The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 438, 14 April 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1880.

Now that the West Coast line, agitation has subsided, it would be as well if our friends in the Empire City turned their attention to securing the completion of the line to Woodville. In the Forty-Mile Bush there is a very large supply of land equal in quality to the fertile vale of the Hutfc, which will prove a good investment to either employed or .unemployed. The Corporation of Wellington itself possesses a reserve in this locality that would, if improved, support: in comfort forty or fifty families. In fact there' is here asuperabundance of first-class bush land ripe for settlement, which has been too long neglected. A good judge of land has informed us that it is naturally the best country for fattening itock in the North Island, and that it will pay capitalists to buy it up, clear it, and grass it down. Why should not the Wellington unemployed be located on. this block? The Government would readily listen to any proposal to find them; work on the line,. The land is in the market at a fair price, and there is no native difficulty to'-cause delays or dangers. If the Wellington unemployed searched New Zeaknd : frora one end to the other they would not find a better bargain in land than that which is obtainable north of Masterton, and which is now all but within a day's journey of the capital of the Colony. Above Masterton it is not one but a a score of good blocks of land which are available, and linked as they must yet be by a railway, their value is of a permanentob'aracter, -Wellington during the last eight years has let a great many chances of obtaining good things slip, and now that good things are becomirig.scarce in the land, it has made a blunder by asking for/unripe; fruit when ripe fruit could; have been so readily obtained. In eight years Wellington secur6d\|'0 f ''mM.. r ; of i ,Hilway, i ' which ran iiv all -'Bo'rtg'of '-wrong- direct tions, and was about as badly constructed as .a line could- be..' If>Wel- ■ lington had been.a small inland town in Otago it would:'probably have' received more consideration, but being ; the Empire. ; oityv it had, f to. open: its

mouth somewhat gingerly, and shut its eyes very closely, The. public men of .Wellington,' ," thp .City Fathers,"-' have ■been apparently'J'oo, -much, absorbed in the contemplation Soft their own greatness to uoticei only igdfc lone; mile of railway white-other'partsof-jtlie. Colony were getting ten," Still, at thV eleventh hour, the City Fathers, woke up, and said, "We want ou.r % Hllowance. of enke doubled," "aiad 'seemed "}o, torgei, •'Mlsuch a reqUifst.HVa's'a little AJisurip alter the cake was. all. gone. .Seven, five, four, three, or even- two. years .agc>Wellington might hnve got a big slice instead of a' little one, but now the caku is gone it is no use talking about fresh slices, If Wellington will turn its attention to settling its unemployed in the Forty-Mile Bush it will accomplish a great thing, both for the City and the Colony. There is land enough in this part of the country to absorb every man, woman, and child in the Empire City.