New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1877.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5068, 21 June 1877, Page 2

New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1877.

The decision arrived at by the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, regarding the proposal of Government to connect the* railway with the Queen's wharf, instead of building a special railway-wharf, is only what all sensible people expected ; but is none the less satisfactory, as it effectually disposes of the attempts made to get up a divided opinion on the subject, and will show tho Lyttelton Times how utterly foolish it was when it tried to discuss the question at issue. Misled by a correspondent to whom mendacity seems to be meat and drink, and confident in an additional inherent ignorance, our Christchurch contemporary was good enough to tell the mercantile men of Wellington that they were wrong, when in fact they were wholly right. In a recent issue of the New Zealand Times the simple facts of the case were plainly stated, and it is not now necessary to repeat them. Though contradicted at the time, they were none the less accurate, and merely represented tho opinions of all capable of forming an unprejudiced or sensible opinion on tho subject. Thoy wero repeated, and in many respects put with more force, by soveral speakers yesterday, and at last, as a matter of fact, the objections to tho proposed reclamations narrowed themselves down to this, that it would bo dangerous for vessels to lie alongside of an unprotected breastwork. With that reservation, no one denied that Hie berths in front of tho reclamation would bo quito as safe as, if not safer than, those at tho outer T of the Queen's Wharf. The explanation that the reclaimed land would bo fronted by a structure of the nature of a wharf some 20ft. in width, at once did away with tho objection; and the meeting decided in favor of what was best for the general interests of Wellington. Wo aro not anxious to say much more on this matter, seeing that as a matter of fact the opposition raised outside tho Chamber was a worthless one, and that raised inside it was through honest perhaps, but decidedly mistaken ideas. It is gratifying to note, howevor, that tho Wellington Chamber of Commerco is capablo of , fulfilling in the best sense of the words the objects of such an institution. No one looking at the numbers and Btanding of thoso present yesterday could doubt their efficiency to give '

an opinion on the question at issue, and the discussion which took place on that question was interesting and exhaustive. It now remains for the committee to see that the result of Mr. Walter Johnston's resolutionbeingcarried should be given speedy effect to. We may add a word as to certain remarks made by Mr. Krull, which it would be well for some members to consider. In homely language, we may say that he advocated the adoption in principle of the plain old proverb that it is best to wash dirty linen at home. He was quite right. Had the three or four gentlemen, members of the Chamber of Commerce, who constituted themselves into a deputation to the Government, been content to have taken the opinion of the Chamber first, they would not only have saved themselves some small amount of trouble, but would have failed to give an apparent color to the utterances of those writers in Wellington who for some occult reason oppose everything and anything that other people propose, and would not have enabled newspapers at a distance, such as the Lyttelton Times, to quote the actions of Wellington merchants and business men in support of their ideas.