'The usual mesting of this body, held on the 8th inst., was less interesting than usual, but a' resolution moved by Mr. Osborne asking for certain returns to be made, in consequence of some misleading {statements made in a memorandum dated the 20th June by three Government officials which imputed negligence to the Board in the conduct of sanitary affairs, elicited another ebullition of temper from Capt.- Supt. May, He said he thought it somewhat peculiar for Mr. Osborne to ask for this return, seeing that he was one of the signatories petitioning to the Secretary of State—''a petition which stated that nothing had been done in sanitary matte: s for twenty years, and which damns the Sanitary Board, damns the Government, and doums everyone who has anything to do with the sanitary affairs of the colony." Dr. Clark, Medical Officer of Health, who said he was personally prepared to' vouch for the inaccuracy of some of the statements made in the memorandum, seconded the motion, which was carried." Mr. Osborne wisely fore bore any retort to Mr. May's challenge.
In this connection, it is very much to be regretted that Mr. May should indulge in such unseemly dispixys of temper and allow his feelings to carry him away the manner that he has done lately. He has this year done much to impair the reparation he bad xcjuired of being useful and capable official. No one doubts his ability now, but they do begin to question his fairness and to distrust his judgment, while his temper bids fair to come an infirmity.
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