PROVINCIAL LETTERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 300, 5 December 1862, Page 5

PROVINCIAL LETTERS.

[£To. 2— continued.] ; THE TOWN BOAKD. {To the Editor of the Daily Tijibs.) Sin, —la orcter to present such information as it contained to your readers on the day; of .the Town Board election, when their attention might be supposed to be more' or less -arrested to the subject, it was necessary to omit from the first' part of this letter several matters of much importance. Ist. The assessment and tho r appeal against it. —The assessment has this year been mado by three gentlemen,' one of- whom waa specially added to the, usual numbar to*, represent'the 'New Identity;" -Whether'in, the .present state, of the" Province, a satisfactory assessment of- the the value bf DunejUn property was practicable or not, certainly the,.one which has just been ma£e has caused unlimited dissatisfaction. - The* right pf appeal, 'the v manner of appeal,' and'the.pK|bable v, result *of the] same*,;are imatters import Mice" just tibw to a large liumbeßof raie^' i

s^peJals^ag^s^pi|sl|||tß^^ £y w^^^ingl^^n^^^p&BL ;i£hM; untii; ? fb)fe^p^n^a^ '^^'Plp^^llSiii^f^sfi ■;^tin3t;-;tlie^c^aiit;;:i{oE'«i^ '"I^^-■ •j!>«*,reii»eay;; ':^ aj^in>t ian^pj^^TChp^n^ ;aSo»^fe^l|^Kov;sany;::^^*of^ ;against/tli^presehfc assossraenf- mustbo^tieli^repV to the;\Gle^|p-^\ev " .^'ey/JSifts.*- ? firft '\se : ; with; the ;cah; ; take; ; nb:^og^izanc^;^thenii;- ;f:-'\:'?t'^-M '": r;■ • V Jl?tror|g|y7re'wnimfnxl m^^liow^atijpayers to^ thc;^nnfe;;(ib;ursel as: rnys^f-^get";|ne sparest member o^the -Board, orithe 'jjoias best to -jpu,;to!inake himself.personally)-acquai^ed with j^u^ and;/ th^, hflture of thrl property ;j»s3e3sed. :Kn:pwledge;;ofjt|tese^ e^fls;- ty^bno of: j S^;Jsw*&; \vill, np d^b^saye'niuih trouble in" the-; ivajr of: evideircetjind''^xplanatipn.: V {From current rnmoars,: qne T^oaltl 'conclude Ttliiit at •■'i 1-?^* Mlf:^h<> ratepaj-ers ofvDuhedin' liad:|pme complaints; to make.; TJxiaierisuch;c[rcmnstances,:: the-sorrows of tliejur^rl during the present ses- : sion of: the^fS^p^c^-Gourt-wiir b3 nothing to those of the; appellants, orofj^lie Board itself. I' .fear rid paternal Goyerameut will step "inwith 10s par 'day ;; .'-.fpr\^thb^'.w_hb''':haye''\th.iM;': i»^'lose their time to save.their money. ;o r ■; ; U C 2Qd.; i When i-began ; to writeyabout the'Towhi B^^ ;Qrdioances r I-; tliought\;the position] in Wfiich thej;'placed^^ the Superintendent relatively to the Boards so-extraordinary, and of .so uiuch importance,; as ;;to ,need;;cco'iisideration ■-'•iii^&'< separate letter.; .Before my letter was-in print you, had called; attentioji^ to- thi3r mattery and to the .yr&nh of a M:iyor or. a recognised head pf theßoard/iu a leading/article: And theiiitteation of the tovyii has evidently in the meantime ■ been dra\yn in the same direction. Most of .the members of our new. Board- are iriorp or less 'pledged to tlieir constituents, £6 endeavour to;obtain for us either aproper Municipal Incorporation, or a; thorough reinpdeliing ]■. of the present Bpard.- The matter will ere Jong ba brought; before public meetings of;the rate payers, arid whatever elseis eff.c(^d,'.tlie.citizens;of I)unedin-may. rest assured that.it only remains with themselves to display their sSieagtlv and their detcrmiiutiei* to enable them,to take into-their own hands the control, of their local affairs. Ijslah.ll therefore refrain , from further remarks; at present, upon an.omalie3>rhieh ; will,lhope^spoa cease to exist. ■ .*--..'';. i -':.' :::■■■■-a .'larn,. : Sir,. Cv.v.>;■.;."•.••. .. ■■;.;.-?v> ;- ;-;i■'.'■';.: '■■ .'■•'■..■-'•■' Yours truly ■"■ ■• ■-?--,•■ ■ ' ;[--i,\ ■■;^;--:':. ■:■:- X, B.