MR LUMSDEN AND THE RAILWAY COMMISSION.

Southland Times, Issue 682, 12 June 1867, Page 2

MR LUMSDEN AND THE RAILWAY COMMISSION.

(TO XHE EDITOB OPTSE'SOOTHI.A.irp IESIB8). "' Sir,— To rate up an incident , -of tiie late session of Council — I cannot but express myO surprise,: • eyeir; allowing for wTiat blind party-spirit can do, at Mr LumsdenV abusing the~" Railway o.9mm^ssibn'Ordmance," a measure which ~ an' unbiassed outsider ccarn r only 1 look -upon with satisfaction, as tending to gain '*tn§" pvlblic confidence '.in the management of th'egreat woi'ks- of the province:" '"Does" j IVDr •lhimsden think it a pity to takevfroin pfu^fcure Executives all chance of " doing a little business ?" We knowthatimen in 7 office feel differently from men in opposition — they belong; to a 7 different class.I jlo not mean to insinuate thjajb"HisTpro"pdsal for " a minister of 'works *' had any selfish elements in it though we all acknowledged his experience in the works oE clocks and watches. c Still he does put himself in .an invidiqns light before ?the publip .by :his opposition" to sucK "^ measure,— one which shows great-' disinterestedness, as. welKsis absence of vanity in the men l who freely 1 offered it to the" Council, ■ supposing it.; j w6uld- prefer -a' permanent : Board .of: respected ness, men to g-n r eyerjchanging Executive Council, constituted sometimes ejeri like, the present. Eor Mr LumsdenV own sake I. do a little (very little) regret it, fop I believe him to ; be 'an honest irian in' his trade::! don't Hhink. he would -take; the works put of a watch'leftinhis hands to put into another j. because " they were better, and therefore his abusing a measurer intended^ to prevent all jpqssibi- | lity or suspicion of jobbery, leaving-lum. only one of the two -wellrknown alternatiye_s,_we will give .him. the benefit_of _the_ most innocent, and make it— 4he fqol. I aih, Sir, . ' ."..'. . . An "Obs^eyee. .