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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 143, 27 November 1884, Page 2

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'llr Hawkins 'of Wairarapa, says : — "It is a plain' incontestable.' -fact that Parliament; has {effectually^ majde the Gorge line'the fifain trunk railway from Wellington to Napier. The Rimutaka- ,. 'Masteitpn-. Forty-mile Bosh^line.is $pt Wd'oannofbe tße :; luain'ti <^'nk''lini be] tweea Wellington and Napier. Facts .hav^ i.befin. too,, stcong.fpr the intention -l>f-pa^>:opye'rQiueniB r sn4.the proposed extentibtl from Masterton to Woodville j has become a djstjrict line, essentially .'qUtrlet,- and the traflSc from the upper ■^d^^Ul'-^ay.TUjie^b^^pbdviUe' from :tl)i9L : <i^eif'i3t[d;';tor:''^asite!rtou and not thrcfolr^tfafficfrpm 1 Napier to Wellington Mall^pliSs •that' Way .'■ ;y4 —^The^Stout-Vogei-Ministry have been subjected to pungent criticism by the Otagfo Daily* Timek.' That, goiii'nar de- :; clares «»f Mr Stout : — " He became' Pre- •. mier, of New Zealand more by good luck than good management, or, if that view leaves out of sight the intrigues ,by which he gratified 1 his ambition 1 ,' '•ye' willput it by gbb'd'luclt arid good management ratherjthan by desert. Of the part '' which Mr Stout 1 played during: the crisis, we caa.r;only say that it completely destroyed ourlrespect for him, Only those wbp were op .t^e^sppt, and before r whom his' character' unravelled itself' at each fresh turn, can feel the dissapointment : 7— to use no stronger word— that we feTt -'at his want of loyalty, his;, selfishness, "and his crookedness." ""^ l ' l Public opinion (says Tru^h) has? /veered round;; a^joutf Gordoa. iHec-hadf deliberatel vf disobeyed his instructions. y Svith wrpdg headed' obstinacy, "'instead lof retiring, when he could, he has remained,. at, .Khartoum, m. order, to force us to send an c anny. not to rescue him, to enable him tw take a bloody yen-: geance oh those who have dared to' -re*-' resist his wjl!.,^ I should, be .s,prry, .were, r h,e kiljed, but I see, , no .reason , why - we should riskjjhe^Hfe of one ' single Bri- ' tish soldier m his behalf. If he is now m danger he pwes this to his ignoring that the 'first ■ duty of' a soldiers' is''to obey orders,i and tio hK forgetting thst .when a man undertakes to act under instructions he siiould not run' counter to 'them. '. ■■'• ' "..■. '.- ■• „, .. ,-, .• . . ■