"AS YOU WERE."

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 118, 17 November 1881, Page 2

"AS YOU WERE."

+ TO THK EDITOR OF THB EVENING POST. Sib. — Ifc seems his Worship the Mayor thinks it is much the best to be " Ab yon were," both as regards hia own salary as Mayor and the still larger one given to the amateur aide-de-camp, the Town Clerk, the v&lne of whose services have been publicly compared to that of a freezing machine at tho North Pole. Doe 3 his Worship think that any one endowed with common sense is weak enough to believe there are not many respectable and able lawyers in Weliington who would be giad.for a very moderate salary, to t»ke the appointment oE Town Clerk, if only for the sake of increasing their connection ? If such ia{ the case ; Wellington i 3 almost the only city in the Butish dominions ble3t with such a scarcity of lawyers. Look at the thousands of the ratepayers' money depending on the "glorious uncertainty of the law" in the law suit 3 now pending, and the bill of costs a certain very astute lawyer will present. Tn.e Mayor'B friends, the working men. are already driven beyond the pale of city rates, to their great inconvenience. To be sure there is the oiedit he takes for the Te Aro reoiimation, which is to result in a gain to the city of I am not sore if I have not omitted a cipher or two, but even withont any omission of that sort, the promise has never been equalled since the good old promise " when the moon is made of green cheese, we shall have a large slice," and both promises are equally likely to come true. I am, &c, Anti-Humbd*. Wellington, 10th November,|lBBl.