THE COMPLAINT FROM ROCHFORT TERRACE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 585, 25 November 1869, Page 2

THE COMPLAINT FROM ROCHFORT TERRACE.

(To the 'Editor of the Westport Times.) Sir, —In answer to your correspondent's letter, headed " A complaint from Rochfort Terrace," their chief cause of complaint seems to be the fact of Mees and party having obtained amalgamation with Wilson and party. They had their remedy. If they thought themselves aggrieved why did they not come forward at the hearing and oppose the application? But we have been expecting something of this kind—of " outburst of envy " —for some, time as one of themselves kindly informed us that they would let us get the amalgamation and then they would see and have it broken for us afterwards. Moreover, their statements are not in accordance with the truth. They endeavor to mislead the public by a false statement of simple facts, and thereby bring the Warden into discredit. They allude to a notice being posted in the Warden's office. If they take the trouble to look again and exercise their wits to a better purpose they will find that it does not refer to amalgamation, but has refer, ence to two parties working out of one tunnel. Again their comparison of this case with their own of Alton and party and the Boatman and party is very unhappy. In fact there is no simile. Theirs was an application for a three acre Block which the Warden very properly refused, whereas ours is but an amalgamation of two (4 men's) claims. With regard to their base attack on the Warden of having given a decision at variance with his former expressed opinion, he did not grant it, at the first hearing, but, after having seen a surveyor's report upon it he thought proper to grant it on special grounds when stronger reasons were advanced. With an apology for so large an encroachment on your columns, —We remain, yours obediently. Mees and Pahty, Wilson and Pabtt. Rochfort Terrace.