EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11265, 5 February 1912, Page 5

EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.

■COUNCIL BREAKS UP IN DiS ORDER,

COUNCILLOR HINDMARSH RULED OUT OF ORDER.

Angry words ami extreme tension /accompanied the sudden break-up of the City Council meeting at about 12.45 o'clock ou Saturday, says the N.Z. Times. The pressmen, who had been asked to retire from the chamber Tit a quarter before noon, were waiting about outside to learn the result of the deliberations ami were speculating as to how long the Council was likely to sit. Suddenly the doors leading from the •chamber into an aute-rooni were rluug open and a number of councillors came hurriedly out. They looked ■worried ami appeared to be labouring under great excitement. t"What is the matter?" one of them is asked. "Has anything been decided. WOULD NOT BE INSULTED. "Not a thing,'' was the reply. "The Council lias broken up in confusion. We weren't going to stay there to be insulted by Hiudmarsh, ■so we got up ami came right out. There was a confused hum of exeit--ed conversation in the ante-room, when suddenly the door leading to the Council chamber was thrown open again and an angry voice was heard declaring vehemently that its owner wasn't going to stand "this sort of thing any more." ' The voice was that of Councillor Hindmarsh, who immediately afterwards appeared and began to make his way through the throng in the ante-room towards the corridor. He was excited. His hair almost stood on end, and his eyes flashed. Somebody spoke to him and then the outsiders began to get an inkling of ■what had happened. CHEATED WITH WORDS. "You cannot cheat me with words like that," he declared hotly. "1 tell you that Fuller resigned on the request of the Tramways Committee, -and not on his own at all. We asked ifSliru to resign, I tell you." "No, no, you shouldn't say that,", protested Or Shirtchffe. "You have no right to say it." "Yes, 1 should," said Cr Hindniarsli. swinging round and facing Cr Shirtchffe. "1 am right, and you know it. We did ask him to resign. I say it now, and I am willing to say it publich, and to substantiate it too." Other voices were raised in protest and denial, but Cr Hindmarsh hotly affirmed that ho was right and would stick to what he said. "You cannot cheat me by playing with words like that," ho declared. » Hot retorts were made by other Councillors, and confusion reigned for a few moments. Then Cr Hindmarsh rushed from the room to leave the building. ENCOUNTER IN THE CORRIDOR. On his way down the corridor, lie passed the acting-Mayor talking to a group of pressmen. He stopped suddenly, and, going close to Mr Smith, said excitedly: "You had no right to stop me like you did. You had no business to rule me out of order." gjk "Ob, yes, I had," said the aeting™layor, composedly. "You hadn't," sharply retorted Cr Hindmarsh, raising his voice. "You had no right at all. You can't cheat me bj - playing with words, and you can't cheat the men. I broke your Council up for you, and I'll smash it up every time you rule me out of order like that." "Come, come, yon won't do that," was the acting- Mayor's quiet rejoinder. "GO TO THE DEVIL!" "Oh, yon can go to the devil!" vociferated Cr Hindmarsh with emphasis. "Yon can go to the , " began the acting-Mayor, but he then paused, to Jimsh by significantly jerking his thumb over his right shoulder. "I. am not afraid of you," he continued on a movement being made by Cr Hindmarsh, "and you are not. afraid of mo, so there is a pair of us." Thereupon Cr Hindmarsh moved off, and soon disappeared down the stairs.