THE WARD'S MEETING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 76, 28 February 1884, Page 3

THE WARD'S MEETING.

» The ratepayers evidently are quite satisfied with existing arrangements in the Borougli, and really desire no change to take place. This waß proved ' by the lack of interest manifested in ] the public meeting convened for last nigbt, there not being twenty persons i present. 2S?o ', doubt the unpleasant, may have deterred some 'from attending, but the -plain feet remains that it i»; apparent the wards' division, which has been made a question •of so much importance, is not desired by the bulk of the ratepayers. And yet ono or two individuals were found with \ such little regard for propriety as to attempt to coerce the Mayor into hold- ' ing the meeting. Gould any proposal lie more absurd or more presumptuous than for eight ratepayers to decide on such an important question as the division of the Borough into wards? Yet if they could have had their own way such would have been carried. They would have committed the Mayor to a palpable indiscretion, for which he would have been severely censured, and then left him to get out of the scrape the best way he could. But he was, not so easily ,to be c*ught gapping, land discreetly put the question to the > decision of the meeting, with the result that it was resolved in consequence of the small attendance to postpone further consideration of the matter of i wards division until u future occasion, i The "party" no doubt are chagrined, :but let the leaders exercise that great i virtue 'patience, and they will hav^ j their reward, -h' 6 cross, no crowri. i Surely their resources and expedients are not yet exhausted.