Correspondence.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 907, 6 May 1891, Page 2

Correspondence.

. l ;, f . IJ .«^ -^ (We wish it to be distinctly understood ..-.^6 ""yOpt^ hold ourselves responsible ■■■?F ( r''( t 7 e rl > P' n '^ M 5 r sNte<lJby our oor * J reßponaeßt«.)-'ii- '. u'b. VV /I / : . AWKWARD HITCH. Siftj—Yofcr' leftist in' SiSturdaf s issne tfiider the 1 ajbota' taring ' ahoW pretty bttfeithe wn^.of , befog^e-lin ljjs home -j fcbei Wandon.';. Ifcippeawftoi me, too, the hinge the argament lumswi-is Weak indeed.;; If it Has f heeh' tHe^ti^om hifchento for' t!Hn ; e]ect6r9 :ft rif -S^tiUibridge Towh' DisJMd't & vo^'for^^^Wfttes fp^njng the.EH^raere^.l^cenpjhV Committee, then,., (ho ,pr;y e ileg^',fjd;.:?pte for sqch ;opndi<J *fc»s is^ . ; l aesuim^ jeVal, IF I«m right m, this assamption, how can the exorcise of the prior paVt o! the elector*] privilege, norooly;' nomination of a Wjddid^Vmvftltdate an election? It mm fo me tb&t sqib& rt

<c civic fathers'* m deciding to elect a Committee for the Town district was, m part, a rose, and chiefly, if not altogether an after thought- : . . As the result of such ruse, several of-; the Town electors voted; others, I hear, did not. - This, of course, did alter* the state of poll, but will thaD fact be a sufficient plea for upsetting the election ? I trow not. '> It is just possible 7 that ; th'e «t?oVe'--said " civic fathers," having delayed too long, for this, year at any rate, \nVtaking the^necessary preliminary; stsps, t j& : e^ec£ a Licensing Committee for their, -district, "will get a practical -reminder of the old time echo of "too late, too late,! ye can not enter now'. t; ' "■" , ■■'■"■' .' ;v ;M : ■ " : ''-I am'j'^ir'^etcy^.^ :>f>:>r ' - ■■"■"■ ■':"''.•■'. W^?-v £OUB correspondent- misses. .theoDiain point of our argument. .Our contention •wa», and is, that if the Southbridge Town District wasi endowed with all To.w.n'i District Eights at the time, at its proclamation, it has a clear ,ti lie ta\asßUin.e; the exercise of those, rights^Wiben ..it .chooses. Having assumed them, .it. roniQvea: the town out Qfithe EllesuiefceVdistrict, for election purposes.,, Henoe the nomination referred; , to \,yas mfbrmol. Negjpct to exercise the right .at ejections does not, we ap'prenend, annul it. Ed. GUABDI4N.] ; ■:<■• i r.'UO :?

„An .-old en'cplar.. }38p?d!, ; from! the ; Colonial SecreteryVoffice a^^uck)and, 'and dated October lS55y-ißj:iji9tr.\^ctivp i^, not amusing.' EF&re : it .is::,— J] am ijeeired by' Bis.ExcellSncjr'tbe Governor , to bring to ypur ; jaotice"a.pubj^ct v t9' which be attaches great imp^rtarice.'viz, that of impressing on all persons belonging; to yom:;De{iar(m,ent.,. from the liiglieat to the lowest, including messengers; the necessity of treating witli the utmost civility and ftttenubn all people; who may have husiness to transncfc; w^th .them Thi9 is the more necessary ...in. offices Vfbere Natives or Kniigranfs of th«h.urnbler ciasses lesort for information, and ignorance , or tediousness on : thenpart is' not to be considered; any for short replies and scant attentten te tbm ystib I am directs tv n