Windsor & Richmond Gazette, Saturday, February 24, 1900 - page 4 RICHMOND Mr. Rosengren (from Messrs. Paling and Co's) will visit Richmond on the 23rd inst. All orders addressed to the Post Office will receive prompt attention. We regret to learn that Mr. and Mrs. James Douglas, senr., of North Richmond, have not had their lines cast in pleasant places of late. Mr. Douglas himself has had a six months' bout of sciatica, and one of their sons has been two years laid up with rheumatic fever. We are glad to be able to say that the old gentleman is about again, but his son's improvement is very slow. On Saturday, March 3, a £10 pigeon match, promoted by Mr. J. T. Town, will be shot off in his paddock at North Richmond. Entries close with Mr. Town on Wednesday, February 28. Shooting will commence at 2 p.m., and a good supply of first-class birds is promised. Mr. Town has a good reputation as a caterer for public amusement, and those who attend this meeting will be well served. The "Continental" at Toxana grounds on Wednesday week, in aid of the R C church improvement fund, was a successful and thoroughly enjoyable function. A really good programme was gone through, and among the more meritorious items was a glee by Messrs. Allison, W. Valder, and J. F. Shine. The convent pupils gave several dances, and Miss Shine delighted the audience with her singing. Refreshments were provided, and this was not the least interesting part of the entertainment. A sum of £10 was realised. We have received the following letter :- "Council Chambers, Richmond. 17/2/1900. The Manager, "Windsor and Richmond Gazette." Dear Sir - I have been instructed by His Worship the Mayor of Richmond to draw your attention to the notice in your last issue re election of Mayor of Richmond. It states that Mr. Alderman Hill was then elected by 5 to 7. This is an error, for when Alderman Watson was defeated by 5 to 2, Ald. Hill was elected by an unanimous vote from the seven aldermen present ; he himself did not vote, and Ald. Skuthorp, who was too ill to attend, wrote asking the Council to elect Ald, Cobcroft, or failing him, Ald Hill. His Worship will be glad if you will correct this in next issue. - Yours truly, C. S. Guest, Council Clerk." Look out for Julian A. Warren's advertisement next week. Something special in gentlemen's suits, ladies' costumes, and mackintoshes. Our Mr. R. E. Warren will call on you. Winter stock coming to hand daily. At a recent meeting of the Richmond Borough Council Ald. Campbell went out of his way to say nasty things about the Gazette. He is reported to have said "a dirty little paragraph recently appeared about himself, which was inspired by one of the aldermen." If Ald. Campbell said this, he said what was untrue and cowardly. We know what paragraph he referred to, and if it fitted his case he is welcome to it. It was inspired by no alderman, and we can assure Mr. Campbell that the gentleman who was supposed to have given us inspiration knew nothing of the par until he saw it in cold print. We were surprised at the manner in which Ald, Campbell let his tongue run riot. No man has been more humiliated by what he said than himself, and we know that he is heartily ashamed of the part he took in that disgraceful meeting. Again, let us quote Ald. Campbell's published remarks : "He was surprised to see a paper which he had supported for years being made a tool of by Ald. Watson."! Just here we could say some nasty and cutting things about Ald. Campbell, but we're not built that way. We give him fair warning, however, that if ever he attempts to make a target of this paper again in order to put himself right with any clique, we'll come down on him like a ton of bricks - and fight him with his own weapons. We had the courage to stand up for what we conceived to be the "right" against the overwhelming odds of "might," and Ald Campbell to the contrary, we assert that we are not, were not, and never will be the tool of Ald. Watson or any other man. Neither do we run the Gazette to felicitate any particular set or section of the people. Since the foregoing was written we have been assured by Ald. Campbell that what he said was not correctly reported.