and we are content to leave the question in the hands of the ratepayers who in the course of a few days will be called upon to elect the guardians for the ensuing year, It will be for them to decide by their votes whether the press of this borough - circumspect as it usually is in all things requiring secresy(sic) - shall be allowed to exercise its legitimate functions at the Board of Guardians, or whether the public shall continue in comparative ignorance of how the money goes.
In Darkness Still. There having been no opposition in the election of Guardians, we as a matter of course, arrive at the conclusion that the public are satisfied with their representatives and the manner in which the affairs of the union are conducted. We content ourselves with the decision of the ratepayers; and of course they are fully aware that we shall still be precluded giving the information which is often sought at our hands.
Still Shut out. At the meeting of the Board of Guardians on the 5th of May, Mr Guedalla, in a long and able speech, introduced his motion for the admission of reporters of the public press. The motion was seconded by Mr. Putland and supported by Mr Gutsell, the only three out of sixteen guardians present who had the courage to vote for their meetings to be made public. Mr. Harvey, as might have been supposed, was strong against the motion, whilst the following gentlemen also gave an adverse vote: Messrs. Free Beerless, Wickens, Cook Wod, Winter Hutchings, Woodhams, Jarvis and Howiss. Mr Broinley was in the chair.
A New Road.
The long desired and projected road between Battle an Seddlescomb was commenced in the month of May, and was regarded when finished, as of some convenience to the people of Hastings and St Leouards, in-as-much as Battle could be reached by train, and Seddlescomb, Brede and other places via the said new road. The writers experience of the completed road was to encounter a large snake lying therein.
Billies and Nannies
to the number of 70 literally flocked into St. Leonards on Monday the 22nd of August, and although they under the watchful eyes and sturdy care of two or three goatherds of the Welsh mountains, they gamboled briskly along the Marina, and with a nonchalance of perfect indifference as to whether the drovers were intent on selling them or not. Among them were sizes and colours of all shades and degrees, including the sleek and the slim, and the rough and the ruddy; but the gist of this paragraph lies in the fact that so large a flock of goats in these parts is a decided novelty.
Bonfire Boys
To the number of one hundred or more, the St. Leonards Bonfire Boys turned out on the evening of Guy Fawkes Day, as was their annual -
