THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BOROUGH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2445, 13 March 1888, Page 2

THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BOROUGH.

TO THE KDITUK. Silt,— The question i>f the dissolution of the borough is now attracting considerable attention. Before the matter is settled, I should lilce to see a more, decided expression ul'opinion than those, of "Tangata Tika, , ' '■Nathan," and W. N. Searanoko, who seem to deal wholly in personalities. It is very easy for "Tangata Tika" to call in question the uamuof Mr Searancke, as the hist signature on the petition, but if "Tatigata Tika" is tlie man everybody suppo.iCJ him to be, Mr Searancke will compare favourably with him. Assertions an; constantly being made that Hamilton East has had its due share of expenditure out of l"th loan and rates, but until the people of Hamilton East see somo better return for money expended than the Hamilton East Baths, and until they see that thero is willingness on the part of the Wast side councillors to do justice to both sides, thero will always be an outcry for separation, good feeling is not likely to be engendered, especially when Tangata Tika calls the East side residents, who signed the petition in good faith, a " discontented lot whose influence is on the vane, "without a of common sense, in their composition," and who wish to avoid the payment of their just debts by " breeding serpents," that ought to bo "strangled in their infancy." The term "carpet baggers'' has been used throughout this correspondence I think, rather foolishly, in the first instance, and a correspondent signing himself " Nathan" has attempted to define the term, but I think without success. Has any phrenologist ever explained Nathan's head ? I suppose he is like a would-be politician not long ago, " acting on his own chart," and considers himself mentally capable of describing anything. But there is a species of carpet-baggers not described by " Nathan," who, by dint of impudence thrust himself into a position of trust, solely with a view to hi;s own benefit. Sir Julius Vogel set the example, and ranks now as the premier carpet-bagger of New Zealand, and his example has permeated through all the grades of local self-govern-ment. Instead of Tiiugata Tika championing the council by slinging insulting epithets, if ho published a detailed statement of oxpcndituro for the past three years on both sides of the river, it could be analysed to show how far thii results are commensurate with the expenditure on the East aide.—l am, sir, yours ifcc. PltOlliniTlON*.