NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS AGAIN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1786, 22 November 1887, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS AGAIN.

To the Editor of the Star.

Sib, — We have to-day received from Sydney a parcel containing two sfieets of null silk, weighing 2£lbs. The coat Irom Sydney to New Zealand is ss, but from New ' Plymouth to Hawera it cost us 6s. The last parcel we received, five times as large and 121bs in weight, cost, delivered here, a total of 7s. We have written for information to New .Plymouth, and in the answer we received they told us there would be 9s 6d to pay at Hawera, and they insinuate that we had been assisted tbrougbt the clerks on former occasions. But when the parcel arrives at Hawera we have 11s 6d to pay. There appears to be no help, but to pay and grin. Who is the official to write and complain about there over-charges ?— We are, &c, Ogle Brothers, Tawhiti Mills.

The meeting to consider proposals to establish a bathing place near Hawera, will be held this evening. The meeting was convened by Mr. C. E. Major. Dr. Alexander on Monday declined to accede to the request made to him that he be nominated for the mayoral chair. He thought some preparatory training as a councillor was required to enable him to do justice to the office if he were elected. , ; In reference to the death of Sir William MoArthur, we may mention that two members of the firm from London are now travelling through New Zealand, and came down from Auckland by the GairIdck on Friday. /Ttibse who have the Stratford railway petitions in hand are requested to return them to the hon. sec, Mr. T. Hutchison, Hawera, as soon as possible so that the signatures may be attached to the engrossed petition and forwarded to Wellington. Turnip sowing is nearly completed on the Plains. There is a much larger breadth tinder swedes this year than last. The earlier sown lots of turnips are looking strong and healthy. Up to the present we bear no complaints ot the " fly." The annual meeting of the County Council will be held to-morrow. The chairman will bring down a report on the county roads and bridges, and proposals as to how the necessarily heavy expenditure can best be met. The general public are complaining of the waste of time over Sir. J. Vogel's row with the Speaker. Retrenchment cannot bo carries one if the time of Parliament is to he wasted orer Zengthy discussions on the exact interpretation of, or proper procedure under the rules of Parliamentary Practice. Section 16 of the Corrupt Practices Act, 1881» referred to in a Press Association message. re the Bryce-Hntcbison petition, reads as follows :— '"Any person who knowingly provides money for the purpose of any payment or expenditure, or for the repayment of any money so paid or expended, shall, where the person who made snch payment or incurred such expenditure was thereby guilty of an illegal practice, be also guilty of an illegal pftetioeA^ , _ Freeman it., Jackson and Co., sell stock a! Wanganui jto-mprrowi