THE THAMES WAIKATO RAILWAY ROUTE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1028, 25 January 1879, Page 2

THE THAMES WAIKATO RAILWAY ROU TE.

It is absolutely an impoasibility for us to take notice of every vague rumor that floats through the brain of the newsmongers of the settlements of Waikato. Where we to attempt this course we should land ourselves and our readers in a quagmire of doubt and conjecture, spend all our time and waste all onr space in setting up unreal spectres and demolishing them, and, in invsnting the means of circumventing difficulties which never existed. Thus, during the last week, our ears have been assailed with doleful predictions that the Thames Railway was certain to junction at Taupiri, instead of Hamilton. Terrible visions of the directors of the Piako Swamp Company despatchingan ultimatum to Macandrew, threatening annihilation if the route were not altered so as to cross diagonally that famoas morass, have floated through the disordered brains of those modern Athenias, who " spend all their time on hearing and telling some new thing." One influential gentleman of this class went sefaras to whisper with bated breath, that we were tainted with treason to the present route, because some vague interest in the Taupiri scheme might be supposed to attach to us. We cannot, as we have said, undertake always to wield our potent pen against such bogus scares as this, but as some sensible people even have caught the infection, and as the matter is of some importance, we may say at once that the most careful and minute investigation of the sources and truth of the rumor has not enabled us to discover the slightest grain of truth in it. The District Engineer, Mr Stewart, certainly knows nothing of the Taupiri scheme, and, on the contrary, has received instructions to proclaim the Hamilton route forthwith. The land has been arranged for, and a contract will certainly in a short time be ready to be tendered for. Ttjere seem to be some people jn

the world to whom a rumor and consequent scare is as the breath of life. We apologiso to them for being compelled to destroy the luxury of a Taupiri Railway, on whiph their imaginations have been feasting for a whole week.