The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Tuesday, June 11, 1889. SOUTH PACIFIC COMPANY.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 310, 11 June 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Tuesday, June 11, 1889. SOUTH PACIFIC COMPANY.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God's, and truth’s.

Wk are sorry we cannot congratulate our readers on the present aspect of the affairs of this Company. We did think a short time since, on the Secretary cabling the agent here to " see Mr Stubbs and ascertain if he would put the bore in order, and on what terms,” that we saw land in the distance, but it has turned out to be only a cloud. The Company has returned as a sow to her wallowing, and has foolishly entered into a fresh arrangement with Mr Weaver which is very indefinite, but may be summed up as follows : Company to pay Mr Weaver's passage and expenses back to Gisborne ; to pay all wages, and fuel accounts ; and to find tools, &c., piping to be delivered on the ground by the Company forthwith, and Mr Weaver to draw pipes, clean out bore, and pump out well ; and the fortnight—that almost historical fortnight—is to be elongated into three months. As to contract, or guarantee on the part of Mr Weaver that he will do all this, or that he will do anything at all; so far as we are informed there does not appear to be any. It is the old game of heads I win, tails you lose, over again. So far as we can’ see Mr Weaver runs no risk of loss, while he has the certainty of gain. Why three months should be given to perform operations which, if they are to be successfully performed at’ all, ought to be done in three weeks, is more than we can comprehend. As well take three months to cut off a leg or an arm.

To 1 the more we reflect over it the more we feel that we cannot congratulate the shareholders on the resumption of the Weaver regime. We are always all right until we are all wrong; and so far as Mr Weaver is concerned we undoubtedly feel “ all wrong. ”

We are judging of the future by the past, and the outlook is most unpleasant. We have not the slightest hope of any greater vigour being shewn in the future than in the past; Why should there be ? Mr Weaver has no greater or stronger interest than ha had; perhaps even leas. He has no larger

stake in shares—he has no contract to fulfil—-nor has he even the hireling incentive of earning wages. Whyjthen should wej’look or (hope for any alteration in his behaviour ? Will he not be as much and as frequently seen in Gisborne as heretofore ?

Is it pretended that he will remain as assiduous at his work as the Minerva man does? Nonsense Iwe know better; and we venture to predict that the fortnight which Mr Weaver himself bespoke for his operations will be spent over and over again without any practical result except the necessitating another call. However, Wear verrons.