MR SHEEHAN AT WANGAREI.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1540, 25 January 1879, Page 3

MR SHEEHAN AT WANGAREI.

[By Telegraph.] Auckland, January 24. Mr Sheehan was banquetted at Wangarei last night. In responding to his health, Mr Sheehan referred to what ho had said in tho morning. He said he had no intention of making a political speech. He did not think it advisable to introduce matters at a public dinner which might lead to differences between parties. He would confine himself to matters concerning the north of Auckland. He said he had not visited the district for ten years. There werejjjgood land and mineral resources, the extent and value of which now residents were not able to calculate. It was a fine country, and was scarcely known in the south. He was pleased to find that the pteamers trading north of Auckland were doing well, and could now run without a Government subsidy. He said he was dubious as to the success of the northern railway, as some went in for roads, some for railways. He advised them to continue on one common platform, and make a combined effort to obtain all they were justly entitled to. If they wished to compete with the south they must have a railway. Mr Sheshan in concluding, said he expected to be in Wangarei shortly, when he would stay three or four days. He intended to visit the whole of the North, and would then enquireinto the nature of the proposals to bo made by the people next session. He hoped their proposals would be reasonable and temperate. He would charge the people to ask for something under rather than over, else their case might bo damaged. He hoped they would not ask for such an absurd thing as half a million of money, as had been suggested elsewhere. He felt quite sure if the claims were moderate, members of the House would find very great difficulty in refusing. He said it was a great pleasure to know that he was hold in such esteem by people living in Buch a remote part of the colony. Before leaving he would endeavor to squeeze the purse to assist Bome road making in the district by Native labor. He had not much at his disposal, but he believed it did much good employing Native labor on roads. He wished their railway success, and it would develop that land, which he was given to understand was of such u nature that it would greatly promote the prosperity of tho district. Mr Sheehan was cheered as he resumed his Beat.