The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1891.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 69, 8 December 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1891.

It is a matter for congratulation: on the part of settlers in this district, that the Minister for Public Works has decided to call tenders for th& Te Aro Railway Extension. The terminus at present is very inconvenient because passengers are really left at the outskirts of the city to find their way into the centre the best way they can on foot, or be charged exorbitant rates by the ,eab4rivers. This extension will, it is to be hoped, bring still more prominently before the eyes of the Government, as well as the travelling public, the urgent necessity which has been patent to everyone on this coast for several years for the State to acquire the Wellington and Manawatu Railway. The New Zealand Times of yesterday takes a very common sense view of the position taken up by the majority of the newspapers in respect of the Ministry, and says : — " It is a flattering unction to the souls of Ministers that the newspapers of New Zealand are in a sort of conspiracy in favour of monopoly. The newspapers generally, as Mr Reeves pointed out in his rueful complaint on Thursday night, do not happen to have taken up the Government, which has only the Lyfctelton Times, the Napier Evening News, and the Dunodin Globe at its back. But it hardly follows that because the bulk of the press is against the Government, therefore its is in favour of monopoly." After quoting cases where reforms have been opposed, but afterwards successfully carried, our contemporary says that because of this it does not follow that all suggested reforms aro necessarily good, from the mere fact of their being resisted by intelligent people, although the profeseors of novelty are apt to claim that the newest is always the truest and the best, thereby perverting unfairly a historic truth to their own use. There is another historic truth which is often ; forgotten because it is old and its ex- ' pression trite. It is that people who aim at the same object often try to reach it by different roads. The newspapers dislike monopoly as much as the Government can possibly do. They represent, however, that section of public opinion which prefers to attain its object without injuring the public credit by breaking faith with individuals, and unsettling the basis of security on which investment must rest. Hence the difference between the newspapers at large and the Government. Tjje following additional by-law for the New Zealand Railways has boon gazetted: — "No auimal or animals shall trespass on a railway open for traffic, or any part thereof j and, if any animal or animals is or are found so trespassing, the owner thereof shall be deemed to have committed a

breach of ; thiss by- lawf'abd shall be liable, for such, breach r to a penalty not exceeding £10. the liability of any person to a penalty under th.w ..By-law, • any officers of the Commissioners, or any police constable, or any other person, may impound any animal or animals that may be found so trespassing as aforesaid, and liable by law to be impounded, The by-law made by the Commissioners or the' 2Bth day of November 1890 if now revoked." This mformatior should be accepted as a warning, and be acted upon by owners of stock run nig on unfenced lands near the rail way line.