Inner Wheels.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 203, 2 October 1888, Page 3

Inner Wheels.

(to the editor.] Sib, —I hardly know whether to feel amused or disappointed at the changeful attitude adapted by your contemporary in its sermons on the harbor question. It was only about a week ago that the works were the very acme of perfection—anyone who said they were not was denounced as though he were a low blackguard with no interest in the district, beyond what he could make out of it by means that ■were not honest. Now we are plainly told that the extra expenditure is only meant ss an exneriment, the logical conclusion being that the £65,000 has all been thrown away in an experiment. Then in another place we are told that the obstructionists are being more obstructive than ever just now because they are afraid their evil prophe-ies will not be fulfilled I Somewhere else we are told that tho members of the board all have large interests in the district, and may be relied on to decide for the best. In what way this mass of inconsistency can be interpreted is more than I can perceive. I quite agree that the work has been much in the shape of an experiment, but I am quite astonished to hear it from such a source. When we compare such admissions with the abuse to which the Engineer has lately been subjected, there is a feeling of wonder and curiosity excited in one’s mind, and one is inclined to ask what is at the bottom of it ? Mr Graham, it is to be observed, has not come in for the slightest blame at the hands of his journalistic nurse. Surely there is something behind the scenes. Can it be that Mr Graham and his proteges have been playing a deep game, with the object of getting other individuals to pluck the ches nuts out of the fire? There is something strange about the whole affair. Is it intended to try end reserve the forty thousand until the ring has a better chance of scooping the pickings? Are things too closely watched just now ?—I am, etc., Snuff.