RAILWAY REFORM-MR VAILE ON MR MAXWELL'S REPORT CONCLUDING LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 28 November 1885, Page 4

RAILWAY REFORM -MR VAILE ON MR MAXWELL'S REPORT CONCLUDING LETTER.

TO IHh KDirOlt. I vSn, -\sthe|i t two puigr\p(n <>f Mi M iwvell -. iop 'it have nn ii'fi-itMict' to anvtlnng I li i\e "\»'i •< ml hi den >, it i> not in'Cfs ii y fnr me to tioiilil» vo'ir n-.ult m with the t.t addle firy runt mi. 1 inn, howowi, ri'in >ik th ib wiii'ti Mr M iww II t.dk* ibout the di tpm—.-. i>f lilnui on th" Kuglnh lines, !) ■ -MM ll ' l|> t" he uti.iw ire of tin 1 f.ict tli.it it tikes an ,ni'i.i n 'i> of IK men pei mile to uoik thus i lmo\ w l)i!c line we maniac with less tli in time. I |ii><-<tiitii< ht) will admit tli.it 1') men m Kngl tiui cost more tli.m thico h -te. ills t.illv tln'ii almut then cheap labour i«, as I <ny, twaddle. He It is not studied his -übjecf, .md t- not entitled to *.p-ak with atitlmi itv. Now .ibwiit th- <m i in in disfuicos en the ciml lines. I ha\e only lately found out the true -<oliition of this m.ittci. Tins is itwhen Iwinte my letter ie the coil rates, following: tho only m.tps and othu d it.* obtain iblo h'Mc, 1 wolfed out thc«o di--tmcesas explained in my letter of 22nd July last. 1 \\rt-i tiwaro that tho SliofKeld()\foid branch h.ik in conrsu of construction, but several gentlemen who know the Cintorbnty lines intimately .assurod me that it had not been opened, .and it now appears that as a inntt'T of fact it utw not opened until tho middle of Septenibci, or two months aft'Ji my letter was written. A reference to the Sopteinbm 15r.u1-h.iw will show that this line is not mentioned theie. It was therefore impixxibl,- for mo to know that for sonic, time before the date mentioned the depirtinent has been cwryinff coal aloii^c that line. Ft is not neee^ary for me to chiracterne the conduct of tho Minister an J his colleague in tho teinis it merits. Honourable men will kno.v how to do that. The easrei ness with which the department iei/vd upon the first thinjf they could call an eiioi shows how closely they ha\e watched for a chance to show me in the w lorn,'. I ha\e now waded tlirnu^h this disgracefully untrnthlnl document with tho best patienci" I tould coiuui mil. If it f.urly repie>ents th« lepoits usually jitpspnted to F.irlianu nt, it is a poor lo.ik-out, for it in quite cci tain that tins one must h.ue liecn made with the intention of deceiving and misleading the House and the country. I, howe\ei, do not believe th.it it does, and I vciy imuh doubt if in the whole ciul service anj other man than Mi Joseph Prune A[,i\« 1 11 could be found to si^n his name to such a paper. It w ill be. i fin • nb 'ied that Mr Hicliard on in the House has, on thrive M'pii ite occasions', stated that I ha\e piopiised -e^ei.d solipinc-, of railway management. I picsiiine his object w«s to ere ite an lin-|iiei-ion tli.it I did not know \v\v\t I w.intwd. Tho whol" country knows that T ha\e ne^er jnoposod any but the one scheme, md if that is so silly why did he and other Miiii-)tei-i order " ■>■ Rie.it many " lepoits to be nude n|)oii it. Tcill ittention t<» the fact that Mr Maxwell's upoit does not bo.n out the stitemonts of th" .Mmistei md tint lie never attempts to repoit on mole than one plan. If the (!o\ eminent had wished to act rightly they would not have refused the priyer of the Refoi in Leslie's petition to submit the mattei to an impartial tribunal. As they have not hesitated to ie-.ort to dnijct nnhiitli t>» pm»o the wiong, they cprtunly would h.ive .v ailed thenisehes of this oppoitsinity had they not fult Muethat tho lCsiilt nf the inquiry would ha\e been to show that f am light. In concluding' I wish to exjiress my denp regiet at the p'-isonal tone this di>tu-^ion has tjvkon, but 1 h.i\e had little lv.-.-* than jiersonalities to ier>ly to. Why the depart ment— or rather the present Minister and goneiul manager -should ha\e imported so much peisond feeling into a gieat public question lamat a los- to imagine. 1 lm\i> nexer .isked or exjweti'd anything fioin them, but on the contiarv ha\e endea\oured to tho bestof my ability to render them and the conntiy a great service. Pei -.dualities weie fii-it introduced by a most miolent Icttei from Mr M.txwtllto tho Auckland Chamber of Coniiuerco m aiiswuz to resolutions 1 moved .ls ,i member of that body. What the letter was like may bo inferred fioin the fict tli.it the Chamber asked .in oxp! uiation fioni the (Jmeriiini'iit, and .in apology was sent. I, however, hope tint good will lesidt. The countiy mu-t now see th it no help can be expected fioin the present (rovurnnieiit, that they arc determined to stiHe enquiry, and jmu severe in a system that is fast mining the countiy ; therefoie the people must help themselves, and dining next session of Parliament not only make their \oices heaid, but also their actions felt.— T am &<"■, S nun. V.\fi k. Auckland, Xo\. V\ 18M5.

\Vori>-* that 1> un : W.cto basket poems Si im'O-m ,i round colnnin of coal, nine and onc-tlnrd feet in di.iinpter, reaching from the caitli to the moon— two bundled foity thousand nnlos away. Tli.it /would icproscnt tho rjuautitv of coal mined m England duiitiß t7ie last thirty yen-. A P(M(i\<: Pkimt.— The following story al out the potentate who has so suddenly become .an important persomge in Kurope is going tlie rounds of the Home papers :— Some time ago Princo Alexander of Bulgaria proposed for the hand of a Princess belonging to one of tho great reiguing families. Although the lady heiself v.a.3 not altogothei averse to the imtch, her patents acouted the idei, telling the too ambitious suitor that he must rise a good deal higher before he would be fit to innte uith their daughter. The Piinco took tliia rebuff in good part, merely lemaiking, "Very well, then, Since jon w ill not acuptamere Pi nice for a son-in-law, I must try to make myself ,1 King." This was legarded at the time as a mere idle vaunt, but Prince Alexander's piescnt enterprise gives the utterance something of the character of a r>r "Pen ," in the Wellington Press writes 1 Do you notice the pnuu of grain is steaddj cieeping up in spite of heavy fluctuations'' Wheat went up 4d in .Sydney last week, and oats aie close on 2s (id now ! Aye, aye ! What did I tell you? Sidney's the m.irUct for New Zealand ! It pays to tend piodnce there ! Vet they want to put on a piotectivo tariff next seision arid Kill the Sydney trade ! Do you remember the story about the Yankee u ho-c \\ ifr the «mke bit? No, I ne\cr iieard that ! Tell it to me ! Will, there was a Yankee, and he had an K«f|uunau\ Indian wife, and a prmuifnl strong woman she was ! And, when a sti anger looked in, he used to tell how a snake bit lit r one day ! " Did it kill her?" the sti anger would n.sk. "Kill my wife? Guess it Killed the snake !" Rough on the snake. IJut what's tho moral? Why, the moral is that if the Ministry try to kill the Sydney tinde, the Sydney trade'll kill them, it's so powerful strong ' By jove, I hope you're right, boss ! I pelieve you aie, too ! Tmhon, Tm/imt ' We'll see ! we'll see! Let 'em try it, that's all' Why the New Zealand farmcia couldn't get along these times without theSjdney trade, and then there's the merchant* and any number of other folks to be considmcd ' Oh yes! Protection would pl.iy up old scratch all round. The Bad and Worthless

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