DUNEDIN.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3028, 29 October 1878, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Monday.

The tramway system in and about Dunedin is about to be offered to the public in the form of a company, the promoters getting £20,C30 for their rigbta. 230 tons of stone from the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company has yielded 2930zs of geld. Sir J, Vogel, replying to the Mayor's congratulatory telegram re the opening of the railway, says :— " I am greatly pleased that the work has been completed which links together cities with so grand a destiny before them ts Dunedin and Christchurch have a • right to expect. When I think of what they were when I first knew them, a few years since, and consider their present position, the wildest dream of their future progress could scarcely exceed the reality of their past advancement to those who, like myself, look upon the towns of New Zealand as merely adjuncts to the requirements and development of the country districts. It is especially gratifying to know that the prosperity of Dunedin and Christchurch is not artificial, but that their progress has literally kept pace with, and denoted the progress of, districts of which and to which they are outlets. Their connection by iion roads must greatly aid the producing and commercial industries of cities themselves, and of districts which separate them, and I am at a loss to imagine the heartiness with which their union must have been celebrated at the banquet, of which you? telegram tells me. Whilst I share with you all satisfaction which the completion of the work has occasioned, I have to thank your thoughtful kindness for special and not to be exaggerated pleasure, which the knowledge has brought to me, that, in the midst of your-rejoicings, you have found time to think of one so far away, and to credit him with a share in the result. Public life entails much anxiety and care, not a few sacrifices, but the memory of one and the reality of the other are lost in the reward which a public man feels he has received when he is honored with the approbation of those in whose service he has labored. Your telegram brought to me this reward, and has exceedingly rejoiced me."