BOROUGH COUNCIL AND ITS EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1257, 20 July 1880, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL AND ITS EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.

TO THE EDITOR Sir, — If au imposition was ever attempted to be enacted by any set of men who are supposed to represent the opinions of a Municipality, it was successfully practised on Friday last by the above Council in re purchase of lmd. Some members of that very intelligent body not satisfied wilh the condemnatory discussion of a public meeting-, after a full and impartial hearing, excepting the detained sealed document, resolved to try an extraordinary artifice by convening an extraordinary meeting of that cxtraordi nary Council, at which those very ex traordinary members of that inimitable body, the Mayor, Vialou, and others, came to the extraordinary conclusion, to appeal to the burgesses in an extraordinary manner by poll, to test again by public opinion their extraordiaary conduct — that by this extraordinary means they may be able to catch the unwary burgess and use him as a cloak in any ulterior action they may deem it advisable iv their extraordinary wisdom to pursue. Such vacillation as this, after having committed an act which was supposed to be to the best of tneir judgment in the interests of those they profess to represent, estranges them from those even who would otherwise have looked upon them with common respect- It will not be uninteresting to see by what means these civic jugglers will attempt to maintain a position they have voluntary cut out for themselves. — I am, &c, Eytraoedinary.

Ihe interesting Mdlle. Marie Biere, the heroine of the last cause vvlcbrc (she shot her lover, was tried for her life, and -was duly acquitted), told Dumas the other day that since her release from prison she had received three offers : one from a lady of the Faubourg St. Germain of £8000, provided she would go into a convent ; one from an English journalist (?) of his hand in marriage ; and one from an American showman, of a considerable salary, if she wo aid consent to be exhibited. Dumas advised her to refuse all three offers, and wait. Apropos of the " Great Pro Consol, " Mr. W.L. Rees, lawyer, preacher, author and statesman, is here justj ust now. It seems strange that one who shincb in so many professions should be so short of the "Mauritius" as a Victorian legislator called it. I suppose it is the old story, " Jack of all trades, but master of none- " In spite of receiving such fees as three hundred guineas from a grateful (? great fool) premier, Mr Rees is in a chronic state of impecuniosity, dunned and sued by confiding tradesmen,