The Globe. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 703, 20 September 1876, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876.

After reading the exhaustive letters signed “ One of the Public ” which have appeared during the last fortnight in these columns relative to the tenure of the land claimed by the Acclimatisation Society, and part of which has lately been enclosed as a recreation ground for the Hospital patients, we waited with considerable interest for Monday’s adjourned meeting to hear what light the investigations made by the secretary during the week- would throw upon the right of the Council of the Acclimatisation Society to this land, which the President threatened to insist upon, even if it had to be tried at the bar of a civil tribunal, and the result of this mountain-in labour amount of swagger was the mouse-like admission of the secretary that he had found they were in the position where they had left oft’ before, viz, “ that they had no legal standing.” Hot cne single statement advanced by our correspondent seems to have been refuted, nor any attempt made to do so, and the only conclusions that can be arrived are, one—that if some of the members knew they had no legal status, then they hoped to secure their ends by showing a bold front; or, in the next place, that having had their own way, rightly or wrongly, for so many years, they really fancied the ground belonged to them. Considering how long the patients at the Hospital have required a place where they could inhale the fresh air and take the necessary exercise their returning health required and remembering the insignificant use by comparison to which the Acclimatisation Society were devoting this ground, the persistent opposition made to the erection of this fence, and the menacing attitude and threatening expressions uttered of pulling it down, will by no means tend to raise the members of the Council, either in the estimation of the public, or we should think even in that of the members of their own society. This time, however, right has succeeded over might, and the action taken by the Domain Board has certainly tended to convince every one —even if this were necessary—that the public may rest assured that the body in whom their reserves are vested will carefully watch over and protect their interests from encroachment, without fear or favor, no matter by whom or from what quarter it may be attempted. If we mistake not, the hospital patients will have their recreation ground, and a generous public will applaud the issue.