CORRESPONDENCE

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 69, 27 September 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

Under no circumstances is the Editor responsible for the matter uontmnoii m correspondence.

(TO THIS KIUTOtt.) " Slaves fight tor what were bettor ea«<t aw.jy," The ch.iin th.it binds them, and a tyrant's swjiv ; But thry that fi»ht for freedom, wide rtake Tin; noblest cause mankind can have ut stake, Religion, virtue, truth, white'er wo call a blessing, frocclom is the pledge of all. 0 Liberty ! the prisoner's uleasing dream,. 0 * a o a «r « Place me where winter breathes his keenest And 1 will sing, if liberty be there. Cowper. Sin, — The petition to the Warden of our goldfield praying him to veto the letting of the tiamway by the Piako County Council for a term of five yews, should receive a widespread support. The object of the Government, when donating the tramway, was to secure to our gold field the cheapest carriage possible for the conveyance of one •juartz to the crushing power. And the spirit of the Warden's deed tr the Piako County Council is this : " Though I fix a maximum charge, I hope you will be able to make it considerably less than the limit imposed." Any figures so far obtained Irom the existing management, [ quice concur with the petition, eannofc indicate what the eh ir*es on the tra uway should be It must be admitted by any disinterested party that the tramway i» most imperfectly constructed, particularly as regards the incline grates. The position of t)e win ilasses is proof sufficient that the man who had them erected did not know wuat. he was about, but wanted to be reminded t.iat the wires were intended solely to lower and b ing up the trucks, and not to cut tiirou'rh rollers and a distance i"ito th«- sl<eperg and the vurta betwixt tuvjui. The ropes