MASTERTON MAYORAL ELECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 326, 27 November 1879, Page 2

MASTERTON MAYORAL ELECTION.

,tlft MU K la3tevenin 2 We number of burgesses assembled outside the Courthouse at Masterton to hear heresijUfthepoll. Mr R Mm, declared the number of rotes to beEeist 107, and Renall 89. Mr Feist ascending;the verandah.of the telegraph office, thanked the bureesw rom the first hehad not beensatgS success, and he was pleased to find tW fkffW u e ? confiden °e-He trusted hat they would have no cause to regret the choice which they had made-(Ap-Mr Renall said he was equally thankful, The reason he was behind was because e«nyo them were not'on 2 oil He had also lost votes by not coming forward suißciently early. He W ould nunce that he would come forward again next year—(Cheers). , 8 , - lliam3 then the em lag, He said: I ask your indul geuce for a moment to rebut certain statementsmadebyMr Kenall on Monday 1 last as an election dodge at the public! T^t'JW? 810 hi s remarks respecting the LSOO b.ll of the old Local Board ihey were altogether untrue, Mr Renall said he never heard or knew how the money was expended; ' I have brought wih me to-night the bank book and -[displayed them-which anyone can I exannne for himself and see how the' LSOO was expended. Had I been present at thelate meeting, Mr Feist would not have beaten Mr Renall by 20 vote bu by 60, as I should have exposed The untrue statements Mr Renall made on hat occasion. lam glad however, to see the ratepayers are above claptrap. When for £265 lis 4d. I simply say this because I have been placed in an unfortunate position. ■ Of the members of the old Local Board Mr Feist is the only man who has got up to defend it besides myself when Mr Renall has attacked it. Mr Kenall accused me on Monday night of having snubbed members of the (Jou* cil when I was Mayor. I appeal to former members whether I did not treat! them with the utmost courtesy, excepting one,MrWoodroofe, and I should C listened to him with the greatest pleasure if he had ever uttered six words with any sense in them. Mr Renall was formerly! Secretary and Treasurer to the old Road Board, I hear that he has never, ren-1 dered an account to the present day ■ Mrßenall-Attheoldßoadßoardl never had anything to do'with the money I was neither Secretary nor Treasurer The bank book Mr Williams has shown you is a sham. Ask Mr Wilsone if it has been presented to him to be audited It is a damned sham (loud applause.) ■ After a scene of some confusion, in which the crowd cheered and both Mr Renall and Mr Williams spoke together whUe the advance agent of theTroubador troupe dived m with a handfull of bills and placed some two or three hundred in about three minutes, Mr Williams, obtaining a hearing, said it wasthe late Mr Masters they had to thank for the Small Farm Reserves, not Mr Rena 1. If he were asked who it was who had kept Masterton back more than anyone else for the last ten years he should say Renall, ■ ' ' Mr Renall retorted by calling Mr Wiliams_ aland jobber, and asserting that and jobbers were the greatest curse to the community. Referring again to the old Local Board, he said that the assets handed over by it consisted of olduncolected rates. [Mr Williams: Don't tell "es.l The old Masterton Road Board accounts were in the hands of Mr Wilson, He was not Treasurer to it. Mr Williams: Dont tell a lie.] At least only a little while. His accounts were •audited and found correct. (No!) Mr Rockel, as a member of the old Road Board, testified to the fact that they had tried to get a statement of acQounts.from Mr Renall, and had failed in doing bo. !■.■'' " ! ■ ■■■ • After a few more speeches of a fragmentary character had been made the crowd dispersed.