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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3175, 9 April 1889, Page 2

It is to be regretted that, after all, the arrangements for the celebration of the opening of the railway to Eketahuna by means of a lunch should liavo miscarried, When the settlers in the place first camo together, they proposed to have a lunoh to which the publio should bo admitted on the payment of a reasonable fee. Mr Dataller, the contractor for the con station of the last, section of tho lino, wan of opinion that the lunch should be free, and offered to pay #25 towards the expenses. The committee appointed by tho . settlers could not see their way clear "to meet the heavy expenditure that would liavo been involved by adopting the idea, and the result was that the Committee decided upon giving a lunchoon (admission '7s 6dj iu the Top FJj, while Mr Danalier decided in .carrying oat his own idea by giving a luncheon'to his friends'at Parsons' hotel. B,oth sidjs must hive been convinced that complete success was out of tho question, and it was therefore no matter for eurif tkt a mooting should have ma ml ftj oatt% Dfebi ft) tfo>

"iH the position, The result was tbat arrangements were made which members of tbe committee thought would meet the difficulty, and tbe whole affair was thereupon left in Mr Danaher's hands. We do not profess to know at present who is to blame for the result; but one thing in certain, namely, tbat only those who had received invitations from Mr Danaber were admitted to the lunch. Ab a natural consequence a great deal of ill-feeling has beenraised, which we fear will rankle in the minds of a large number of people for some time to come. A largo number of visitors who depended upon the public luncheon ior their mid-day meal, on finding that they would not be admitted, tried to Batisfy tho cravings of the inner man elsewhere, but as might have been expected with such an unprecedented influx, the supply soon ran out, and the majority had to comfort- themselves as best they could without having any food at all. When the affair has been unravelled we shall, perhaps, recur to it.