Mr. Wyld's Bill for creating Financial County Boards was on
Wednesday referred to a committee. This Bill is in principle the most radical recently introduced, for it transfers the control of county finance from the gentry to the ratepayers, creating a new Board of Magistrates and representatives in equal propor- tion, but the county members whom it affects most closely are evidently afraid openly to resist it. Their tenants do not like the ' way they are silenced about the expenditure of their own money. It is perhaps better that the question should be shelved for a time. The Tivelve-pounders will searcelybe contended to leave all execu- tive' power in the counties to nominee landlords even if they secure half the control of the rates, and it is a- pity to spoil the completeness of a reform by piecemeal legislation.
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