WATERWORKS.

Evening Star, Issue 3490, 30 April 1874, Page 3

WATERWORKS.

. To the Editor. Sir, —From the feeling manifested at the two'meetings on the Waterworks difficulty, it is quite evident that the Corporation will be backed up by the citizens in their endeavor to construct new works for therqselvea/ or in trying to have the present ppwers of the Waterworks Contpaqy reduped. It is a pity that such extreme measures have become necessary, because in my humble opinion, if more discrimination and less recrimination had characterized the former negotiations, the waterworks would now have been in the hands of the Corporation. I am loathe to think that the shareholders of the Company are so devoid of all sense of honor as they have been depicted to us. As I ready believe that this vexed question could >e settled if gone the right way about, I oeg most respectfully to suggest to the ■iayor and Councillors to make one more dual offer of Ll6 per share to the Company, Let all the past bickerings, personalities, and ill-feeling be buried in oblivion. Let no made to past offers and nego-

tiations. Couch the offer in the mildest, most respectful, and yet at the same time firmest terms. Tell the Company in the clearest way that this is going, to be abso utely the last offer, and I have no fear of the result. A compromise is highly desirable for all parties. To obtain this, one of the parties must yield, and instead of the Corporation suffering in dignity by consenting to make this final offer, they would raise themselves in the estimation of the citizens by sacrificing their personal feelings for the good of the City. Should the Company, after receiving this offer, still refuse to sell at LI6 per share, after morally binding themselves (according to Mr Gillies’s own view of the transaction) to sell at Lls per share, they will only have themselves to blame if they lose the sympathy and respect of all right-minded citizens; and the Corpowould then be amply justified in constructing new works and opposing the Company in every shape and form. Sincerely hoping that such an offer will be at once made, and fully believing that it will be accepted.—l. am., _ . David E. Hay. Princes street, April 30.