS TRIBUTE TO MUNICIPAL ELOQUENCE.

. The ordinary business of the City Council at last evening's meetiug'wafi concluded, and his Worship the Mayor'- ' announced that the Council would no j go into Committee. The oustoma'ry :■'_■ stampede took place on: the part of press representatives and'the publio—with the exception of one ratepayer, who Btill retained his • seat, • Presently the attention of the Mayor was to the presenco-of "strangers' in thJßk House." His Worship,; thereupon, pubjHF on'hiß.blandest.siiiilei. and the solitary occupant, of the' "public"' benches informed him'that; while: the Council felt with pride and pleasure in • their deliberations being listened.|bby citizens, still- it was'incumbent 'that tEe- proceedings in - Comurittee-sliould •be conducted in-private, .'/The,solitary one seemed to accept. this ,as -an in. disputed fact,'. but-|bowod no signs of departure. ' Anxiety ami alarm spread ovei";the;featuvea. of- tlie City Fathers, A whisperer-council of wirAtook place, with, the .result that the Oijy : Jlngineor as the inbst muscular and also as the .best" exponent -<)f tho art of self defence) wMinstrucffed to reconoitre, but not to' ''attack, 1 Tho dreadful suspicion that. ■ th& sirangerwas the eoibpdificationof an ever-to-be-preseiifc incubus .of claim in conneclionwith the Aro reclamation (a wag suggested) it might be the ; *•* public -rover-. draught") or else the persbuiSed'Hdrbor Board question doomed to hauntQtheok. till the Bill was settled. ; The' City**''. Engineer approached the Lonely Man, in appropriate Ring attitude and warilyadvancing and retreating in approved style, so as not to give the enemy an . advantage. And still that citizen remaiued seated, sternly impassive, immovable. Then closer inspection revealed the fact that be slept, and this was duly reported. "Poorman," said Councillor Young,.as ho'screwed up a pellet of blotting paper, " our eloquence has boeu too muchfor him I" and then the pellet sped on its! mission with unerring aim,.alighting on the Solitary Man's proboscis with gentlo but persuasive force. .; He woke, took in the situation and left, 1 remarking that he had had a dreadful nightmare, He had dreamed that he waß being elected, against his will, to a soat in the City Council—Press.