We feel sure that m advocating this step we are expressing the views and consulting the interests of the inhabitants of this district, and we confidently anticipate that the more it is considered m detail, nnd all its bearings examined, the more it will commeni itself to the judgment of the Government and the favorable opinion of the public. The public have ■" right to complain of the very unwarrantable action taken by the Chairman of the Levels Road Board, m answering on his own private responsibility a telegram from the Go vernment, which was addressed to him m his public capacity, as representing the Board. Thnt the terms ot that an swer were a complete misrepresentation of the condition of the district, and were prompted more by a hobby of his own than by any regard for the public interest, although a fact, is somewhat beside the point to which we would especially invite attention. The most important question is, what right has the Chairman of a Road Board to take the control of affairs of the Board out of the hands ot its members ? If he may answer an important telegram from the Government, without its first having 1 received the consideration, or even come to the knowledge of the - other members of the Board, may he not also reply to letters, accept or decline tenners, appoint or dismiss employe's, or authorise the expenditure of money? There is really no security against his proceeding to such an abuse of his position ; for, if his sense of the fitness of things, and' his respect for his colleagues m the Board, and the public who placed them all there, aro not sufficient to prevent his sending a private reply to a public telegram, • there is no knowing what his ideas of propriety m other respects may be, or to whatlengths he may allow his private feelings and opinions to lead him. The members of the Road Board are elected by the inhabitants to carry on their public business, and the Chairman is merely chosen for the sake of order, and to be the mouthpiece of a majority of the members after deliberation m due form. He has no public status at all apart from the Board, nor any separate authority or responsibility whatever. 