OUR RAILWAY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3162, 5 September 1867, Page 4

OUR RAILWAY.

To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sib, — I am going to make a grand and sweeping proposal with reference to our railway. Some months ago (things are much worse now, I believe), I walked up to Parnell, and along the line. My situation was precisely the same as that of Dr. Hector at Kawakawa -I did not know whether to laugh or cry. At length I was overcome by my feelings,and, like Marius at the ruins of Carthage, I sat down on a broken truck, and laughed fit to split. It is as well to take amusement out of anything that can afford it in this world, and whenever I come in sight of any part of the railway I am in a cheerful frame of mind for the rest of the day. That grand oratorical effort of Mr. Cheeseman's in the Provincial Council, where he howled out about angels, men, and devils having banded together to oppose the railway and its commissioners, I shall never forget. The ex-Chairman has got a lot of clocks out from England, intended for all the stations on the line (which of the commissioners has a friend a clookmaker at home ?), and these are now lying useless. My proposal is, that two or three thousand should be voted to put this railway as far as possible out of sight — shovel in the cuttings, take away the fencing, and have done with the whole affair. If we could manage to bury the commissioners, the engineers, and contractors in some cutting, so much the better. We might restore the land to its original owners, and try to get back some of the money paid in compensation. Mr. Dilworth said he did not get one quarter the value ; perhaps he might give us four times what we paid him for the land. — I am, &c, Despaie.