The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1887.
The toll gates on the Forty Mile Bush road open to-day. The practical effect of them will be to drive through traffio from the Wairarapa railway line to the Wellington-Manawatu railway. The Government, in refusing to help to maintain the road, are simply handing revenue over to a private company. The County Council Will obtain a small revenue by the tolls, but it is likely to be a diminishing one. The good they will derive'from this source will be more than counterbalanced by the loss of traffic the district will sustain, and by the general irritation and annoyance, tvhiohwill be expressed'among .all classes of settlers. The Government have been foolish and the County Council unwise.
Mb Beetham'« meeting last evening passed off quietly.. The-audience disJjttloappetite.: for politics, and gladly gave Messrs "Eenall and E. 1 Joncfr an opportunity Jo amuse (hem by airing personal grievances which really had nothing at all,to do with a gathering of such a character. Perhaps Mr.E. Jones might be excused for overlooking .this consideration; hut' a veteran politician Me .Mr Renajl .ought to know better than to dpg purelylocalqucfitiona before a. meeting convened for the discussion of colonial 'topics.' '."' '. '/"".
We have good gas in Masterton now,* but consumers are not so jubilant as they might be in • consequence of w uneasy feeling that at, any moment their lights may be put. oiit, The gda tank' leaks badly, ahtl it'is'only jW m going order ; >by a creek being 'continually turned into it. "£ast night.the ; f4am%' the creek, we .believe, jga\re 'way, the Miter' and
would, .we think, be almost better for the Gas Committee Vtake the bull by the horns, stop the gas, and havo the tank properly finished, instead: of assuming that everything is satisfactory, aud that the rumors of bad work and bungling are unfounded. The Committee, we understand, are spending a great deal of money in waking quiet patches, but this method of covering faulty, work is likely, to prove in the long run an expensive one. v
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2513, 1 February 1887, Page 2
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342The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1887. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2513, 1 February 1887, Page 2
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