OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

Manawatu Herald, 1 October 1878, Page 2

OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

(From our own Correspondent.)

BRANCH RAILWAY TO CUiEYTOW.

Our Wairarapa friends have again been agitating for railway extension to Greytown. Meetings were held in the district, a committee appointed, all sorts of active measures taken, and as the great consummation of all their plans, an influential deputation armed with the customary petijtion, waited on the Minister for I Public Works, and were successful in their pleadings. So, after all, Greytown, the oldest settlement in the Valley, is to enjoy the benefits of railway communication. PAL3IEBSTON GOODS SHED. Your member, too, has been busy over a new goods shed for Palmerston, which the Government baa agreed to provide, fully admitting the reasonableness of the request. POSTAGE RATES. As I predicted, the Government would not give way to a reduction in the rates of postage, as Dr Hodgkinson desired. It was elicited during the discussion which arose, that the reduction of the inter-colonial rate from 3d to 2d had not proved very tentouragiug. ■ IIARBOR BILLS. j There was a wail in the House a , | few nights since, when Mr Sheehan ; informed honorable members that the ', Government would oppose all Harbor ! Endowment Bills! Bat no other cour.se "was open to the nment, as if every pokey little inlet on our extensive seabourd. was to be endowed with 100,000 or 200,000 acres of laaJ, Mr Maeaudrow would Lave to devise some other soueine to pay ior I his railways, as there would, very j soon be no land loft. | TUIKNSIA.L r.VKLIAMEXTS. i Our Legislators have thrown out the Trieuai.il^ Parliaments Bill. They do not soo the iorce of placing ! their seats at the disposal of their I Constituents ovfery three years, lest too great an interest should be taken by the electors in^thc actions <£-th&&^-

.Representatives

TE ARO RECLAMATION.

Our Te Aro Beelimation Bill seems doomed for another session, ie has been pronounced a " private Bill," and as the necessary formalities have not been observed, it must of necessity lapse, unless the House will agree to the suspension of the standing orders in this case, to allow of its being gone on with ; and this I am afraid is hardly likelj .

DRAINAGE QUESTION.

! A drainage war is waging here. ! Mr Climie makes plans and proposals, I and the eminent Mr Clark conies in, and, as Mr Climie puts it, re-arranges them under the head of " Clark's Scheme." Mr Climie now attacks this re-arrangement fiercely, declare ing that nearly every alteration is for the worse, to say nothiug of the cost being doubled. And to cro«vn all Mr J. C. Crawford, who owns the sandy wilderness on to which it is proposed to discharge the sewerage, demands the modest little sum of £40,000 for the portion the Corporation requires ,• uud the City Solicitor advises that, if any nuisance is created, the adjaceuc owners will4iave sub* stantial claim for damages. tho prospect is not altogether a happy3| one. « STEAit HOLLER.^ 1 Councillor Divor wants to obtaiu j a steam roller for improving our streets, but our City Fathers wouldn't have it, and well for the poor WeL lingtoniaus too, if all that wo hear is correct. One of the Councillors read ari extract from a scientific journal which showed that these engines of destruction actually crush the iron gos and water pipes that may be embedded in tho 'roads, and inflict similar damage on the sewei^^The a Chroniclo says, that the^ noise^ifc J makes nearly wakes the dead, anjM completely distracts the living, an^| that during the time one was i^H operation in Dunedin, there we^H more suicides than occurred durii^H the previous ten years, that it cou^H now be bought for a song, and tb^H the Christchurch one hits been se^H to the museum. May we be eav^H from steam rollers !