THE OTAGO CENTRAL.
As was to be expected, the Northern Press are seizing on the Minister of Lands' Hyde speech with avidity, and urge that it supplies the best argument for " dropping " the Otago Central as a colonial work. Even the Ministerial organ chimes in. Iu a recent editorial the 'New Zealand Times' had the following :
If the Minister of Lands said that there are not more than 50,000 acres of Crown land available for small settlements in the area to be opened by the line, we may be perfectly certain that it is true, for Mr M'Senzie knowß his land by this time as well as anybody. The truth may be damaging to the future prospects ot the Otago Central line, but in that case' the line must cede. We cannot make lines in tho face of disastrous truth. "So much the waur for the coo" STEPHENSON'said on the famous occasion on which he convinced a parliamentary committee that cows would have to keep out of the way of railway trains. In like manner if a railway project meets a hostile truth it must gwfeiwly:. * **So much the waur for theline "is a godd motto in these cases. The' Railway League will have to be up and doing.
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Evening Star, Issue 9387, 8 May 1894, Page 1
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209THE OTAGO CENTRAL. Evening Star, Issue 9387, 8 May 1894, Page 1
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