That places, simply and clearly, the case for the unofficials. They want more power; perhaps it would be more correct to say that they desire the freedom to exercise the power which they have been deputed to assert by the interests they represent. And these are li terests which cannot, from their nature, demand anything which not for the general good and benefit of the Colony.
From a purely business point of view, therefore, the demands made by Mr. Pollock seem to be but a very natural outcome of long suppressed energy to be up and doing, which can be suppressed no longer.
From ® purely commercial point of view, and I have secured this opinion from one of the leading commercial men of the Colony, it is due to commerce to have a bigger say in the onnduct of offal which directly affect the general well-being of the Colony,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.