THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1878.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2814, 20 February 1878, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1878.

The late Conference of Borough and County Councillors at Hamilton appears to have evoked a feeling of unanimity amongst all parties in Waikato regarding the advantages to be derived from the work the Conference was designed to promote. Not on any occasion before have the sovcral communities in Waikato been so directly appealed to to express their opinions on the subject of railway communication between their fine district and the Thames. Here the agitation has nearly extended over a decade, its birth being almost coincident with European settlement. In Waikato it has hitherto been regarded as amongst the probabilities of the future, not as a fact to be accomplished by persistent agitation. The Conference, however, has put the matter in a different light. The railway was thoroughly discussed in its social, commercial and legal aspects, and the preliminaries for the conference were arranged by the delegates in such an amicable way that there was a delightful unanimity of sentiment displayed at the formal Conference. A)I the members of Councils agreed as to the advantages to be derived from the railway, and, as far as the Thames Councillors had an opportunity of discovering, the people were not less sensible of the good to be derived from the connection of Waikato and Thames by means of railway communication. The resident member for Waipa, Mr Alfred Cox, also expressed his approval of the scheme, and promised that any matured scheme coming before the House should have his warm support. Jhe members in Conference assembled were agreed upon one important point, the necessity of an increase in the Government guarantee. Various suggestions were thrown out, which "embraced a proposal for the Government to construct the line, or to provide in some way for extra pecuniary assistance towards the construction of the line if undertaken by a company. The necessity of local bodies ascertaining the views of their constituents was recognised, and it was understood that such would be looked after, as also the procuring of funds to give effect to the resolutions passed at the Conference, and to memorialise the Government. is considered by those who took part in the Conference that, with the well known sentiments of the Premier on the question, the unanimity of the communities concerned, and the confidence of capitalists in the scheme, its success at no distant date is certain. The report of the Borough delegates, to be laid before the Council at its next meeting, is extremely satisfactory, and embodies more fully the points mdi" cated above.