A MODEST REQUEST.

Manawatu Herald, 12 February 1889, Page 2

A MODEST REQUEST.

The report of the appointment, of the Railway Comniissiocaera and of; the undisputed will possessed by the chief of th.cin r has led some residents of Buunythorpe to imagine that Mr M'Kerrow had been appointed dictator to the colony. It: is •« pity that it is not so, and we ieej we . shall at any rate have the sympathy of thes*, three gentlemen »in: ;^^hit regrets. Trusting: th, r atthe3j[.,raight get set right a little political arrangement that was effected a fW years ago, they forwarded a petition to J. 0. M'Kerrow, Esq., Chief Commissioner of New Zealand Railways, in which they pray him to^ obtain the junction of the East and West Coast lines of railway "at Bunnjthdrpe instead of Palmerston, because it is cheaper to, make, the distance is less, and, in ■ their opinion o; ib 6 lilrt from Ashurst to Bunnythorpe waa only altered to Palmeraton;' «o*fch by the present Government ia^he interest of thsi Manawatii Railway' Company and the smailtowiiof 'Palmetstoa Nortk," and as they •"• ask ioi justice ":' they do not think' it neieefldary. to •. append many , signatures. These' m^ist ■. be intensely t^gioiis individuals, who believe in statement that, by xaith, mountajpecan be moved, but they haVe & 'smack of fhe worldling about them to, as instance the explanation 'giftajt 1 i6i 'Hit p^auoity of mxnati«res; aid fhe^nasty kaook to .'? tfte Bmttll tow^i o^ ; Pilmerstoßj North."' Are there, aiiy; ; more. re»id«ais.v;a(t; Bunnyth'6rpe titan -these petitioners,?