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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1666, 24 March 1886, Page 2

is übihg m. for a policy^ "Qn,the 2ndj in'stahf"a. cpnfcract was sij^nefl^f or $he construction; a line ifr^^^ "to Groexpppgh, a distance of 280 mUes.x [for :£BppippO/./ f Gjo^ernorj" T]£fpohaeV >p n turning the first sod, sai'd"thVt' tliere jnra^ every reason to hope.. % thafc ...the ..railway woGldiTjefinished^ahd opened ai4he iexpiratioa ot three years. Six huDdwd. miles of railway were now m hand, kndJ the' progress of ; the. \ works- : '-would j be watched. wjth liiterest; by the neighboring. colonies. ] ' •' 'The : -Tiiriard Herald publishes jfpr general information a little correspond^ ehce'which took place between 'the t)is -.; trict Engineer, Ch'ristchurchj and : one of. the 'i unemployed." "The Engineer sent thisuiani A; Fraser, a kind note request-; ing bim to call at his office with, a view to getting; emplbyment on some of -the public, works, on 1 a "certain' day and hour; .He a reply from the l ! un^da-; ployed " man of a most insulting chjaft, acter, the precise meaning of which it Is difficult' to -understand. It is plain, however, that he only wants work j .of suclv a" kind as may be agreeable to'ln'mV /sielf.- /.;r.:^/.,sj,'.V/'v ; '"v ' I ■:' ""'lt would appeaT that Sir Rowland HjllfWas-af ter^all not the, inventor of Ithe ; paring postage sysfcein,' o>-at any, ( fate jiot< of the adhesive stamps which rendered . that system possible. A Mr Patrick Chalmer»i of Dundee, "has, according: to the>h}oal -4 dvf,ttiser^ published a pamphlet m whicn tiri claims tine nonoV; o£,jin>; venting the adhesive stamps for his .f^l^'^iiteS^rjCialmeM.; ;He. -asserts that Mr Chalmers made known: his invention to Rowland Hill soine months- Wfjbre.;tbat geptlenun brought it 6ut*as'nis*owri. ' "However triis may !be, it is still true that to Sir Rowland Hill , belongs 'the '■'. honor : of .initiating the penny postage arid adhesiv* stamp system j although it certainly sduieWhat detracts from his fame to know that he did but-appropriate and carry into effect another man's idea, f ■■ <-■ i s --