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Thames Star, Issue 1785, 22 September 1874, Page 2

IN referring to the dr*j^e litigation at the Warden's Court; to day, Captain Eraser said that had the matter been left to dear* head-d business men then would hare been no difficulty with the defendants. The people on the Thames were reasonable enough to know that the district was jreatly benefited by tho pump; but the promoters had come down with, their scheme upon the people, aad wished them to ■wallow it (without mastiosv tion;. Whether or not Captain Eraser is rijiht in the main, it is certain that the course referred to would hare left therespeotire par* ties in the actions with better balances mt their banktrs. . ; Says a wit, " Last year I saw a watch spring, a note run* a rope walk, a horse fly, and even the big trees leave. I even saw a plank walk, and' a Third-avenue bank run; but the other day I saw a tree box, a cat fish, and a stone fence. lam prepared to see the Atlantic coast, aad the Pacific slope.'.