MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD AND POHANGINA GAZETTE. GUAR NTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE DISTRICT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1901 REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 6911, 19 January 1901, Page 2

MANAWATU EVENING STANDARD AND POHANGINA GAZETTE. GUAR NTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE DISTRICT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1901 REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.

Of late years " sowing the wind " has been going on in this colony in connection with political railways at an enormous pace, and now that borrowing in the Home market is impossible, there are many indications that the process of " reaping the whirlwind" is not so far in the dim, misty future as most people would like. One of the worst of these " white elephants" is the Otago Central, and those people who have been over it of late shake their heads in a very disparaging way when reference is made to the prospects of the line. But a jocular turn has been given by the Railway Department to the surroundings of this line in reference to the report that the huge embankment k-hveen Wedderburn and Eanf urly is subsiding at the rate of two feot a day. The inspecting engineer reports that this: will not cause any interruption in traffic, but believes in the near future that it will be necessary to use lighter engines. Just imagine a subsidence of 730 feet a year under a railway train not having any effect — perhaps a flying machine is in contemplation instead of the prosaic method of negotiating this country, which is said to be suitable only for goat-breeding, and that on rather a limited scale,' so far as the goats are concerned. But political supporter must be placarded, hungry electors must be appeased, and so the game goes merrily on until—well, that will be the trouble—the facilities for borrowing in haste are superceded by the repenting at leisure that is a necessary corollary.