A Corporation Deadlock.
|Bt Telegraph. I [united press aBBociation.l Oamaru, This Dat. A deadlock has takeniplace in the Borough Council. At the last faceting the question of the Mayor's honorarium was considered, but the councillors at that meeting were unable to agree, and decided to take tho sense of the meeting by a kind of ballot. After ascertaining the feeling of the meeting, it was resolved that the honorarium be .£5O, this being a reduction of JBSO on the previous Mayor's honorarium. At the meeting last night the Mayor refused to allow the minutes of the last meeting to bo confirmed, Baying that as the method by whioh the amount of the honorarium was fixed was illegal, the minutes were also illegal. He refused tb acoopt a resolution on the subject, and four of the Councillors leaving the room, there was no quorum present, and the meeting broke up. The Mayor holds that the amount of the honorarium was fixed by ballot and is illegal, and several of the Councillors hold that the unanimous resolution of tho Council was perfectly legal.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 January 1889, Page 2
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181A Corporation Deadlock. Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 4 January 1889, Page 2
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