A Few Plain Truths.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2996, 6 September 1888, Page 2

A Few Plain Truths.

■■■■V/^,-; ; ;;(to.jto'Bfiloi.);.-: , ' : , Sib.—lread ia the Star of September 8, that "TheMastertonßorough "Council, after spreading its wings "for a season, 'and increasing its "overdraft, and soaring in the ''gaseous atinosphere|to the general '! grief of ratepayers, is reduced to its '! original .dimensions,". •Now,Bir, who isto blame for it .all? .If,the ratepayers .do not know, I will tell them :!■■ It is Eenall, flogg' and Co. The Gas question, was brought before MCouncjT^ ype.ajid Ba^S,' there nn'ghlhayejwli & ';. twij- more Councillors Hi fdvoifjpf it !;,>but;when it:was;':put ; alwajs-lbskOT^^ in'eljpiAnfrswM|f^

md : befor the;BorMgh| Mid peraiiaded;- them-- to: vOte. ; fe CounciTby/ the wlio;-iu»; how crying ajgaiiiat it,Vaiid; blaming the Council;'"lbopeibe electors will renieruber. tliis on the day of the poll i As to the; division of the ißdrough into Wards. Hasthe Star forgotten so.soon that the man who did : it against-the wishes of tiie;Counoil was Mr Kenall ? Now, is .it fair* of the Editor of the, Star to blame the ; . Councillors for it ? ,:The increased rates on account of Gas are due to Renal), Hogg & Co., and the big overdraft is owing to the Gas and the diyision./.'of the .Borough. T trust the electors will look to this on; the day of the eleotion, and not ypte.for men that.will turn any; way! .'to -suit their own ends. The Editor of;.the Star says the Councillors have failed to establish the respect' of the Bur-' gesses, „' Now;-suV:there .'are.■plenty iof meu;in that'^Couiioil' three more-times the respect of the. burgesseg'thaii the Editor of the Star has, ! or!ever will-have.; Burgesses? bewew of the shake in the ;grasS I Burgesses,beware ofßenall's water scheme 1 Mr-Eenallis wideawake; give him the power, and you .will see your rates spent ft bringing thewater to Eenall's nnl. Mr MaU admitted

to the committee appointed, to inspect his water scheme and. dam: that the bringing of thewaterdbwn wasnothing, but says he'■:*'! the.-dam;' that is where. the devil; of it is; there will have to be something donehere." Now burgesses beware,' if'you let Benall and Hogg get urtheywill soon spend £4OO or J6OO in water, and then .sir, you are at Mr Eenall's meroy; if he does not get his own way he will threaten to'put down the sluice and tunv the water down its present course. The Editor of the

Star says there nas.been, a large culvert put in Dixon-street where there ia no water and no culvert wanted.

Now, sir, this, is just like him,'lie 1 talks about anything and everything i he knows nothing at all about, but ' you had better forgive linn, for what i he called black six months ago he 1 calls to day white, helms such a bad i memory. It is not very long since i he saw, and everyone about Master- i ton saw more water going down that '. creek than even the present culvert I would carry ,off. Now burgesses, i give, tins matter your most earnest i consideration before you vote for the men you think best. Do not let the : Star lead you but not like men and vote for the best men. I hope hone : of the present councillors that can avoid it .will show the white feather,, but go before the electors and" fight it out like men, lam very sorry to retire from this contest at this critical time, but' owing to the state of my health I must have a spell. lam suffering from asthma and other affections of the lungs, and niy medi.:' cal adviser says I. must givo'up_ all out of door flight work, or I might one of these days take a quiet trip to another world, ■ ■ - .. ' lam.&c, ■]-■■■ B. E, Chamberlain. .