GREYTOWN

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3067, 29 November 1888, Page 2

GREYTOWN

(From Our Own Correspondent);',''

, Jlie election for Mayor on Wbdnesday, 28th November, resulted as fol. •lowsF. H, Wood, 71; Hart TTdy, 88; informal, 2; majority for Wood ' 28.' By this it will be eeon tliat 101 voted. It would appear to tha general reader that ffio foregoing was simply a return of numbers'of particular importance to the outsidH public; but when only a possible 120 could havo voted (all others'' being either defaulters re rates, Biok, absentees, k) it Will at oiice be Bern . that a luoro keenly contested election never occurred in Groytown. The • curious part of the affair is this; Everybody is talking about hard . times, retrenchment, Ac. Mr Udy has,tried his hardest to reduce • expenditure hy lowering , rates, 4c. • It was believed he would have been returned by a big majority, imd yet vide the result. The funny part of the thing is many, for reasons best' known to themselves, are in favor of high rates, and for what? You are of course aware that we are liandicapped with thoprecious Hiver'Bdard rate of the same.-amount as tie Borough rate. Mr Udy has Been ' trying ln's level best to eccuibihise for the. benefit of ratepayers, who; ( less rates, or t'liey would givo'the ex* • Mayor, this opportunity of finishing " the work he had so suo&essfiilly began. "1 "he foregoing reminds me of a queer colloquy - with , a rather,< queer friend to-day. Said he: "Grey town taxpayers are a strange lot."; "How's'' that," says I. "Why," Bays he; they're paradoxical."