CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 188, 22 January 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Under no circumstance is the Editor responsible for the matter contained in correspondence. (to the editor.) Sir, — If the rumour be true that Government purpose to deprive us of our telegraph communication and transfer the postal department to the charge of some storekeeper or other here, it cannot be received with apathy by my fellow-towns • men, more especially in the face of increased requirements and facilities being absolutely necessary in the fresh impetus about to be given on so extensivo a scale, to our mining interests by private enterprise, instead of, like our neighbours at Thames, constituting our mining interest, into a big pump on public funds. Even in accordance with present requirements wo have a right to demand, instead of receiving as a mean and beggarly concession that our rights be retained as they are ; and if that can only be done by coin parative need, I am very sure that telegraphic facilities ought to cease at many places in the colony, before Waiorongo mai. I would not hazard the surmise that it is a step towards throwing this portion of the line into private hands, yet what more within the range of possibility than for a private party to by and bye come forward and say to the telegraph department, " You have wires to Waiorongomai hanging idle and working apparatus com plete, you say you cannot afford to work the line for the public good, now wo indivi*dually cannot do without direct tele-

graph with Auckland, and therefore, will lease it from you and give the outside public some use of the wires." Supposing this to actually occur, and the contractoi be interested in mme I*,1 *, don't you think it would tend to dummify all secrecy in connection with telegrams relating to other mines, — that it would, is the bolief of Your's, etc., Waiorongomai. Waiorongomai, Jan. 21st, 1887.