THE MEETING AT THE THEATRE.
To the Editor.
Sir,- That the meeting in the Theatre last night was a great failure no one can deny. The attendance was small, the enthusiaism still less, and the innocence of representation on the platform of our leading merchants so conspicuous that the small Scintillation from the firm in Princes street south only made the want more noticeable. A rabid opposition to the Government and the railvt ay policy was the motive power, and this madness had its concentration on the head of the Superintendent, who is the author of all evil in the estimation of our “nncoguid.” What the first two resolutions proposed were undeniable facts, and eudorsable by every citizen. The failure of the meeting Arose from the fact that everything was being dope in the dark-no reliable information on ppy point. The idea of such a meeting, on such a question, with such information shows
how easily the would-be leaders of popular opinion in Dunedin can be gulled by one of the multitude of contributions to the leading columns of the Daily Times, open at any moment to the ravings of those affected by the anti Vogel-Macandrow mania. But the best result of this meeting has been to show who inspired the article in the Times. The cloven foot, in all its hideous deformity, came out very plain, and the reflective ask themselves can such a state of things endure much longer ? The man who could declare that he came to the meeting unprepared, wants but one step to land him in a “shale deposit,” from which only a birch rod, rapidly applied by an expert, should be used to bring him to a sense of honor and honesty. The citizens of Dunedin r-nd the Province believe Dunedin to be the natural centre on which the railway system and its concomitants should radiate, and w'hen any attempt is made to direct such a result, then, and not till then, will a united and deter mined effort bo made to thwart such a procedure.—l am, &c., Jas. M‘lndob. Dunedin,. August 22,
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Evening Star, Issue 3279, 23 August 1873, Page 3
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349THE MEETING AT THE THEATRE. Evening Star, Issue 3279, 23 August 1873, Page 3
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