RAILWAY MATERIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 4140, 3 June 1876, Page 3

RAILWAY MATERIAL.

To the Editor. !

* railway contracts jobbery question has been exposed in your coliunna bi lasi evening by your coriesponddht''-‘‘A.Z.”‘, Thfcre J are other matters upon 1 which’ hehas not abbuT the Ibcomotives now being turned eut»t >thes. factory of one of the-favored-firms,- one ofwhich was tried' on Chalmers jrnUWay about: three Or four weeks ago ? There is an ugly feature not yet noticed in; motive business—to wit, nearly one half of the work Whs importedfor the’same)showing clearly-, that (the work has been cut out for the special benefit of a iavtored firm i ; ‘Now» 1 ask, is this ?' ; Can it be called Colonlib industry ? I think not. " All this .sort of Government favoritism affects the interest, and in .a "more direct ,way those -who ape in the trade. * ' It appears byth e charges in the letter of “ A.Z,;? that hive sent both toEnglatuPand Australia 'iot' large Orders of railway plant. I speakf .considerable experience in Anstralia, and know what ; and 1 am-sure that my statement will be borne outby allnuprejudiced minds thafanthe tradesmen of Tmn. edin 'are (juite 'capable of producing railway plant of oUr neighbors oyer the water.- ' '* '.

considerable number 7 01, good tradesmen—bfot nCw arrivals —at present dni, of employment. God help both old and new “ praCnF Government is nearly defunct 1 - and let ns hope for better times when the General Governments shall have taken* fnU cmnmand of our political bafijue.—l am, tc., s ' ~ ' ' Tempos Omkia. Rkvelat. Dunedin* Juno |.: \ ; f . cprrespomient must t excuse. -thee excision fpfcerJain portions of his lettertending to implicate ,an v officer in the Givil Secvicaia this jnthe first place, by the rules of r ifchu Service he cannot defend bimelf i ajw ipi tho ;secondi the chiefj Iblamelin the if any, necessarily pests on an Executive who sanctioned it.— En. - o -.