THE WANGANUI HERALD AND OURSELVES.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 489, 7 January 1880, Page 2

THE WANGANUI HERALD AND OURSELVES.

Till'; Wanganui Herald of Saturday Inst, commentiny on :m article which recently appeared in these columns with reference to Wanganui River being the natural ontlri ior our trade, says : “ The friendly rivalry of districts, towns, or ports, is a sentiment evidently unknown to such people as give forth their lucubrations in the leading columns of the Patka Maii;, which journal peevishly takes ns to task for some remarks we lately made on the extension of the railwny on this coast. The only poi nt we care to notice is the insinuation tfiat wc wish to injure the port of Carlyle, by advocating the construction of the railway in a particular way. So far. irom this, however, being our wish, wo Iva’ve never viewed otherwise than with.jdvor the improvements which are beb.ig made, in the Patea ri ver.(?; On the dvoiuiesl grounds we can safely indulge tfiU generous sentiment, believing that fir [he general prosperity the people, of Wanganui must he participators, P>r,f dow about the Patka Mail ? Has tljH gracious member of the fourth estat gb.-en ioval and true even to its own locality t The most narrowminded local bigot in the colony is perhaps the mr.nber for Lginont, Ail his powers ba.ve boon directed to prune,te New P)'/Aon tb and its ocean-bound harbour. Not a single tiling lias be dune fur Pvi'ba, but what ho has been cumpelhvd* i,u jit I lie point of the bayonet, wb.iki the man to whom all the credit is doc tor rim li:n Oui in i j ,r,, v< ~,,.-1,,:w!,., tias been the brains of the place, was abused, misrepresent'd, and (moused at the last election as if be had h“tm the greatest enemy of the district. It looked very much like black-hearted tieachwy to the interests of Paten for its local representative in the Press to be supporting the Major/and opposing Mr Sherwood, with the Knowledge it had of the respective actions of these gentlemen. Such conduct deserves a Nemesis, and it well be strange indeed if the ides of March do not living the avenger. As for the M.ajor the people of Patea will have their eyes opened before the next election to him. The old cordiality between Wanganui and Patea will be restored when the Piymonthil.es have retired within their own contracted circle.”

[For fear very few in the County will have a chance of knowing what a champion they have in the Wanganui Herald, is our only excuse for giving publicity to the above.]