MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 177, 21 April 1908, Page 9

MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS- " IFS " AND "BUTS " - Mr. Hislop has roturnqd to tho question of .tho nflt/tramway profit for the/year, and his vTCmarfable Aiscalculation,''made less than;a' ■week boforo.tho close of tho year; as to \Vhat ; that ./profit would be.. His: method, as on a previous,.occasion, has been to rush along to our evening contemporary with'a quantity of figures, .which, in.effect,'ho states completely . annihilate'tho contentions of Tns Dominion, and our. ovening contemporary, which is sup'pufelisuea , .those; figUresj' and .carefully - omits to' publish ..our/,,refutations;:thereof., :• Why does : Mr. . Hislop neglect to answer our'' exposure of his blunder m the columns in which the oxposuro nas made? And why did tho " Post publish his ; latest'letter referring "to our criticism of several days ago, seeing that"it did not publish: the ,'critioism'referred to.--, :-i There is really nothing new in Mr. Hislop's latestUetter-f-it 'is; an evasion, and, a clumsy, ono.that'is-easily; exposed.'; It is not worth while ;reviewmg : the .whojeposition'again.;. The, simple facts are:— , ' ; ' !- v . (1) iTiiatpwith' oleveii7?n6hths ! ; jetyirris;- in ■ hand .to, guide him, and -with'-three .' weeks of tho remaining month gone; Mr. Hislop cor: rectecl a'former'.estimate, and stated' that {ho' ; net profit .'for/the yearoai'the tramways would : added:;; "This will .beVquitSßealised;".''j.jVhen he made that estimate/;loss: than'; one) week's .returns had yet-VpA'oo'melin,. and ! : "h6-'knew,-that the' net prorit;for;.eleyeh',m62itliS'had been £5323. ~ ■ : ;woofully/wrrag" iii;;liis estimated ofwHatjth'e' 'finalmonth of .the],year would yield,-',the total;net profit for the year being £5563. - ' •

.. Being proved,- wrong, Mr. Hislop. falls back' on-the;fact' that .the Brooklyn-accident occurred ! during tho year,;and cost the city , £832, that £861.. was paid for band instruments, that there was an expenditure during March of £645 on-.umforms, tickets, etc., and ho- lumps .these. amounts together, and says :that i." if.the;total,.was added to the,.profit realised it wo-uld bring . that very. liear. to his- estimate. : /.What >on earth have these items, to do.with, Mr. Hislopls estimato made just on tho.close of the year, with tho returns ' f°r'at,least;.even',months' before, him? --..'He; knew; when ho -made his estimate, the cost:of ■ th;o';;Brooklyn been .published. aganj-and, agairt;Ho knew, or should, havo known,, of;-the. other -items. But what- a farce'- it. is; t-o' pretend that- because - the. suc-in-1 :curred,'ph:::',uniforms,'v;tick^ not :be charged against tho year .in which the e.xpenditure^ccurred.,., -'\\ 7 hat of tho'.uniforins, ; for'ward.'for'use.at .the ■beginning-of.the:precoding year?', Mr. Hislop's " ifs "> and '' buts ". are becoming wearisome. His stetement that this' paper, ■" deliberately ,ignored.the special'expenditure during, the. .year not only,,has no bearing, on the point ;at issue, .but is .absolutely-wrong. - ; We , exposed;,om a '.previous -occasion'tiie fact that /he -knew.^whenjniakirigi'liisCmisleading estK • mate.;.tho. : dost .-.to, the- ,city,' of - ■ the -Brooklyn: .^id.ent,i4Mr., Hislop.may.twist and he will, but he cannot escape tho fact'that •the net y profit■ on tho ,:tramivays,. was ■ '£5568, and-that, despite ,his .boasted close aoquaint- : anc'e;-.with-the : tramways'management'and the' affairs of the city- genorally,: ho' told the publio less than, one week beforo the. close of the year, that that profit would be from. £7500 to ,£BOOO. ,The matter,is of value, not beeauso : it -was, injurious in, any way to the city,- but as illustrating ■ tho. extent to which Mr- Hisjop s,,.".business judgment," of which we' hear • so much,.is .worthy;of..acceptance."!

: Mr., : A:itkon will address, n public meeting' and deliver his policy. speech m the Concert R00m;,,-Town ! Hall, .this:-;evening/('at 8 ;O clock.:tv;:/ ; i: Hislopwill , address'- a*-meeting of i citizens •, 'at to-', I - Hjslop will meet tho ladios of/Vogeltown to-day at tho store, at 3 p n\ « s f ,lhc r Aitics)lJTGpoHs .that tho number' of persons entitled to vote:at tho Wellington Mayoral election--2? v 13 -5,682,, .as compared with J1j162 last icar,, ; No fewer than 8984 names pasfc.few- weeks-*