THE SOUTH ISLAND TRUNK RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 40, 6 September 1882, Page 3

THE SOUTH ISLAND TRUNK RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib— ln your issue of the 25th Aujrn-t, Mr. Travers again returns to the South Island Trnnk Railway, and on that ocoasion he pours put the vials of his wrath on the head of Mr. Gordon Gibson. lamat a loea to perceive why Mr. Travers selects that gentleman for the exercise of his brilliant satire. Possibly he may wish to oarry out the axiom "if you have no case abuse the other side." Mr. Gordon Gibson is not, however, the owner of the Jaui Bun, and as every aero of that run is the property of the Crown the people of New Zealand would reap the benefit of any enhancement in its value through the construction of the Waikarito Blenheim railway. When Mr. Travers writes on great questions "of pnblio policy such as railway routes and the settlement of the waste lands of the Crown, it is to be hoped tint he -will be in possession of reliable information, and Bhould he decide to personally inspect the inland route vid Tarnd&le and Top House, at this sessonof the year, I trust that he will follow tha example of the great lawgiver of tho Hebrews, and viow the promist d land from a aafo diatanoe, otherwise the Empire t ity would know him no more. I rejoice to sco that Mr. 1 ravers assures you, sir, that the ' Nelson people advocate Piot n as tho terminus of the through line of railway. Yet the Nelson deputation refused to admit the member for Pioton when they had an interview with Ministers. Doubtless, the excessive modesty of that deputation could not brook the presence of Mr. Conolly when they were advocating the olaims of Piotou. 1 am, Ao., Walter Gibbon. Kaikonra, Ist Septembar.