The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1883.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3648, 22 March 1883, Page 2

The Daily Telegraph. THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1883.

' Tin-: Napier Harbor Hoard, at it* meeting' ' on Tuesday, passed a resolution to the effect b tli.'it application be made to (lie (Jeneral Assembly to grant an endowment to the; ' Board of 5000 acres in one block, and : •JS.OOO acres in another, in all ."JH.OOO acres I of'laud. We would ask, is this endow- ' incut, supposing it is grunted, large enough r ' lliiwkc's Bay has been proverbially modest I in all its requests, and more sturdy beggars ' have obtained what this district has felt ' ashamed to ask for. There are likely to be a good many applications next session be- ! fore the General Assembly for endowments ' for harbors, and it is just possible that ' those who will ask for most will bo regarded as the most deserving. A deputation 1 waited the other day on the Premier to urge ' the justice of endowing the Wellington ' harbor with land. Hone harbor gets an ' endowment another should receive the sanio ' treatment was the argument used by the deputation, and we are not going to gain-•j-ivit \Va quite agree ivitli the Wau.<raiiui 1 Herald when it says "every harbor should stand entirely on its own merits. If a ■ harbor is of sufficient importance to require a large endowment to make it tit for receiving ships of a certain size, let its claim ' be weighed without regard to what uome other harbor has received. The Premier . replied to the Wellington deputation that ' the Ministry would give the subject their earnest consideration. What the result oi this consideration may be we do not know, but w<; expect the answer will not be very favorable. It might, however, go so far as to imply that if a member brought in an I endowment bill the Crowu would uot refuse its asseut, leaving illu to nui the gauntlet of both Houses. Other meut bills will be on the stocks, and the aes9»t vf tbe C;w» will bp The

House of Representatives will probably be influenced to pass most of them ; but their fate may be very different in the Council. Yet we cannot see why harbors arc not to be treated in the same way as railways. In Wanganui 'and our contemporary might have added Napier) the pro.-pi-rity of "the whole district depends as intimately on good harbor accommodation as on the railway. But this cannot be provided without money or landed endowments, and if the Government or Legislature are so short-sighted as to refuse the moans ?>f improvement, the growth of the district may be stunted, and the colony injured."'