SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1878.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 877, 2 February 1878, Page 2

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1878.

ietdeioeutaiul b.in^ mr..i an a«v-u'ol>:_ : w.lucing con iition some of th (i meat agricultural Inn<iß m thi» De'ta. ,The N^uhmepmiri ami ruhiKararaja districts hnvo but oniniwbackj||* their advano ment, $§&£ isol^^L -ir^m^jfcfoa re|t of tl^ smjciion o^xbo mafn rosuVbatweM' Newcastle and A ez.mdr.i woulu I remove this drawback altogether, «rid«lifa^tefc^it*iß*tHat*wfr^r«cotM--raend thoJurUnu' ci?,nM(leji;ation 01, the m.ittei td * he- Government no Waipa a^orfc wh-ch m ihe iiiifereßt3 ofc settle Jietit and colonisation ia wel' Worthy of theii^ attention. We have never seen a laruer, more infliuntially atton'leii, or more umni inous mating ..than that held a» Hamilton on Thursday er^-ninn to rnpuHiate rhe statement tliat the ex tension of the railway into Hamiltoiwas oppogrul to the wishes of thr inliabiTant!*. The extftisi»n of tb< ■■ line i to the town is indeed one «• ' f ffaTimTort&nc-B to the interests of tin ■^SpTaut:.more espHcinlly to;t?h^ Astern, portion of. it.) As it^>. W^ 1 ' ■ torn W-Jfift, ftome mile, \ andf a h^lt t<> Three miles; " aj-e'.r.lintf. 10 .wHich par-, ot it is ak(« f n. Vrrtm the railwny station. The cost of cartage added to tho freight of poods, and loss of tirae and incbnvfiiieiioe'; ™ wel ' m receipt of the goods, as m proaprntiug ei.qmrip.--as to .their ar.iv^l arc matters of seriou-. consideration to people m business. At the >«amo time the actual cost of the extension would not b»great The line to be traversed is a U-vel -one ar>4 all difficulty ot procunu. t'he'land V^e'.t h put out of the qin^ tMri by the" fac that tl.e road wonbe utili ed for , the purpose. Alt. i all, perhaps tho send.-r of the t« ley:iuii which has made so much atir m Hamilton, whoever he may l-e, hat done good service to the plac«-, for i. has CHUsed t? be yut on rtcurd aiui ' broueht prominently forwnrd tiie very and wholly unanimous expression "of o.iriion from" the people <>t Hamilton that the railway should b^ extended to the town. As far a« th^ authorship goes it is undoubtedly most desirable that the matter snoul i be cleared op and the blame saddled onVlhe riitht shoulders andall lin«eri) ■■& mißpic'on of bad citizenship remov«'^> from fnnse who are inn"cent of blame, and the Pemier will b - c >nferriny <> favour on the commnnity by divulging the name of the » nder.

. ihe W.ipa seoO.ers will ot)fcsiin \ q m-.ire than «hey are justly eu-itir-i to if the Government, acting on their reqn -s, employ » portion of th« Arm»d Co.-iStabnl.iry m tie construeMon of the road be*ween A-exndra and N**wc^tle. Th«^ Hrsnraent used'by the deputa ion on Thursday, whs a strong one, that m other parts i»f Wuikato, the mum roads had been ni.H<le hv the Government twf.»re the Highway Bards were hrons/'it int-» existences. To place We torn Waila o'on an equ Hy fa:r 'not ii^i the cost of construction of fh««vWai|>a • Pwd'which' is too srreat ,m nndfTtHkinor for the Highway Ro«rds to ' enter upon unaided. «houMb" shared hv the G< vrnment, at any rate'to "the xtert of finding . assist tuca m the Inhor of the Armed C»ns'a''«i f a»v. This we h-»ve udvooa p' for sony? ti<nn t>ast m these olumns as the d'lty of imy Governmen». As si Tmttp.- oPcavse it wil! bf neo ssary to furnish some approMmite estimate -t t'le co->t o f th • pronosed work, bat, lnt the c st be littlf'or much,, that we maintain h a nothing to do «vith the qupstion. Ail a matter of principle the Waitia •antlers have a fair ri^ht to espe,ct this much assistance at the hands of the Government, and thp. other portions of the Wafkato wi'l m no way srrnda;e it them. We have more than a year ago "und'again •_p.eent!y sh««wn the «»xt«nt of work required on the whole line between Newcastle and Alexandra. Altogether speaking- m rous>n nn»nbßrß the cost of thp road vwvild^rfot., exceed a coople of t'iou<and p »tmds. Let what may <*o*np, (ho Arm«d Constabulary Foice will have to 1 be maintained m the district for some time a.t lpa»t, and now that th •* r^ad boyoni. CnmIjridgH will nft'eq's c f'leir services, after the pres nt 'mra% we spp no h *tpr pn p'seto «hi<:h heir labour may *c pit thin m 'he -on strucMon o the A'a;p t road. This is all the sfttlers ask and 'hi-re .ppd he dm diffion'ty on the a- of he Government i" gran m .-it. I' requites no «=p"ci il money « x|»<ndirnve and r« lv^a itself into a simple matter of r mtino '■u^y (•onuected with the defence 'e.^r' tnent. On -h j other hand he consttuction of thN roa•« «ill very materially advance the colonisation and prosperity "f one "* ie moßf inportunt districts m the North I-lund, and m such oise will no« be ineHy a tnatter of local but .eoloflM hew.fr, It is n<« slnply a qnestion ,f oieni«« h*H «c: lno of rodte between N wcasije and Alexandra mid avoidi 'ff the presei t detour by way pfflawiitOPi totf i$ Will9p9» fyf