OUR RAILWAY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3493, 5 March 1880, Page 2

OUR RAILWAY.

(To the Editor of Hie Evening Star.)

Sir, —In looking over this morning's Advertiser, I see a short letter recom* mending the calling of a public meeting to discuss the railway questioD, and I, who have travelled over and seen so much of New Zealand,' and witnessed the snapping and scrambling that has been the order of the day since the Public Work's Policy was inaugurated, do certainly wonder and marvel at the apathy or submission displayed on a question of such vital importance to the future of this magnificent district. It is true the press * of the Thames' have nobly done itß duty, and no one can say your corporate bodies have not equally acquitted themselves ; but rightly or wrongly all over the colony the Thames Eailway is looked upon as a job—a sop from Sir George Grey to appease a clamorous constituency; I thought so myself. 'Now I see I ought to speak candidly. You Thames people are too quiet, and you are not taking up,the position you are justly entitled to take on this railway question. The present Ministry are no friends of yours. Jhey may be imbued with the same notions as others in l'egard to the utility of your requirements, therefore assemble in your might, do not solicit as paupers, but demand as men, as men determine^ to have justice* If you are legitimately entitled to a railway, proclaim your wrongs with trumpet tongue, and let yonr old and golden hills, in reverberating echoes send back the challenge; you must have justice. Men of Thames remember the old saying " Vox populi, vox Dei." ;

Edwabd Donovan. Albert street, March oth. ■■ .-■ - - V