The Patea Mail. (Published Wednesdays and Saturdays) SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1878.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 326, 1 June 1878, Page 2

The Patea Mail. (Published Wednesdays and Saturdays) SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1878.

The Wanganui Chronicle has been speaking straight as to delay on part of Government in not pushing, on with railway works on this coast, and commenting on apparent indifference of the settlers at Wanganui and in the several townships, with the view of getting up an agitation. The Herald in replying Bays —“ The Waitotara extension is one of the most pressing of the public works of. the colony, but can we expect that a great question of colonial can be governed hy so local a want ? This insensate raving afcwhst canndt be helped is as useless as it is ridiculous.” The

Chronicle returns to the charge, and approvingly reprints resolutions passed by Waver ley settlers, as per. our last issue. The following extracts from Waverley corresponclent’s'letter, intended for last issue, but which unfortunately did not arrive until Wednesday afternoon, will show that some of the Waverley settlers feel very warm on the subject, and will not be inclined to endorse the Herald ideas: —The proceedings were opened by an able speech by Mr W. Milne, who enlarged on the great advantages that must accrue from the completion of the railway through the county, and concluded, by moving to the effect that, with a view to expediting the same., it would be advisable that two or more delegates be appointed to proceed to Wellington to interview the.Government, and set fortlrthe necessity of prosecuting the railway works through the district with as little delay as possible, Mr Ken ah spoke strongly in favour of Mr Milne’s motion, averring that delegates were necessary, as our representatives evidently were not inclined to trouble their heads much about the matter, and that any memorial that might be entrusted to them would probably find its way into the waste paper basket. He also stated that it was bis intention to get up an agitation, if possible, against the-shilling rate, for the simple reason that he wished to see the roads become a “bog hole,” and thus t{ force the Government to make a railway,” it being, in the speaker’s opinion, cheaper to make a railway than to reclaim a bog.