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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 215, 11 April 1873, Page 6

TV"e observe that a. meeting of the resi-dents-in the Awamoko District ced, to tike into consideration the- best route' for the -Tramway from the main line to Awamoko;* 'The l line-, as-at present; proj ficte'd," 'runs' along the lower road—indeed the road itself,' ; so that no land will require to be purchased. There can be no doubt that the tramway will be ot immense benefit to the district, giving farmers means of easy and cheap transporfc.vfor.,their produce to the main iine, but- it is objected that the running of a locomotive along-side the road-track will ' frighten Jierses and be a serious detriment to the ordinary traffic. We no-not attach very much weight to this objection, as horses can be easily accustomed to steam traffic, and it'is clear that if the line be diverted; through.private property which will have to be purchased ; by the Grove rnment, the amount which will have to be paid for land to be acquired will by so •much .curtail the work, rhat is to say that the' amount to be paid for the land to be * run through will proportionately reduce the length. of lino. We. hope that the ■meeting, will take ~this, intot consideration, and throw noi obstacle. in.tlie way o,fcarrying out an invportantipublic work: ' Sir-Gr. Bowen,* in replying^at the farewell ball-given to .him by the citizens of ! A uckland, said —" It is at great consolation that..l' am able to leave the;colony in so prosperous a state as it now island' so different from what I found if five years ago. ' t)n tlip point," tlie Superintendent of.Otago, at one. of'the farewell dinners given to "us during bur tour through that Province,; made a capital hit. 1 He said that when the term of my office 1 should expire in Victoria,,l wbuld find this Co-lony-had so, greatly . progressed, that I would ask .to be /prortioted back to New Zealand.*! (Gheers and. laughters.) Such good fortune, ladies and gentlemen, if it be feasible, will not J)e -:objeql;ed to by L'idy Bowen or myself." "