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1 STOP EAST CQAST LINE? (By Telegraph.—Press Association,) Wairoa, October 3. A public meeting last night, the Mayor presiding, discussed tho stoppage of tho liast Const railway. No hostility was evinced to (he Government, but it was slated Wuiroa pcoplo wore determined not to sit idly down and let the agitation of the last twenty years go for nothing. Tho following resolution was unanimously passed: "That tlio'attention of tho Minister for Public Works and tho Premier bo drawn to thc-Vfnct that tho Wairoa district lacks railway communication, and that it is urgently necessary that the railway bi> proceeded with without delay, and that Mr. Campbell and Sir J. CarToll, 11.1'., bo asked to uh.> their liest endeavours in this direction." It was also decided to draw tho attention of Ministers to the advisability of starting at Wairo i, as twenty lniles north and south there is easy country with a prospect of immediate-return. A further resolution- was passed: "That tlio question of making tho Nnpior-Wiiiroa-Gisborno railway an cloctrio railway be pressed on the attention of tho Minister for Public Works in order to obtain lighter construction and lessened, running cost." A vote of thanß3 was passed to Mr. Vigor Brown, M.P., Napier, thanking him for his advocacy of tho Knst Coost railway and the harnessing of the Waikareinoana i\s a fource of electric jxnvcr for the North Island, and asking him to continue his advocacy in both directions. A strong Railway league Committee was formed to keep the agitation going. NAPIER. RESOLUTION. ' Napier, October 3. Tlio Borough Council last night unanimously «do]il-.vl a resolution "ru-ofejtiiiß again*)', the Ciovornmont's decision to ««*• jiond operations on the Napier end of the l'<a-it Coast railway. HASTINGS PETITION. (By Tclcsraph.—Special Correspondent.) Hastinns, October 9. A petition is boing circulated in llast inss nsliinß tho MiniMvr to reconfider the route of the East Coast railway.