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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3048, 2 April 1881, Page 2

Referring to Major Atkinson's address to the electors, the Patea Mail says:— Settlers and tradesmen felt that the Major's defiant assertions as to having had more than our share ia everything was somehow contrary to what each man could see every day. We had had more than onr share in railway, yet no man could see a yard of finished railway in the settled portion of the district. We had had more than our share in harbor endowment, this being included in " everything," yet most settlers knew tbe Harbor Board tvill not have £50 at the bank atter paying current liabilities, and the works are not half finished. Language seems to lose its meaning when Major Atkinson speaks, and things are not what they seem. It is a mistake to suppose that the thickly settled portion of the district has no railway running through it, for Major Atkinson says "the Patea district has had more than its share of railway money." That being co, we must not trust our eyes, but blindly believe that we have more railway than we are entitled to, we have it, though this kind of railway may be visible only to tbe eye of faith.