THE SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1265, 8 April 1878, Page 3

THE SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY.

(Dunedin “ Star,” April 2 ) If the Ministry are n it careful they will me-t tae fate of Actaeon, who, the fd-le says, was devoured bv his own pack Already there are signs o'" trouble in the air, and people are beginning to ask why this or that promise remains in the category of unredeemed pledges, The ‘Morning Herald,” generally ministerial, though occasionally somewhat vague in principles, and the “ Clutha Leader,” whi ffi ofteu loses itse’f in admiration of the superlative qualities of the Premier and his colleagues, h*ve lately come out wi h wholesome and vigorous articles, in which they call attention to the dilatoriness with which the work of the falclutha and Clinton se ition of the Main s outh Rail way is being carried on, and plainly hints that the overnment h r reasons best known to themselves.are not keeping toe c -ntractors up to the mark The 1 cal papers are all up in arms, and the “ C ulha header” asseits that past exper enee leads t • the conviction that any remonstrance on the subject will prove u ava ling and that “gross ami open partial!'y is believed to exis'- ” It appears indeed from all accounts that, if energetic action is not taken by the mercantile c mmunity, and real pressure br ught to bear upon the overnment the line will not be completed for two or three years, nor indeed then or ever at the present rate of progr ss. ! his is a matter of serious import to Dunedin, and one wh eh admits'of no delay, unless we are p epa ed to see the traffic of a large portion of the interior pe-manently divested from the Port This will be probably of more immediate inter-st to the citizens than all the blessings which are to flow from the development of the olitieal theories of the rem er. aid they will be inclined to agree with the poet : For forms of Government let fools contest, Whate er is he t admii'L pred is V>p«t