I hope be another "example of what may be done by the eye" -as Capt. Heale calls it for I hope that no great engineering talent will be brought into practice - for if it is it will cost no end of money. I think seriously of this Shortland and Ohinemuri line - not on account of the line itself but how it may affect the Peaks line just completed. Taipari thinks it may be taken as far as Hikutaia but no further. He has been in the office several times and he states that he does not think it advisable to force it on, that it will be erected he is confident but he says "kia totohu te pongarehu o tenei kua ote nei" - I have talked to several individuals on the subject including Dr. Pollen and they all appear of one mind. Dixon has a paper signed by a lot of natives giving their consent but I understand that they are chiefly Ngatikoi - this in itself will rouse the Ngatitau atera and Hira's