RETRENCHMENT IN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 737, 18 May 1887, Page 4

RETRENCHMENT IN COUNTY COUNCIL.

TO THE EDITOR. SIR, — In reading your Budget I caught sight of aMetter overwhipU, iii bigletteis, was ".County Coudcif "'Retrenchment." 1 thought Paradise had^come at last, after waiting r Jlbnging,- and . vaistiinpc -for years. '« Hope deferred maketh the- heart sick.' A patriot has come to the ' rescue I ' The oounty taxpayers now fear hard times. No more £50 per year and" travelling' expenses, to the, chairman ; no more £4 per week, for the clerk; no, inqie j£lo, ..per annum, for. \he .sanoe ; gentleman added;.; no more holidays and kalf-holidays on full pay; no more, appointing an .overseer iat his own value,. then raise his screw, also adding the inspector of slaughter lioenses, with—more', pay;- no -'more quiet' billets added to salaries; no more £2000' bank overdrafts. What a 'patriot ! What bappineß8 l conferred on the whole community by Patrick Wright. Patrick Wright, thy. patriotic action shall meet with judt rewards All the nations of Taranaki shall meet and join "in the chorus: Glory to Patrick Wright 1 A monument, shall be erected to thy memory, to bo unveiled^on the day of the Queen's Jubilee, with the words in gold Jetters thereon in com--memoration of Patrick Wright,. Cotinty Counoil Retrenchment > Fame. Being. bo overcome with all J had readl was unable' to proceed further, but went off ir^a trance. When my : faculties returned % I tried to ascertain what had been tlie cause of this • trance. Proceeding to read your valuable BuDGET.a nd " C. C. B." still, before me, when lo ! and behold, I found I, ha(l:;beeii writing in vain ; for the retrenchment amounted to dock off ■ thelaboring mam ls..> per day, . but 'nothing about the big wages menmaymentioued. I I had been writing in vain; bnt no,!et the" Jubilee uionnment be erected and the commemoration take place.— l am, &c, , A' Mistaken' Admibeb. '" g IR _In reading Mr. Wright's letter in your paper, he says /'That .if. the roads were let by contract, for which we are paying £27 per week, it would be done better,r If let by contract .210 would keep-tfcem in better repair-besides saving£B64per annum.", .If such is the case, whatever use can our present members be except to squander the rates? That would very easily be accounted for ,aB ?a portion. of the want : of JE2,000 overdraft." Then he points cut, that ••" i£ some of the councillors neglect' the welfare of the County feo as to retain their, ,f riendß. .at abliiirftlwageiMt wiUnotbe f^rgqtte^- 1 qnite agreVtßat contract is best, and would gladly assist Mr. Wright all in. my power to enforce it* 'l would go 1 further even, by calling our members to resign if they cannot attend and Bupport contracting. Mr. McGregor, a new member, brought on a motiorj, but, of course-when *iny thing: of consequence"- is ' brought 'forward' some members aie absent. — I am, &c, H.S.

On going into supply, Mr. Barron will move, i'.Tha^ in ,the opinion of thie House the salary of our future- Governor should not exceed £3500, and the allowance for his. establishment sho.ula ;be limited >• to £1,000 ; the salary of the Premier should no£«xceed £i,OOO, and the salaries of "the otbe^ Cabinet Alinisters^hould not exceed £750 ; the paying Vf travelling allowance to Ministere other, -than actual- -travellings expenses should be discontinued i that house allowances- tb Ministers -and expenditure upon Ministerial residences should be materially reduced ; that the honorarium payable to members of the -Hoiise'of i Representatives should - not exceed £150, and the honorarium payable to members of the Legislative Council should not exeeed£loo." Sir Julius Yogel (says the flawke's $a/ Herald) "proposes" to increase the ad valorem dutießfrom 15 per cent-, to-20 per cent. In the name oE the propnet; fi-^s ! What a Bad decjension for him, and what a. fate for us I He' was to ensure, and we wer« to experience, unexampled prosperity, which when explained bj a Financial Statement made after he has been two years in office turns out to be less money to spend on ourselves and more demanded by the Government. For the rest be proposes to slightly increase the property tax,cand also, the although "not stated in the bond r " to stick to office and a salary subjected to a " percentage." Remember this. If you are sick Hop Bittere will Barely aid nature in making you well when all eisß fails. If jou are costive or dyspeptic, or are suffering from any other of the numerous diseases of the Btomacb, or bowelß,*it is your own fault if you remain ill, for Hop Bitters is a sovereign remedy in all Buch coroplaintß. If you are Nervous use of Hop Bitters. If you have- rough, pimply, or sallow skin, bad brealh, pains, and aches, and ieel miserable generally ,-Kop, Bitters, will give you fair skin, rich"- blood, T and sweetest breath, and health. -Tuut-poor bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother,, pr daughter, can be made^the' picture -of -health, by American Go's. Hop Bitters, costing but v trifle. Will- you let them- uuifer ? In. short they cure all Diseases of. the elpmacb, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves,' Kidneys, Bright'a Disease. £500 will be paid for a case they will not cure or help. Druggists and Chemists keep — Pboskcotjc the Swindlers ) ! If when you coll for American Hop Bitters (see gtem-twiy of Hopi 'on the white label mid /.a, Soule'a name olown in the bottle), the vendor hands out anything but American Hop Bitters, refuse it and shun that vendor as you would a viper ; and if he has taken youi money for, anything else indict him for the fraud and sue him for dapfages for the swindle, and we will pay you liberally for the conviction. . - my 30