THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY. MAY 3, 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2596, 3 May 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY. MAY 3, 1877.

At the-meeting of the Harbor, Board last night there was displayed a unanimity which may be regarded as eminently satisfactory. This unanimity was displayed in tho right direction too, and we may take a little credit to ourselves for having helped to bring this about, the course we adopted having strengthened the convictions of some members who were always in favor of assuming the control of the harbor, and made converts *of others. It would have been a very great pity, after the trouble that has .been taken to get a Harbor Board appointed,' for the first elected members to have tacitly admitted that they could not dp the work they were elected to perform. Against this we contended, and endeavored to show that the position was not so bad as it was represented. The members of the Board —anxious, we believe, to promote the interests of the district—appointed a Committee to see into the question of' revenue and expenditure, on which the acceptance or rejection of the responsibility which attaches to the control and management of the Harbor really depended. Leaving out the large sums which were set down in the Harbor Master's estimate for repairs to wharves, and cutting down some other items in the expenditure, they reduced the liabilities by ono. half; while by an equally simple process they proved that the estimated revenue can be'made to show a surplus over requirements for salaries and maintenance. In leaving out the sum for repairs to Goods Wharf, the members of the Harbor Board justly argued that if the Government retained control there was little prospect of the repah's being executed;' so that the wharf could not suffer through

being under control of the Local body but rather the chances of its being repaired would be increased under local management. The Board therefore came to a unanimous decision to take over the control and .management of the Harbor, on the terms mentioned by the Hon. the Attorney General to the chairman, Mr Davies, that the foreshore shall be handed: over as an endowment for the Harbor. It was also mentioned at the meeting last night that two of the three absent members would concur in | the resolution arrived at, so we may ! look forward to the time when the Board I shall have properly assumed their function with confidence that they will work well together to advance the interests of the Port of Thames.