CORREPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2177, 22 December 1885, Page 2

CORREPONDENCE.

• • ' 1 A QUERY, ' To the Editor. Sir.—Can you inform me who is responsible for the rough usagq qf oyr fire plant lately, jjj jg time it pg oheses $ little. |a%otc., ARatkpahr. To Tp Editor, Sir,—ln your iasuo of December 14th, I notice a letter from Mr A. Anderson, respecting the words used by Mr Stout, when at Eketahuna. 1 was also at the: meeting and can confirm what your correspondent has written on the subject. If you will insert this in your next, I shall be obliged. I am, etc., A'Selby " Eketahftna, Dec, 21st, 1885, ; , To the Editor. I, Sir.—l cannot allow Mr Von Redsn'a letter of the 16th to pass without a reply, i: Beetham tohitte

and others On the 30th November, Stating; that Mr- Stout would visit while I,- wh'o was the chief ■ proraotbt vof MivStoutV visit, knor nothing ;)liitil «? p.m. on December 3rd, whether l^'Stout;; y would visitthobushor not. AUowtor'say that' neither Mr Stout or 1 .knW J sdoner .than the date and the hour iuiniecl. Mr Von Reden wishes to know how. I came to know that Mr Stout was expected to visit Eketahuna. He then goes on to, say that i certainly did not knqw that the settlers of Eketahuna expected the Premier, ' Hero Mr Yon Reden ia quite wrong, as Mr A, W. Hogg Bhowed me; a letter from a settler in Eketahuna, stating all that was being done in' preparing to receive Mr Stout. 1 may as well tell Mr Yon Reden that, but for the letter 1 received by Mr Hogg, Mr Stout would 7 not have visited the Forty Mile Bush. ' Notwithstanding the fact that he had been told that Mr Stout would be in Eketahuna on the 4th, I explained to Mr Stout that I did not know who had led the settlers of Eketahuna to make preparations for his visit, but that someone had done so,beyond a doubt, Mr Yon ■ Reden than goes on to show.that, although, I explained matters in the presence* of Mr Stout, that-yet ( -he doubts m<\ because I had stated at a public meetQjtyhat the Minister of Public' Works ■ to put money oh the estimates for railway oxtension from Mauricoville to Eke-, tahuna. The Minister never told mo v anything of the kind, and, what is more, I never said so at any public or private 'jmeeting to any one. I did state at- the 'meetingtowhich Mr Yon Reden evidently refers that the Minister seemed to agree- 1 with me that the present works would be of little, or no use, until they reached* Eketahuua, and that- the extension to Eketahuna .would be all the railway required, in ■ the Forty Milo Bush for some years to como. I also said tliat I would be very much % appointed if provision was not in the estimates for the extension to, Eketahuna. 1 was more than, feppsia-, ted when 1 found thpt ap. provision had v be'en made, that it was proposed to , extend the railway from Woodville to Pahiatua. I did not lose any. time, in urging the Government against bringing the railway from the Woodville side, and again urging the claims of Eketahuna, and the necessity of preserving the natural I connection between Masterton and the Forty Mile Bush. Allow me to inform Mr Yon Reden that I have done everything in my power to forward the beat, interests of ■ Eketahuna, I tho claims of Eketahuna, a,pE. thrift on tho Government^ I am, etc., W. W. McCardle,