THE WELLINGTON – FOXTON RAILWAY.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 97, 3 December 1879, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON - FOXTON RAILWAY.

Unb)3B the above title_Qiir Foxton contemporary has ground out a leader of a column and a half to prove that peace, plenty, and prosperity will be the result of the Wellington line touching at Foxton. "W"e have so repeatedly shown the absurdity of the statements reiterated by our .contemporary, that we d° n °t care to reprint our utterances upon the matter, tne more especially as the result is now m the hands of the surveyprs, and all the gra«4 illusions dilated upon will not weigh one jot with the Government*. As a test value, however, of all our contemporary's raptures, we wish to reproduce the following from the mass.of verbiage by which it is surrounded : — Why, by^ the time the country on the east bant of the Maiiawatu River has 2000 people upon it, South Manawatu will most certainly have trebled its population. Its resources warrant that assertion. Coo], cool, Sir. ; refreshingly cool ! Foxton w&s a. township fifteen years before Palrqerston, F/ejldjng, or Halcombe had ever been dreamt, let alone heard qf, and at the present time they can boast oE a populatiqn four times that of Foxton ; and. whije all sorts- of glqoray prognostications are iv store for the country" on the east b,ank of tfye Manawatu Eiver, we are caltnly told that South ]Vlanawatu will treble its population. Facts are stubborn th,m^|; ancl a country with a good pont and railway to it, whose progress, to use a paradox, ha.s been stationary for quarter of a century, will require something more than the visit of another engine tq convert; s^nd into, land, unless it usn f^nd a people h,aye 4is.ao,vei!ed t!ie secret of subsisting npqn stones. .