The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Saturday, November 10, 1888.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 220, 10 November 1888, Page 2

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

Saturday, November 10, 1888.

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

A telegram received from Dunedin a few days ago stated: “At a meeting of the Dock Trust to-day, only three members attended. It was decided to extend the time for floating a loan for the construction of the new dock for 12 months. One member proposed the resolution, the Chairman seconded it, and notwithstanding a protest of the third member, the resolution was carried.” When we recall to our mind the facts connected with this notorious affair, it does seem a rascally thing that two trustees can, in opposition to the only other one present, and in opposition to the wishes of every disinterested person who has a knowledge of the facts, decide upon continuing this policy of ruination to the general body of Otago settlers, and a course which is calculated to bring discredit upon the colony. Tbe Hon. Mr Campbell’s letter in the London Standard completely settled the matter for the time being, and almost certainly for all time; but it now appears there are two trustees whose vision is so obscured mentally, or blurred by selfishness, that they are still inclined to sacrifice the best interests of their fellowmen to the questionable mercies of the money-lending agents. The Otago dock is at present sufficient for all requirements for years to come, and if things remain as at present perhaps for a generation ; yet these foolish people, either to gratify a peculiar vanity, or upon the excuse of a fallacious commercial principle, will not cast aside the snare when they have the power to do so again in their own hands. But such are the examples of human folly that in these days of borrowing it is impossible to tell to what extent it may not lead. It would to our minds be incredible, were the truth not brought home to us so forcibly, to think that our own district could be crippled and hampered as it has been, without a shadow of reason for the punishment, while two Dunedin men are allowed to play fast and loose with, it might not ba too much to say, the credit of the colony.