ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1924, 4 November 1884, Page 4

ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

• > Theri has been an extraordinary vacancy in the City Council, caused by the lestgnation of Mr John Waymouth, one of the ropiesentatives of the South Ward The reason thereof was the ltjoction of a resolution moved by him, having for its bbject the chaining of certain woik done in tlio vSonth Ward, at a cost, of about £2000, to pLiier.il revenue, instead of in.ikmg it a charge ou the sum allocated to the Waul as its pi oportion of the mumcipil loan i usi'tl last year. Mi AVaj mouth contended that this com.se shovild be pursued because of the on hanccd value given to the city endowments, by that expenditure. However, seeing that the expense Mas incurred for the benefit of the city in general and the South Ward in particular, the majoiity of the councillors voted against the motion, which \va3 negatived by fifteen votes to four. The " llciald " contained a sub-leader, eulogising Mr Way mouth and stating his view of the matter, which Mas evidently inspired by that gentleman. It gave him credit for having acted very propeily in the inteiestb of the ratepayers of tin* South Ward and contended that he bad acted piopeily in resigning his seat. "While giving him every credit for believing that he acted rightly m bunging foi waul his motion ami tiying to get it cariied, I cannot help thinking that lie acted \eiy childishly in tendering his resignation. When he found that he had been defeated, he said that he would lesign his seat, sat down, wiotc out his lesigliation, handed it to the Major, and left the Council Chamber, slamming the door after him, giving vent to a wooden oath, as someone aptly descubed his action. His behaviour was not that of a man aflii miug a principle, but that of a little child, who, because his playfellows refused to let him have his own way, says " then I don't nlav you any moie." However, Mr Way mo nth has been re-elected without opposition, so it is to be hoped that he will go back to the council a wi&ei man. 3- * •* Talking about the City Council leminds me of a little stoiy I lieaid about ono of the officials the other day. You may, pci haps, know that certain of our local aristocracy (our would lie aiistoctacy ib the moie coiroct tt mi) whoaie pui nutted to piay tennis on the lawn of Go\ei!i ment House, have been cutting down the baul lawn Xot conk nt w ith cutting and hacking public pioperty foi then own amusement, someone ot thun conceived the biilliant idea of getting the l.iwn l oiled at the expense of the city. Accoulingly, application was made to one of the cuj oltiuah foi lh<; use of the large lollcr used on tlie ciicket giouud in the Domain, \sincli is now mult l the contiol of the City Council. lie at once acceded to tlu ic(juest and .sent .1 number of men up to the l">iitinu to bung down the io!l"> ifiaige to s iy, the hi.iii appOiiiteJ I , the cou.io I t) look aftci tl.e onekiA L.Oiind failed to see the* n.attt l in the a line li »ht, and actually i chimed to allow the tolkr to b • lemovul. lie abated that, as the tollui ua-> in his chaigt , he wo.ihl not allow it to hu le moved, e\picss:ug In- be!i< 'f that it was beltei to ictain the r.illoi in the Domain icn tho puipo^e of I'cepin^' the couucl's piopeity theio m fiood ot>loi than ti lit it b>- lemoved to Government Hoti'-e to boused on a lawn which docs not belong to the Council. The consequence was that the gang of men sent up to get tlie loller hid to rotuin ompty-luiuded. # Uy-thc bye, I wonder how long (io ■v eminent House is to be kept up simply foi tin 1 use of the Uovouioi, who is not at all likely to use it for moie than one oi two months in each jcai, if tor so long. It is about, the only thing th.it is left to lcinind us that Auckland was once the capital of the colony, and, as it is quite ooi tain th.it it will nevei again be the capital, I think it is time the Govern ment House v. as put to some piactioal use. There is j,'i cat need for a building for the Auckland University College, ■which is now eanying on its woik under gieat difficulties in two or tin co unsuit abb buildings, one of which — the Admiralty House —is oi en pied only on suffeiii'iee. (!o\cinn;ent House might, at a sirall cost, bo turned into ;i Unh msity College, ami the public could then be allowed the use of its beautiful gioundo eveiy day, in stead of as at pie -.out, on only thiee. d.ij s ol the week, the othei da>s being held sacred for the hi>»elit of the lmmbcis of the Koi tl.ci n Club, v !io play 1 iw u tennis there. In this way the building and gionnds wmild he put to 'omo piaftital use.. Asl have siid, tl'fiu h not the slightest pioh,ibiht> of Auckland a^ain becoming the eipital, which I do not think is any gi( it lots to us, foi the e\ penditurc of oui Ginemois is never \eiy lavish, and they aie ueuiiilly attended by a number o' li uig^r-. on, w ho have no mean", and simply l'( t lMto <le.Ut ill ovei the place. A1?A 1 ? an instance of this I may mention tint one of out photo..'i.iph | 'is has his books oimmented with the name of a h.mgei on of a furmei (!<>v einor, who •went away owing him upw.ndi of i4O foi pHotogiaj'lu No l we do not want Auckland to become the capital ."gain, and if wo did want it we would not get it, so it ib useli"-s keeping up (Jovemment House as such, and the sooner it is handed over to the Univeisity Council the better. /■ -i Tawhiao has letuincd to his native land, and has been on show hero for tl o last week or so It was a sight for gods and men to see him diivmg up Qtucnbtreet, wcaiin" the goiyeous wai pant of a fJiand M.U.D. (1 am not sine whether tliose are the cornet letter) (4ood Templar, [o was lathci diffeicnt fiom thu war pnint ho used to wear in the olden days when he n'.is a sweet child of natuii 1 , and eousideied the flesh of anothei sweet child of nature the ITIO-.L dclinhtful /' ' hm obt unable, excepting, of com a slice of loast. missionaiy. Ye" the missionaius wlio came out ' • << in the eaily da^s well deserved t! i ,i<^hest piaisc that could pos'-ibl 1 . bu »i\en them for then con snnnnale bia^ery and self devotion in commir out to an niiMionn country in habited by blood thi l st> sa\nges, and, thoiigh tlicro wci" doiibtlcs a few of them who cndeavouicd to " m«ko the best of both wo- Ids, ' by baying I wid at a udionloiicly small cost, the m.i]outy of them devoted all then eneigics to the, woi k they had come out toacoouiplish — theconversion of the heathen. However, to return to Tawhiao. He seems to have enjoyed his tiip, to have pamed a coiiaidei able amount of infoimatiou and to have had only oneseiious disappoint-mtnt--he did not see the Q.icen I think that tins is a «i eat pity, for I feel .sure that he would have been delighted with Her Majesty's \ery ample charms ; so much &o that I belie* c he would have wished to hum/ her to ?s T ew Zealand with him. Pei haps il was on account of the fear lest the pleadings of the dusky king, uttcied in the musical language cilled "Italian of the South Pacific," might induce the Queen to leave the old country foi the new, that the inteiview did not take place. How ever, with this one exception, the tiip seems to have been a great succe^*, and Tawhiao has learned, as has Mr. John Waymouth, that he cannot get everything he wants. * * •itPoor dear Sir George Grey has had a sad disappointme t, and he, like Mr Waymonth, takes disappointments badly. He put the present Ministiy into office, indulging the fond hope that he would he the " power behind the thiono," that he would be able to make them do tilings as he wished, and that if they did not do so he could tim them out of oih'ce again, He finds, however, that he is like tlie man with the steam leg. lie thought that, when he got his steam leg on, he would be able to go wheiever he pleased, but he found that the steam leg was stronger than he, and thpt he ran away with him. The diffcrenoe between the Stout-Vogel

Government ami the sfcearn leg, as far as Sir George Grey is concerned, ia that they have run away, not with him,, but fiotn him. Ho thought that he wns going to muko ft oat's paw of Vogel, but limb to. ljis disgust that VogeL had made .1 eatV pau 'of him. The natural convcquuncO is that he is disappointed.^ 1 am not, for it- is jn^fc w hat I ovpcctetl^ He d< liheiiitcly taciifieud tin* interests of AuJJ.iud and h.indud US' over to Canterbury and Otago, that he might l>c enabled to c.iiry out hh o\\n\ie\vs, and now ho finds that lie has °old hib bntniight, oi lather our hiithught, nnd li.is Dol oven a mess of polt.ig'j foi it. 'J'ho Moibt. of it \b that \\u aic thu lo'-ci*, and not he. It ib a mallei of very little )in[>oi I.dhc to us lli.it ho ia unable- to oairy some of bis pclf.uh thiougli the lloiibu, but it is a, veiy sciiou'3 inattei for us that, of tiie loan of a million and a half ■which is to be i.-iiseil, and of the inteiebt of which we will havr to pay our sh.uc, v>c me to get almost nothing. It uould have been far bettci for us if, instead of allowing !Sn (icotge (iiej to l)e letuined for City East without opposition, we had elected an honest chimney-sweep. However, it is to be hoped tlwit we will leain wisdom by pxpeiienee and, when next we hive an oppoitiuuty of {loiug to the ballot-box, i etui n a man who will consider the inteiests of Auckland of mote importance than even the Abolition of Juries. Wo can manage to e\ish whether Jiuies are or are not abolished, but it is a question Inw long we can continue to pay interest on loans expended in the Middle Inland. St. MiiMiO.

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