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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1669, 24 June 1875, Page 2

We are extremely obliged, and so will our readers be, to Mr Turner, for hia valuable and interesting communication published in another column on the important subject of street railways. We confess that we had a fear as to the success of the system, if applied to Auckland, owing to the hillycharacter of the site of the city ; but the evidence of experience, as furnished by Mr Turner, gives a new aspect to the case. That difficulty of steep gradients overcome, ■there is not a word to urge against the system ; but altogether to the contrary, the initiation of such a cheap and convenient and even luxurious means of travel between

the city and the suburbs, would be hailed as the greatest of boons to both rich and poor in this city. The visit of Mr Turner is most opportune, and wq trust that this first draught of Yankee notions enjoyed through his visit, may be but a foretaste of other things to come. We devoutly believe that America should be the teacher of these colonies in everything pertaining to the social and economic requirements of young communities, and despite the sneers of the old fogies of the Press, who bristle up at our Yankee predilections, we believe the regeneration of New Zealand will come from over the Paciflc.