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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 30, 19 February 1879, Page 2

So much for Foxton' s leader; now ipr Foxton logic. I have thrown the Herala's'i last leader into a crucible, and skimmed' the ] following sentence from the mass of froth by which it was encircled, giving it as a Unique specimen of logic from a Southernstandard. Your- logical lover and local leader says m referring to the West Coast Railway :—-" Would he then (meaning thej editor, of The Times), force Horowhenua' ; mUler3 to send their, timber sixty miles to Wellington, when they have a port- ten. 'miles away ?" Can any one imagine a more fatal admission. Sandon and Carnarvon will be utterly ruined unless the .Wel- r lington. railway reaches Foxton, so that they will be able, to send their produpe to the capital by the line : but Horowhenua, which, is twelve, pot .ten, miles nearer to Welling- 1 ton must not do the same, but send its' freight back to Foxton tbhe thence -sent by t 'sea. If Horowhenua- will not be allowed : to. utilise the line, unless for a retrograde movement,; so as to return to Foxton, I ask I will Sandon and Carnarvon pass by the port, I. and send thin* produce; through by rail. If that be so, tben why compel Horowhenua /to!use the port ; but if iijpt, 'and thep6rt"is to. be. the outlet; of its-produce, of what avail will the Wellington Jipe be; theiarr. -mer. of South Manawatu, ?". Lowe forever, it bothered my grandmother, and she was clever."