CAPTAIN MCPHERSON AND THE MAYOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2134, 13 March 1886, Page 2

CAPTAIN MCPHERSON AND THE MAYOR.

TO THK EDITOR. Sin,— As a journalist, having some experience of the manner in which public meetings are conducted, will you kindly put a foot-note to thin letter, giving your readers the benefit of your opinion as to whether the mayor was right or wrong in ruling me out of order at the meeting on Tuesday evening. At any meeting which I have attended or read of, and they have been very numerous, a person making a motion or speaking to a motion, or expressing an opinion on a question before the meeting, ha* always, as far a» I know, been permitted to atntn the reasons which had led him to tho conclusion at which he arrived. Tins and no more I began to do on Tuesday evening, when Mr Tippen asked the chairman to rule if I was in order in mentioning an Act of Parliament. His Worship promptly decided I was wrong, and prevented me proceeding. I wish to say as little as possible, but as you wero pro«ent at the meeting, and competent to decide the question, will you kindly answer the one above put, and *o aid "the cause that lacks assistance."— Yours truly, Jas. MoPherson. [It is not a pleasant thing to call in question the ruling of x chairman, hut ;ih the question has been put to us so directly, we are bound to say that in our opinion Capt. McPherson was in the right.— Ed.]