The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday October 15, 1887, THURSDAY NIGHT’S MEETING.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 54, 15 October 1887, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Saturday October 15, 1887, THURSDAY NIGHT’S MEETING.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

The meeting on Thursday evening was not by any means so well attended as the importance of the questions to be considered should have ensured. Of course this may be accounted for in many ways. First, the weather was far from pleasant, and then again that same spirit of apathy which has always pervaded many of those who ought to be the reverse was again dominant.

But if it were not a large meeting, it was, as Mr Rees said, a very good representative one, and the spirit of unanimity that prevailed was a very gratifying feature.

His Worship the Mayor made up well for the weakness on which we felt compelled to comment in reference to a previous meeting, and the clear and lucid way in which he brought out his facts and figures must have been convincing to all who were present. On the other hand, we must again deprecate the remarks of one of the speakers. On no account should we go beating about the bush, but let this cry about the district being depressed and overburdened be put on one side. No one can know better the difficulties with which we have had to contend than those who have undergone bitter experience. Instead ot giuinbling about what we have suffered in the past, we must try and pierce the cloud of the future.' If a stranger were to make statements that were damaging to the district they would be quickly resented, and why' allow one of ourselves to lapse into a false position.

The effect of this was altogether superseded, though, when Mr Sievwright, Mr Rees, and the cheery Mr Maude came forward, and the former’s remarks were pithy and to the point. Dlr Rees had a subject that he knows well how to handle,"[and the time, we believe, is not far distant when his theories will bejput to a practical test. It is to be hoped that the feeling of unanimity which has now been attained will be more closely cemented when the delegates reach Wellington. Mr Graham will then have an opportunity which we feel sure he will avail himself of, to fulfil the pledges he made at the declaration of the poll.