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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2885, 28 April 1888, Page 2

Masterton Town Lands Trust meeting, No. 3, is convened for Monday evening next. It is necessary to number these re-unions, because tliey are Mowing one another with startling rapidity, and there is what Shakespeare terms a "damnable iteration" about them, which may occasion some of them to lose their identity, unless tliey are properly labelled. No. 1 meeting was, it will be remembered, the compound annual meeting; No. i was a hugger-mugger kind of gathering, • convened in a mysterious manner; and No. 3 is of the orthodox type, and called in an official or semi-official manner, We can hardly venture to hope, however, that No. 3 will end the series; indeed, there is every prospect of a sort of fortnightly free-and-easy, on the unconsolidated bill topic, throughout the winter, if the highly intelligent method, hitherto adopted in dealing with it, is to be pursued. There was one little point which No. 1 meeting might be supposed to have absolutely determined, when it was arranged unanimously that a certain interpolation in the Bill, consisting of the simple word" primary" should be excised. To our surprise at meeting No. 3 another interpolation is to •bo introduced, still more absurd and ridiculous than the first one. Should those residents who took the trouble to attend meeting No, 1 be present at meeting No. 3 to object to tho second interpolation, it is extremely probable that the inspired Bill-mongers, who manufacture the crudities which are from time to time imported into the measure, will introduce a third interpolation, and, if that is knocked on the head, a fourth, The simplest plan for those who do not desire to see the original tenor of the Trust varied (to suit, possibly, some game of ducks and drakes, which a certain local association is playing) will be to go direct to Parliament, and point out to tho Legislature that certain people are not quite sane in these parts, and that their proposal to 'vest the Masterton Trust funds general public education, which will no doubt be defined by future lawyers to mean the Education fund of the Colony, is not the dc-sirc .of settlers generally. Of course, if the Town Lands Trustees themselves realize that they are n§t bound" to do anything silly because meeting No. 3,4, 5, or 6 passes a resolution calling upon them to do it, there will be no occasion for the public to inteyene. To expect settlers generally to attend an endless series of Town Lands Trust public msetings would be absurd. It may syit the local association to have such a series; it my contribute towards Mr Eenall's health and ]sppiness to address an unlimited number of such gatherings, but human endurance lias its Jjraits! W.e arc quite willing the uutoiisolidated Bill should be turned outside in and inside out, and when certain eccentric individuals are tired of worrying it, some sensible men can be found either in or out of tho Trust to bury the mangled carcase decently, or to rehabilitate it in some decent and preamble form.