CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10969, 18 July 1898, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Editor does not hold hlmseU responsible 1 for opinions expressed by correspondents. EAST COAST RAILWAY. Sir,— To a looker-on It cannot help sulking one how Blow the people of iNapler are to grasp any projeob held oat. lor tbe advancement ot their town and welfaie of their dlitrlot. I am now speaking more pf r.lealarly in referee ob to the JSast Coast railway icheme, which met with snob an lndlf< ferent leeepibn at tbe meeting at the Theatre Royal the other evening. liU because the scheme la looked upon v lmp^saible from a fioanohl point ot view, or from engineering difficulties, or some other reason, or perhaps tbe most argent reaion for the oonstrnotlon of this most Important railway ha* cot been placed fordb'y enough before the public Io my idea It is thlt, that tbe trade of Napier Is gradaally belog carried away, and if the Mapinr people do not soon awake to their own loterests, onr town will be virtually liolated, and an immense amount of trade which Bboald have come to Napier will go to Auckland and WeU HngtoD, There is no donbt in my mind that If we remain asleep, Glsborne and Auckland, and conafquently Walroa will be oonoeoted via Walkaremoana and Rotorns, thus catting off onr trade with the N:rtb, and as some of onr finest tla-Ai x toiests He In tbe Walkaremoana dhtiht, this alone meant a feiloni lorn, ecd a'ready we know tbot tho bulk of oni prodaoe in the Patea distrlot goes to Wellington, thus will tbe oirole be nap rowed round Napier. Surely theD, It U now lime to awake to onr own Interests, and when the present survey now belog made Is oompleled, strike while the Iron is hot,— l am, &c,,. T J. Stuart, Tutlra Lake, July 11 h. 1898.