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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9108, 17 July 1888, Page 4

We have no desire to continue the dis- - ; cussion of the question of the repudiation of its obligations to the Governmerit by the Thames Harbour Board Bug we would draw attention to the letter of Mr. Bagnall on the subject in our other columns. In a recent issue the Secretary of the Board maintained that the limits originally given to the jurisdiction of the Harbour Board were curtailed in the recent proclamation * which revoked the proclamation.of last year extending the limits of the harour .to , six or eighty miles inland' Admitting for the sake I 'of argument ~ that this contention is although of course it is emphatically denied by the Minister of Marine and others the loss to the Board in revenue would, as * shown by Mr. Bagnall have been so insignificant as com- - pared with the £2000 revenue of the Board, that to make this the excuse for repudiating £120 due to the Post Office trust bears absurdity on I the face of it. Of course it was only a little.piece of " bluff ; n but we fear we must ; - regard' the demeanour of the Thames Harbour > Board in this, and ' more especially in the attempts at 9 defence of it, in the face of the outraged sense of decorum of the whole \ colony, as manifesting in that body some obliquity of the moral perceptions. • - .: . , ' .',