Unwillins Testimony.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 135, 15 May 1883, Page 2

Unwillins Testimony.

fWel'^gtoT Paper, j The Rangitikei Advocate (Sir William .Fox's paper) says — " Mr Bryce, though accompanied by a Government Surveyor, a blood relative, we believe, of • the Colonial Trftasurer, who, it will be remembered, lives m Taranaki, and is popularity supposed to have Mokau rail-* I way on the brain, gained absolutely no reliable knowledge regarding the route of the proposed line. His journey, which was accompanied by such a blast of trumpets, reminds us m this respect of the "French Monarch who, with twice \ ten thousand men, marched up the hill, and then marched down again." This is a somewhat valuable opinion, seeing that it emanates from Sir William Fox, the whilom friend of Mr Brycej and the present administration, and who, of late years, »s West Coast Commissioner, has had more to do with the effort to settle the native difficulty than any other two men. We are glad to have such a confirmation of the opinions we hare expressed from a man who must have sorrowed over the necessity for such plain speaking^.