The Gisborne Standard AND COOK: COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, November 20, 1888. UNITY AND PROGRESS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 224, 20 November 1888, Page 2

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

Tuesday, November 20, 1888. UNITY AND PROGRESS.

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

The harbor works were resumed yesterday, and for a time at l ast we may enjoy an immunity from the continuous bickering of which there has been so n.uch in the past. The ratepayers have given a most decided expression of opinion, and we have the publicy-made pledges of the two dissenting members of the Harbor Board—Messrs Dickson and Matthewson—that they will abide by the will of the ratepayers. Such being the case there is a grand prospect of quiet and steady work in the future, and of the devotion of the borrowed money to work*for which it was intended, instead of the dribbling of it into

the pockets of the lawyers. But though after tne storm a calm naturally prevails, we must not be insensate of the future. Many new questions may, and indeed with regard to matters of detail must arise, and which are certain to lead to differences of opinion. Still there should be found a-way of settling those differences, without a recourse to that ceaseless wrangling and internal dissension which have been the bane of the district, and as one of the results of which the place has been held up to the general derision of outsiders. Of those who voted for the loan many hold very diverse views as to the way in which the should be expended, some thinking that the whole amount is not required, others that the work should be let by contract, and so on. There is also an important question of accounts to consider, but .we hope that the Board will act firmly in the matter, and see that the /"40,000 is clear of liabilities incurred by prior engagements, such as the cement contract, and further to make certain that the ratepayers will not be taxed to make up a sinking fund for money that the district has been prohibited expending, and for which no such fund is therefore required. With regard to the works, we think the safest plan is to allow matters to take their ordinary course for the time being, and then when the time shortly comes round for the election of members, the ratepayers, we imagine, will have had an opportunity to form a fairly accurate opinion of how things are likely to turn out. Our watchword for the future should be

“ Unity and Progress,” and if differences do arise let them be settled in a way that there may be no reproach upon the district,