Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. GISBORNE : THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1883.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1361, 27 September 1883, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. GISBORNE : THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1883.

In a previous issue we passed some remarks on the complaints which had been made against the night soil contractor. We then agreed with the Committee that in several instances it had been plainly shown that a certain amount of negligence had been proved against the contractor which deserved the censure and caution conveyed in a letter sent to him by the Council. Surely any reasonable person would imagine that this would have satisfied the complaining parties, especially as a polite and graceful communication was also forwarded to the gentleman who expressed himself as being most agrieved, conveying the regrets of the Council that the annoyance had occurred, and stating that, in the event of a like future occurence swift retribution would follow. But not so with this individual, bhylock demands his pound of flesh. A further communication was received by the Council on Tuesday last asking —nay almost demanding—that the contractor be pro<ceded against at once, and expressing dissatisfation at the lenient manner in which the Council had dealt with the offender. If justice were strictly meted out to all—especially some of those who clamour most loudly about it—who should be the first —or rather the last —to cast the stone. Truly “ the heart of man, above all things, is deceitful and desperately wicked.” We also, in the before mentioned article, stated that a more substantial complaint existed with respect to over-charges made by the contractor. But we now wish to qualify this assertion, inasmuch as it appears there is a specified dimension for all boxes to be dealt with under the contract price, and those which exceed this measurement can be charged for, if no agreement otherwise exists, at the will of the contractor. This looks as though the war was being carried “ into the enemy’s camp.”