PEACHES AND WHISKY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4739, 13 December 1886, Page 4

PEACHES AND WHISKY.

LIVELY DISCUSSION. In reference to the dispute about the whisky and peaches, an account for which I the auditor refused to pass, the following ' is a diacusaion which took place in the Dunedin City Council on the subject : — Cr Murray did nob think the matter had been fairly pub before the public. He believed that the refreshments had been provided for a band which had been for several consecutive Saturdays discoursing delightful music. It was not right to make so much capital out of such a paltry amount so as to have a hit at a man who was out of the Council and unable to reply for himself. That the matter should be brought up on two occasions was in his oyea positively contemptible. It was a matter of some £3 14s, and one correspondent in the daily papers magnified it into £22. He thought it would be better that the matter should be relegated to oblivion, and that the Mayor should not make this second attempt before he left the chair. — The Mayor (excitedly) : I rise to a point of order. I tell you plainly that I will not allow you to make such remarks. Neither myself nor the town clerk has had anything to do with this coming before the Council. The Committee and the Council ordered that letter to be sent to Mr Robin. The lotter was sent to Mr Robin, and his answer is brought here now to be answered. lam not going to cloak Mr Robin, or you, or anybody else. If you think so much of it put your hand in your pocket and pay the accounts. (Applause from the public.) That is the only way. I believe you ate and drank until you could hardly walk home. (Great laughter.)— Cr Murray (warmly) : I will not suffer wilful and deliberate lies to be perpetuated by the biggest man that ever breathed, and he knows it. Ido not believe if, was whisky at all. I believe it was beer ; and the Mayor takes this opportunity of disgracing an honorable position by saying what he knows is not true. There are i 2 men here to one, and 1 ask these men if they over, during a long lifetime of 76 years, saw me the worse for liquor. — The Mayor : I never said you was. Cr Murray : I don't speak vauntingly, but I say this for the sake of truth. Let truth prevail and the whole of these scandalisers be sent to the position to which they are fitted. The Mayor : Will you sit down ? Cr Murray continuing, said that he was charged by the Mayor with maligning the chair. Let the Mayor not himself dishonor the chair, and he (Cr Murray) would not. He hoped that the fair facts would be put before the public He did not like the Mayor's contemptible way of magnifying little weaknesses. He wanted to lot the truth prevail, and he trusted that, as long as he lived, he would live without a solitary charge against him such as that formulated by the Mayor, who, he hoped, would take it back, sleep over ifc, and withdraw it. The Mayor : If you take it in that way, Cr Murray, I will ■withdraw it. I don'c mean to say you were tipsy.— (Laughter.) I said you ate and drank till you could not walk home. Cr Sinclair expressed his regret that such feeling was shown, but he thought that Cr Murray had brought it on himself. Tb. B question was, who was to pay '! Cr Mi it. ray : The Mayor is to pay. What doea he get his money for ?— (Laughter) After some further discussion the question was allowed to stand over, but not before the Mayor chimed in, " There is no use crying over spilt milk. The affair was brought up with no ill feeling to anyone. The Finance Committee knew all about it. Things have to go through their proper forms. The late Mayor and 1 both wear the blue ribbon, and I am not going to disgrace it by paying for whisky for nobody."—(Great laughter.) It is Worth a Trial.—" I was troublod for many years with kidney complaint gravel, &c, my blood became thin, I was dull and inactive, could hardly crawl p.bout and was an old worn-out man all ov^r and could get nothing to help me un^l I got American Co.'s Hop Bitters, and now my blood and kidneys are all right, and now I am as active as a man of thirty, although I am seventy-two, and I have r 4 o doubt it will do as well for others of my age. It is worth the trial."— (Father.) Notice. Post Card Proof. Salisbury, Term., April 4, 1883 Urcirrs :— I was afflicted with serious Kidneyand Urinary trouble for twelve years After trying all the doctors and patent medicines I could hear of, I used two bottles of Hop Bitters and am perfectly cured. B. F. BOOTH. Washington, D.C., April 3, 1883. 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