CORREPONDENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 35, 9 February 1878, Page 3

CORREPONDENCE.

f Our correspondence column being open,, ao responsibility can be accepted m respect to opinions expressed by correßpondiertts.J

TO- THE- EDITOtt. Sib-,— l do not thirk that it woutd interest the public tohaYe"alongcorresyondeflce between "T. BlC" and rny^ self j tut "T.B.C.'* having- made an uncalled for attack upon- me, I must ask you to allow toe to make a short reply tohim: Of cpursei if B. a" con-, siders the- arguments used by me to be they miiist be so,, beyond q:U«s^ ;tion j and if he considers that it is an advantage ta have line of railway running along where {sic}; the whole /of our traffic is carried on*." that settles the jnatter b«it, apparently, they- do not find.it an advantage on the Hutt road, at least, if" tre may believe the account m the V-New Zealand Times" 1 of the . ?nd , inst., of Mrs Morgan's accident . caused"by the Eailway running parallel . %ith the road j neither, k it generally considered so. by Eailway companies outside New Zealand, or why do. they go to such expense to avoid 1 this very «vil,^ Again, if "T.8.C." had taken the trouble to read my last letter-before cutting it i»p so severely, he would have seen: that : I did not- retomaiend the of a Railway Station m a swamps". biit, on the contrary^ said v just above the swamp." With regardto his- insinuation that I own the fcrewery, 1 have only- to say that I neither own nor have an.y.pecHniary intereslih a single foot of land or a plank of building m. the Borough, and" that *T. 8. -;.C.'Miai probably followed; the custom of judging others fey himself:My only' object' m writing;+was to. try to have removed the dangerou-s absttrdiity of h*?jihg- a Railway Station m the middlie of' the. Sqinare,. and 1 a railway line running through th^ centre- of ' themain street of" the- town. M^^thepuftßi^ W T^B.C; >> - means v . 'himself^."' 1 for-on* am glad' that 1 have sot '•' recommendted l my«el(f-to him, m my late attempt"" as the only way apparently to do so would betojadyocate his private f iews, and; to ,q^£?i>\wskisi^^^—Ti am; &c.w , : ;' : '' " '■''■ ■,"'■.. -..V; : " : .■ ". ' ; . TiffOißO.uaHj. -P;S:^T hope that "-T. B. G"' doesuot. mean "To ße Continued."" 1 Patmerston Norths Feb.. 6th,. 187&