[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]
SIR,—True it is that in the Cape Colony there are "Boards of Executors" and "Trust Companies," authorised by law to undertake the duties of executors and trustees for reward; but there is a great danger of such Corporations becoming, like Railway Companies, so strong that private persons are afraid to insist on their rights, or are crushed by legal expenses when they do so.
The scale of charges at the Cape is, I venture to say, not nearly so " well settled " as your correspondent, " Anglo-Cape Lawyer," seems to think ; and, not unnaturally, all attempts to cut it down are resisted to the bitter end. A reference to two recent appeals to the Privy Council will confirm this view.* Besides this, I am told by those who are able to speak from personal knowledge, that in a comparatively small society like that at the Cape, so many friends and relatives of high officials are interested in these Corporations, that absolute confidence is not always felt in their impartiality in dealing with questions arising from time to time between the trustees and their
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