Featherston Town Board Election.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1887, 22 September 1886, Page 2

Featherston Town Board Election.

To the Editor of the Standard. Sir,— ln reply to an intimation of “M " in a letter in your paper of this date, referring to certain improvements in front of properties of|the members of the Town Board being paid for oat of their funds, I, in my case, beg to state that it is an unmitigated falsehood. The two culverts put in in front of my premises, were paid for by myself, both labour and material, the Board patting a few loads of gravel only, as is always the case. I am, &o„ J. D. Oaklv. Featherston, September 20, 1886. To the Editor of the Standard.

Sin,—As a ratepayer in this district I must confess candidly I regret very much another well known candidate was not elected on Wednesday last. He would have been an addition to our Board. In most places such men are sought after. Many dodges are often resorted to in election cases, bat to hear names of men connected with such shady practices as those practised on Wednes day last lor the sake of obtaining a seat is revolting. That they must feel greatly vexed with their own conduct before this I feel prepared to guarantee. If the candidate to whom I allude would put up again when an opportunity arises, he will be in a very different place on the poll. It is not to be wondered at that many respectable men often stand aloof from public matters. I also feel certain this would not have happened had or any one canvassed for him so as to have exposed any damaging reports. I learn be did not ask any one to vote for him, so what votes he got were from independent ratepayers, and not obtained by coercion and false statements.

I am, Ac., B. Featberston, 20th September, 1886. SOUR GRAPES. To the Editor of the Standard. Sib,—Hare you not made a mistake in the signature to a letter iu to-day’s Standabd ? Are you quite sure that •' 0 ” should not have been substituted for “M ” ? However, let me tell your correspondent "M” no one denies that be has done good work for Featherston in days gone by, and so likewise have others, and it comes with a very bad grace from him to foul bis own nest, when he WA one of the most continuous of what he pleases to designate " the continuous Town Board of Featberston,” as he held the office of Chairman, Clerk, and Treasurer combined far many years, and no doubt would have been a member still, but, as rumor says, for the following incident ; - Just before the last election, three years ago, because a requisition was not got up by the ratepayers asking him to stand again for re-electiou, in a fit of temper he left the district the day before the nomination, without leaving his friends any instructions as to hie intentions re nomination, and did not return until after the election, thus treating the electors, who had always supported him, and the members of the retiring Board with contempt. How. evor, he has now made a serious charge against a member of the Board, which it is his duty as a gentleman to prove, nnless he shelters himself behind the cognomen of “ M " ; he has stabbed a man in the dark, well knowing he is protected by that signature. No one knows better than himself that the Board’s accounts are open for inspection by any ratepayer, and as for publishing them annually, why did he not set the example when iu office. It seems a most extraordinary thing that he should only now have found out all these grievances he corn, plains of. It certainly was a pity he was not returned, especially after he and his friends took so much trouble to let everyone know what he intended doing when elected. Evidently defeat never entered his head, but unfortunately, '• the beat laid plans of men and mice gang aft aglee,” and so landed our friend " M ” in a minodty of one. In conclusion, I would recommend our friend " M ” to keep his temper, and in course of time he will yet again grace the Board as Chairman, and perhaps also have J.P. at the end of his name to boot, an honor he is most anxiously waiting and longing far. Yours, Ac., Ecci Homo. Featberston, Sept. 20. ’ L Our correspondent is wrong in his suspected authorship of the letter siged M.—Ed'

At the annual meeting of the Wanganui Dniry Factory Company on Saturday, the balance sheet showed a profit of £419 for the season, equal to 25 per cent, on the paid-up capital. The turn-out of cheese was 31Hons 4owt. The factory has again started work with expectations of a better season than last.

Application for a new trial in the civil case Wellington Meat Export Company v. the Shaw Savill, and Albion Company has been lodged in the Supreme Court. An old mau named Archibald Dodge, was found dead among! the rooks at Island Bay ou Monday afternoon. A scrap of paper was found upon him with these words '• Tired and worn oat with anxiety. William Ward.”