bat that was not county interests ? What benefit does the county receive for the expenditure of £300 for making roads to Messrs Mirfio and Johnston's private residences and ending there. What right had the Council to construct a private bridge for G. Barman and another or O. Doig, over the Black water Creek T I will venture to say that neither of the above would have been done only for political patronage. What right has councillors residing in town, and r.thers residing about 20 minutes n.tikoatof town to be paid f 1 lg per sitting of coun cil, exclusive of travelling expenses ? Or what right has councillors residing any distance from town to be paid mere than reaswable travelling expenses? How can our expenditure be deemed beneficial to county interests when it takes more than the whole amount of our exorbitant rates and taxes to pay for cnileKinn, and keep our council officials in penoaaent and lucrative billets ? What benefit docs the county derive from employing a permanent oveneer at C 4 per week to oversee one or two men at work digging a bit of drain or repairing a bit of read ? I have myself, seen where the said over seer was engaged shepherding one man who was digging nut some stumps alongside the Buller Road for several days ; yet some of oar councillors have the hardi hood to tell us that the county boainea co«ld not be eficiently carried on with one official less than what is at present in the Council employ, and that the work could not possibly be done for less money then what is at present being paid. Well I remember the time undof the R.ie£ Board system, when oue man could do aa much as the whole present staff, and in finitely more satisfactory, for an amount eqnat to what is at present paid to an overseer to look after one or tw » labourer*. But there is no us ; cloaking the fact ; the whole present system of county manage ment is a miserable farce, a failure, and a fraud. What do we pay a County Engi neer £8 per week and travelling expenses for. What do we pay a County Clerk £6 per week for. What do we pay an overseer anything at all for. 