ON THE LOOK-OUT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 613, 30 January 1879, Page 2

ON THE LOOK-OUT.

To the Editor of the Evening Herald. Sib : I' feel quite down-hearted this morning. I thought I had such a nice little thing on m the Council, but unfortunately my little game has been spoilt by some far-seeing and clever buffoon, whose effusion m your issue of yesterday has quite exposed my rascality. I am sure my brother Councillors and townsmen will acknowledge m a befitting manner the services rendered by this i buffoon for so quickly exposing to them

my little dodge. It is unfortunate, Sir, that he did not get your permission to put his real name or his norn de plume at the bottom of his effusion. No doubt 1 his bashfidness had a good deal to do with it. He has come before the public under so many different names that he could not find one that he would not be known under, so I have had to give him one that lie 7 ms often had. This buffoon refers to. me as a beerman, now I am very much mistaken if he has not had more of my beer (and Hennessy's too) than I ought to let him have. However, Sir, the insinuations of this clever nondescript will not deter me from trying to push nrjr motion through. There are several engineers, surveyors, and others m the district who have been over the country, and know its watersheds, who, for a consideration that would likely pay for any expense they may incur, would give us the benefit of their knowledge and skill m laying a scheme before the Council that may be a saving to the borough, and come within its means. A water-supply for Gisborne is a very important undertaking, and I do not think it judicious for us to rush into or wed ourselves to any particular scheme until we have exhausted the means of procuring a better. — Yours, &c, Alfred Walker.