A PLANT WITH A VENGEANCE.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2841, 23 March 1878, Page 2

A PLANT WITH A VENGEANCE.

(To tbe Editor of tho Evening Btar.) Sin,—l hare had great pleasure in reading a few warning words from Mr Plant to the ratepayers of this district about the waste of public money, osv the reception of His Excellency the Gorernor, and I also read an editorial note, inwhich you advised him to wait; and yon offer him one consolation, that it would not be long when he will find a more legitimate cause for complaint than the reception of the Marquis of Normahby. T think, sir, the time has already arrired with m ren. geance when the people may bare • decent growl and something to grumble at, and any one that takes the'trouble to read the report of the proceedings of the Thames Harbor Board, in your isiae of the 21st inst. will, perhaps, arrive at the same conclusion as myself.*: I: see* that our respected townsman Mr B. Graham claims sea frontage to bis property. Now, sir, what does that mean? Why, simply this, that Mr Graham modestly ask* the Thames Harbor Board to hand over a little more than one-half of the foreshore of the Thames Goldfield for hit exclusive admittedly the, most. valuable endowment the inhabitants of jfflto ' place may expect to reeeire. But/sir, / having seme slight recolleotibn of a certain block ot larid called SA, and Mr Graham's action therein, I am not surprised at any modest request like this that Mr Bobert Graham would make, nor.do I blame him or any man to do the best they earn for' themselves f butwhat I take execration to, is this: I find that oar worthy-Mayor proposes that two gentlemen form a committee, whose duty it will be to enquire into fid bring forward a report aa to the justice of those claims or otherwise. Well, sir, I would like to know you know why Mr Bobert Graham's manager, evidently not a disinterested, person,. should be appointed to perform Jsach an office. Is it to be expected that he e*n giro a fair and an impartial decision in respect to his employer's claims P It might be said that he only has a vote; but, what I say is, that when a committee bring a report forward, the whole body are in general swayed to a great extent by any such report. Now, Mr Editor, is this to be the end of the agitation that for a number of years has been going on P I think that if our local stump orators thought that they were working for the benefit of Mr Graham, the' foreshore of the Thames would not be granted^ Let Mr Plant and his twenty ratepayers watch the end of this affair, and be ready to resist, eren in a Court of Justice, the foul wrong that some people are eridently contemplating, and they may do more good than quibbling orer the expenditure of a few pounds which in all justice ought to be spent in according a fitting reception to the repreieutatire of Her Majesty.—l am, Ac, ■ " ■ • v Pi>fDiA2f Q'BafmbttV Grahamstown, - ' ' . 28nd March, 1878.