PATEA COUNTY COUNCIL. The regular monthly meeting oC the above Council was held atthe Council Chambers, Carlyle, yesterday. Present —Messrs Sher wood (Cnairman), Dale, Kells, Middlemas, Winks, Honeyfield, Livingstone, Bridge, and Kunah. The minutes of the three special meetings, and ordinary meeting, wcie read and conlinned. The Chairman rose to a point, of order, and stated that he, had observed members reading nowspapeis during the proceedings of the Council, which lie ruled was not right, ns members could not attend to their duties as Councillors whilst engaged in such an occupation. Mr Sherwood then called the attention of the Council to a charge that had been brought against him in the Patea Mail by Mr Middlemas, and wished, before any other business was .gone into, that the matter should he cleared up. He would suggest that the slanding orders be sus pended, ami another Chairman appointed, in order to give him a chance of clearing himself.
