THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2783, 15 January 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1878.

The state of affairs in connection with the Domestic Waiter Supply, disclosed at the last t*vb meetings, suggests that some prompt action should be taken to rescue the corporation from bankruptcy, and the direction that action should take was indicated by one of the members of Committee at the meeting yesterday. The diversity of interests represented at the Board has not conduced to economical working. The principal revenue is no doubt derived from the Borough, and the sums of money spent in extending the supply up the creeks has been almost, if not entirely unproductive. It may be said, that the residents of the creeks and elevated portions of the town are as much entitled to the water as the Borough. Granted. But it must be remembered that a condition of the water supply being handed over was that no profit was to be sought to be made on the management. If this condition be- observed, it stands to reason that there will be no accumulation of funds for extension, and if extensions are to be made money must be raised in some other way. If the management of the water supply were in the hands of the Borough or County there would be no difficulty in raising sufficient money to extend its benefits and make them general, and a more equitable form of payment for such benefits would then be tho levying of a rate. It is pretty evident that the present management will not be able to carry on with any degree of satisfaction to themselves or the public, and the sooner one of the local governing bodies assumes control the better. A good sum of money might be borrowed for the purpose of extending the pipes in all necessary directions, enlarging tho reservoir, and completing the appliances, as also for connecting with the big race in order that the million gallons per diem to be reserved for. a domestic supply may be taken advantage of when necessary. Should these things be done, a water rate might be levied, which would be more satisfactory than the present charges, as they seem to be regulated on no principle at all, but according to the arbitrary dictum of some of the Corporation employes.