COUNCILLOR ELLIS AND THE NELSON CREEK BRIDGE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3310, 27 March 1879, Page 2

COUNCILLOR ELLIS AND THE NELSON CREEK BRIDGE.

[to the editor.] Sir, — In a paragraph in your last weekly issue I find what purports to be a statement made by Cr Ellis during the debate in the Council on the Nelson Creek Bridge question. Mr Ellis is reported to hve said — 1. That the resolutions passed at the public meeting (held at Nelson Creek) in re the bridge site were not an. expression of public opinion ; 2. That these meetings were got up by the defeated candidate through spite ; 3. That the defeated candidate was now op- j posing the very work which he had made his election cry. M With .regard to the first statement I have only to say that I believe the resolutions to be an expression of public opinion. If Cr Ellis thought different it would have been more manly to have said so at the meeting. In reference to the other portions of the statement I am sorry that 1 must give them a direct denial. Mr Ellis must know that I have not got up any meeting concerning County matters since his election. I was a party to the meeting called i for the purpose of asking him why he had not kept his promise about the Try- Again road (no other), and he must also know that it was himself, by order of the County Chairman, who got up the agitation concerning the bridge site. Mr Ellis is reported to have said that everybody in the district knew it was my doing. He, for one, knew different, as his name, with C.C. affixed to it, was stuck at the bottom of the notices calling the meetings. As to my opposing works, the motion placed before the meeting by me and carried, of which Mr. Ellis was supplied with copies, did not claim to : oppose or advocate anything, simply wishing to let things alone, and asking the Council to do likewise, giving as a plain simple reason that the meeting had little faith in the Council and less in its Chairman. Mr Ellis, being present at the meeting, knows also full well that it was , not me or any of my supporters who introduced the motion for the stoppage of the works on Try-Again road. Sir, it is to be hoped that Mr Ellis will be able to clear himself in this matter, as it is most humiliating to the Riding as a whole to find its representative making such an ass of himself by standing up in the Council and stating that which is not the truth. ! I am, &c, J. M. MORRIS; Nelson Creek, March 22, 1879.