The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1885. HOODWINKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2104, 25 September 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1885. HOODWINKING.

A public meeting was held at Woodville on Saturday last to consider the question of making roads through Special Settlements, and ut Committee waaappointed to reportupon itinconnection with a proposal to open Grown Lands by means of roads. 1 The object of the meeting was a good'one, but our preseut object in referring to it is not to discuss the merits of the resolution. From the lengthy report of the Examiner, we gather that Mr McOardlE attended, and made a speech in favor of his scheme for opening Grown Lands, and during his introductory remarks he i 8 credited with having said that " it might not be out of place if he made a few remark# about this road questioßj seeing that it referred to the district to which 5 he belonged, He referred to" the fact of Mr Carlile having endeavored to enlist Mr Hawkins 1 sympathies in the matter, and said Mr Hawkins was one of the worst men ho could have gone to from a Masfcerton point of view, Mr McCardle related" J)ow Mr Hawkins had endeavoured to have tj# Welling-ton-Napior railway taken up through theWangaehu Valley by his own property, and how, having failed in that, ' he tried to get up an agitation to stop : the construction of the Maaterton- j

Woodville line and have the. money spent on roads to. Crown lands." Mr Hawkins is,.of coucae, able to take his own part in this matter) but there are one or two pointß which we feel bound, to elucidate, For instance, Mr Car-' lilk never saw Mr Hawkins on the subjeot at all, and the milk and water sympathy which the latter accorded to< tho proposal was secured through the influence of Mr McCardle's friend, Mr jfroGG) j after Mr McOardle had declined to speak on the matter in the County Council, It is singular that this simple fact should have slipped Mr McCardle's memory while speaking at a meeting fifty miles away; and it is equally strange that he should say at Woodville what he dare not say at, Masterton, without exposing his faulty geography of tho district, that a railway line through the Wangaehu valley .would touch property on the eastern side of the Taueru. Slips of this kind usually come out, and the good people of Woodville will not be long in ignorance of the fact that they were nearly led astray by them.