The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3756, 10 March 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1891.

The opening of tjfe Qorge line yester-j day is a good thing fqr the residents of Wellipgtpn and Napier as it shortens the journey and decreases! its cost between these centres. It is a good thing also for the Manawatuj Railway Company, tor it brings more! grist to its mill. It is not by any means a bad thing for the bush settlers, who will be able to send produce to Wellington and obtain sup-, plies from there on more favorable terms than heretofore. It is not altogether a good thing for the Wairarapa, as we shall for the future see but little of man/ Wellington and | Napier friends who ha7e been wont to travel through this district and, further, some of the bush trade with Maßterton will undoubtedly be diverted by the new through communication. It is scarcely a good thing either for the Government railway, which has sacrificed the completion of its pwn line to objige the Wellington and Napier members who insisted upon the making of the Gorge link. Although direct railway communication between Wellington and Napier has not taken the route we might have wished it to take or which it should have taken if such matters were not settled by lobbying, it is still a matter of congratulation fqr the community as a whole. It will increase the prosperity of some of our up-country districts, and will certainly be an advantage to the city of Wei linglon. The growth and prosperity of this city is indirectly an advantage to the Wiurarapa so that there will be some compensation for the direct loss of traffic we shall sustain. There are few districts in the colony with greater natural advantages than our own, and if occasionally we do get left out in the cold in a political scramble we can in the long run hold our own. Napier and Wellington people have now gained an advantage for which they hare struggled for years, and no doubt now will be good humoured enough to help the Wairarapa to obtain the completion of its line as they have no longer a direct motion for obstructing it.