The Daily Telegraph FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1882.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3562, 8 December 1882, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1882.

The Hawke's Bay Herald on Borough officials and municipal retrenchment: — September 29. December 8. With Crs. Lee and If it had been Margoliouth, vro fear found that the rcducthat the effect (of tho tiona in the staff preresolutions of Sep- vented the proper tember 28) will be performance of all a crippling of the necessary duties, it boi'ough administra- would have been time tion, and that it will to make any necessary be impossible to get irodifications. We the work satisfac- object, too, to the torily performed un- manner in which the der the combination reconsideration of the of offices agreed upon, subject "was intro- * * The movers duced. Two months —the fathers of the elapsed since the pasmotions —(the origi- sing of the resolution nal notices of motion) without any hint of abandoned their off- reconsideration. But spring in the most it became known that hasty and unnatural O. Wall would be manner, and adopted absent from Wednesa number of bant- day's meeting - , and lings, which, it is an endeavor was commonly reported, made to undo all the ownedCr. McDougall work that had been as their progenitor. done by taking a mean advantage of his absence. Things have come to a pretty pass when such important municipal matters as this are settled by trickery. The above inconsistencies, we imagine, are due to the acceptance by our contemporary of contributed articles. Whatever the cause, not the slightest weight can attach to opinions that emulate a weathercock on a gusty day.