The Oroua Valley Route

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 72, 29 May 1884, Page 2

The Oroua Valley Route

We learn from unofficial sources that Mr Rochfobt will arrire in Feilding either to-morrow or next day, to commence the exploration of the Oroua Valley Route for the Central Railway. A party of his men have been in town for two or three days. As Mr Rochtobt is not yet actually on the spot, or started at the work, we will not congratulate ourselves on the success attending our persistent efforts to obtain this act of justice from the Go* vernment. " Hope deferred maketh the heart sick," and we haye becomo weary of the continued procrastination, so much so as almost to be indifferent whether the long made promise be kept or not. We have a feeling that our citizens have been too " lone suffering and alow to wrath/ or too confiding. This good nature or forbearance arises in a great measure from the fact that they are honorable in themselves, and consequently dilatory in believing in the bad faith of any man, and especially when that man has the honor (o be a Minisier of the Crown. We should take example of our Palmerston brethren in all future eases. When they want anything which will, in their belief, tend to the good of that borough or district, no stone is left unturned to attain their ends. When a member or a Mimtter makes them a promise they do not leave it to him as to whether he shall keep it or not. They (virtually) hold him by the throat until the promised work is done. Wem Feilding appear to prefer waiting for the sky to fall to catch our sparrows.