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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2080, 28 August 1885, Page 2

It speaks little for the interest Wei liugton paptrs take, in the Wairarapa, or in umtiers concerning country districts generally, to tind that none of them considered it worth while to commeut on the extraordinary fact that a number of carriers have come to the conclusion that they can compete with a ruilv/ay line 71 miles in .length, and that they have banded themselves together to do it, The subject is one which not only affects the carriers, for they will be well satisfied if they make it pay, but it concerns all sheepfaricers in the district, as well as the merchants and agents in .Wellington, through whose.hands the wool passes. Further than that-, it shows that the Public Works Policy, which was to give us so much, has'not relieved us from the high rates of freight which have always proved one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the way.of the settler, Our railway line is otily a luxury for jwssengers, who travel quicker and .with uioro comfort, but pay nearly-as much as they did in the old coaching daya. The question that ban been raised is one in which the district generally is deeply interested, and as it also .affects Wellington, a few words to assist in bringing about a reduction in the present tariff would have been appreciated,