Marlborough Express, Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 18, 1889. THE MAYORAL INSTALLATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXV, Issue 287, 18 December 1889, Page 2

Marlborough Express, Published Every Evening. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 18, 1889. THE MAYORAL INSTALLATION.

To-day the Borough Council have welcomed the coming and sped the parting Mayor, and we have much ' pleasure m offering ■"our hearty welcome to the new occupant of the chair, whose energy and integrity have won for' him this election. That he is fvilly impressed with the magnitude and importance bf the interests entrusted to. his care, we do not dqubt, and we feel pretty certain that his own com. mon- sense, the advice of the Town Clerk, and the admonitibns of the press, will preserve his new Worship from error, We cannot, however, allow • the occasion to pass without placing on record our sense of the high qualities that.distinguish the citizen who has just given place to the new Mayor, and has himself retired into the obscurity of private life as unobtrusively as he entered the pubjic arena. We have seen many public men, but we have seen none more' upright, more conscientious, or more fearless th^n Mr Riley, who baa done his duty because it was his duty, with the most utter indifference \o the opinion of t|io wqrld^ wjtfy a peoiiiiar s\ai](j jrold x and calm }udi2 cl 'enpe to prevailing opinions that were very remarkable. He. leaves behind him a reputation that few popular men are able to achieve, and preserve, the reputation of a.consjstertt, fearless incorruptible man. There will b,e pccas.}o.)js \r\ the future when Councillors c^ens afjkiJ will lqoj>" back with admiration at the' unbending honesty of the late Mayor, 1 and pay a tribute of homage to his absolute fidelity. He has committed (what we at least considered) more than one error of judgment, but he never had to blush for any of his mistakes.' We : aocorcl Mr tyley oi hip retjvorpft^ji, t^g thanks oi |i}i'£' ooiipntip'Hy f6r ftis aitontiqn to" it's interests', 'aiid his self-sacrificing assiduity, and wish him m his private career, such success as industry and probity should always command.