LOCAL JEALOUSIES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3512, 29 March 1880, Page 2

LOCAL JEALOUSIES.

(To the Editor of the Brening Star.) Sib,—-During the past few months I bare noticed with feelings akin to sorrow, a growing estrangement between the two principal centres of the Borough. The people of Shortland are beginning to aee that the Grahamstown residents,, being the stronger, are grasping everything and totally. ignoring the rights of the southern portion of the Borough. Often has this been instanced of late. Just look at the way we Shortlanders. hare been treated in the matter of the water supply and the Kauaeranga channel. Everything is Grahamstown! Grahamstowu! and all money spent outside of that portion of the Borougu is looked on as wasted. And then there was a slight thrown on us on Saturday, in the Mayor not extend* ing his official welcome till Albert street was reached. " Why were not the Waikato men welcomed at the Borough boundary P Local jealousy was the cause of it all. Why were not their horses quartered in Smales' buildings there, where they were

offered free stabling, instead of being placed in a breakwind shanty in Grahamstown? Again I say local jealousy was the cause. We are beginning to feel the unfair way we are treated more and more and more, and I think the best thing the people of Shortland can do will be to get up a petition to join the County. There at any rate we would be free from the fools who rule the roost in the Borough Council, even if we fall into the arms of .—I am &c, ; . Citizen.