TRAMWAY.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 10, 18 October 1871, Page 2

TRAMWAY.

To the Editor of the TUAiIES GUARDIAN. Sir, —How is it that in Graliamstown everything in the shape of public works is conducted on a pigmy scale, making a visitor, like myself, imagine at the first view that lie lias fallen upon a second Lilliput. What on earth arc you going to do with the tramway some good folks arc making between Tararu and Grahamstown. Do you suppose that you can convey hugh quantities of quartz to upper Tararu for the purpose of being crushed by means of such a flimsy line as that to be worked on by locomotives ? Then what about its proximity to the main road. I should not like to drive a horse of any spirit along it, with a train in motion near me. The road steamer in Auckland caused a lively sensation amongst the Itosinanter’s of that city, and the same would follow hero. What a satire upon common sense arc your tiny water pipes, staring imbecillically at you out of the mud." Do you imagine for one moment that they' arc of sufficient magnitude to supply the wants of your present largo and, no doubt, increasing population —leaving your household requirements out of the question. Why don’t you secure a supply as would enable ymu, m the event of fire occurring amongst your crowded wooden houses, to make some head against it. I am glad I have no Fire Insurance Company shares. What a stupeduous private public work is your Graliamstown wharf, erected on quasi wooden lucifer match piles, and looking as if a gossamer falling foul of it would shatter it like a house built of cards. Could you not take warning by the fate of its Tararu brother, and put up something more substantial? It has at least one merit, and that is that if it stands it will be useful; and be it understood, that I do not attack the contractor for constructing such a puny work, I simply fall foul of the system which leads to the production of inadequate public contrivances. That dreadful post-office ; situated at the uttermost end of the earth. What can be urged in its extenuation? How can you rest supine under this infliction? Job would look foolish beside you. I reserve one or two evil matters in which I have noticed your long suffering—especially in a Caledonian and Otago point of' view—for a future note. —I am, &c., ' “ Spectrum,”