The Midland Railway.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3051, 14 August 1893, Page 2

The Midland Railway.

In Mr Matson's trade circular of July 29, just to hand, we find the following : —Our Midland Railway has had a long postponed birth, oar hopes have been strained to the utmost, and our patience is becoming exhausted. From whatever cause, or caures, oui? railway has been suspended for too long a tiiijo, like Mahomet's coffin j and some i*emed£al efforts should be set in motion to bring a speedy completion of the line. In looking backwards to to some years when all was froth, foam, and fury, and comparing those days with the present, one asks—ls this the same Canterbury? Is thia the same people 2 When I think of it, there occurs to me the half desponding lines, addressed by the poet to the '/ inept jaud drowsy Greeks," which read as! folio ws ? yig :— Ye Isles of Greece, ye Jjsles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loyad ajjd sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace. Where Delo3 rose and Phoebua sprung, Eternal summer gilds thee yet, But al| except thy " sun " is get. [Let us trust that those who are still loyal to the cause will stand by, and be at the " ready." The merits of the road across the " dust-heap " are too wel'.-known to dwell on, btft having gone so far, ws must not now turn back. It means, more pjiopJPj more money, more markets for our Canter bury produce. [We trust Byron's bones will not turn jn thier grave at the above rendering of hi* lines; but it is Lest to give Mr J. T. Matson as he writes.^ ,