OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 35, 27 December 1878, Page 2

OUR WELLINGTON LETTER.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. CHINESE IMMIGRATION. Our Anti-Chinese feeling haa been developing itself of late, and a few nights since a well attended meeting was held in the Athenanim. HaU to consider tho question. Of course the decision arrived at was that the Chinese were not desirable colonists and that steps should be taken to prevent their continued influx. A petition to Parliament will probably be got up, which, judging from Ministers' excuses for non-attendance, read at tho mooting, should receive all the weight of Government advocacy. Mr Balance adopted an exceedingly common-sonso view of the case. He said, in offect, that wo were spending hundreds of thousand! of pounds in introducing immigrants of a desirable class from the old country, and all tho while we were liable to be inundated by hordes of the lowest order of moa under Heaven, unless steps wore taken to prevent it. TIIORNDON RECLAMATION. Now that the reclamation is finished, the Government aro taking steps to sell part of it by public auction, and the salo is already advertised to take place in Fobruary. This land is of course very valuable property, and considerable interest will bo felt in the forthcoming sale Some little jealousy has manifested itself amongst the auctioneers in town over tho selling of this land, nearly all the Government business being given to one man, and such a sale as this one is worth having. I RAILWAY STATION SITE. This pending salo, by the way, has rather aroused Wellingtoninns. Wo wore under the impression that at least a passenger station site would bo reserved on tho land, even if the goods station remained where it now is. It is very well known i that an excellent plan for a terminus was prepared by the late ISngineer-iu-Chiof, covering about 25 acres, oxtonding from Mills' Foundry to the proseut station, and including a railway wharf, siding to Queon's Wharf, and other modern accessories. All this now appears to havo boon forgotton in favor of laying out tho whole in building sites. Tho Chamber of Commerce has hold a mooting, and remonstrated with tho Goverumont, tho City Council has followed suit, and a lai'go public mooting has appointed an inlluontiul deputation to interview the Government on tho matter ; so wo aro full of hope that this unanimity of fooling will bring about a good result. Considering what tho Christohurch, Dunodin, and Auckland , station enlargements have cost, and j are costing, the Government, one would think that they would bo rotidy to learn from experience, and lay out the Wellington station on a j sniUoietitly large soalo now :hat they I have the land in their own hands. Twenty -live acres would not bo tin iueh too large, viewed in tho light of om rapiitly-inereasing trade.