COUNTY MATTERS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1357, 4 February 1884, Page 2

COUNTY MATTERS.

(To THE El?ITOIC IKA.GXHCA TIMXS.) Sib, — Public attention, hiving beer called to the tactics of the present Cnuntj Council in regard to the for hcnmimi elections, allow me to> recall some of th< indignation which your virtuous coiiirtefnporary feigned cm a former occasion, when tha saitfe Councillors so «naßessffiHjr ma tlipula ed the rolls. On that ra*moran]< occasion the Inang&frua : BeraM {2#Hi March, 1881). said : "We have no desire to ipftame the pttbh'c mind, or.to dwell unduly upon the attempt which- has been made to interfere with the rights and privileges of the ratepayeCT.-but it- would be a . mistaken feeling of forbearance amounting t«i pusillanimity if we fafleflto express diatrust an^.jabhprreu(rf.' of the plan ; of aotion which h'^s cimtrolled the .present- v4ihia.ti.Hn."" ■ y°wr- « vivtooua . con-: • tempoi-arv is silent now^ and why is hfl silent ? Doeß he approve *h«> action of the Council's servant in this wretched and imjust miner's right business, or is he ton pusillanimous to denounce it ? Rut I hope the ratepayers' won't be afraid tn denounce it from one end of the ounty to the other. Is a community like this to be made a pocket-borough of by a few greedy, selfseeking politicians, who, fur twelve vyears past . have held public opinion by the throat, and defied the voice aud wishes of the majority 'Is there not one man in all the eight councillors who has the pi trek to stand up- in his place- in that Council and denounce and disown such an attack upon the rights and. liberties of the ratepayers. .. Every'ntember of the CounA?oil who iloesnot~*e|>tßißitef:''«»44 condeuad

the act bust share equally in the- contempt wfek-jghich it is. regarded ..by ev«rx_. right-thiuking man. • v :""■ • lam, Ac., .' :;; Ratepayer Reefton, JanuaiT 31st, 1884