KAIPARA RAILWAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2253, 15 April 1871, Page 3

KAIPARA RAILWAY.

To the Editor of the Herald. Sir, —The letter of "Petitioner," in your paper of to-day, I read with much pleasure, ns proving the statement of my previous communication, and proves that I do know the ground well, as the swamp question shows. Thi' fact, is, it is no swamp at all, or you would uot catch the proprietor of horses and drays trusting them upon such a swamp, a3 'Petitioner" led us in his first letter to believe existed. I reiterate my statement about the steamer, and that the Gemini can go to llarkneis Point at almost any state of the tide, which cannot be done at Kivcrhead. " Petitioner" states that it is three miles from the wharf at Riverhead to ilurkness Point, and that it only saves the steamer five minutes fcy calling at Ilarknesa Point, and yet he tells us that the distance is throe miles. Captain Casey is to be congratulated that he is the owner of the i'aslest steamer in the world —steaming at no less a rate than thirl.y-sis miles an hour. Sir, I do not ignore all the settlers north of the line, but I nin sure that this line will be about us much good to them ns the fifth whee] of a coach, for how they are going to get to the railway from their homes or back again, 1 don't know. I should like to see the Wade settlers, for instance, humping their supplies from and to the railway. Sn far as the settlers North are concerned, this line is a dead-letter, absolutely useless to them ; and the settlers North any it would better become the Government to spend Hits money in making tho roads North tli.in spending on a railway which they look upon as useless. It appears to ine that, Mr. Petitioner has a eery strong desire to ignore all the settlers south of iho line, who, I apprehend, have done as much, if not more, in the sliaps of cultivation, and these are the people, it seems, who are to be ignore:! by taking the railway us far as possible from them Now I have no land to be affected, no matter which line is adopted, only this railroad is going to cost from fifty to seventy thousand pounds, and as the people at the Kiverhead don't find the money, and the public docs, therefore the public must have the railroad and the different termini to suit the public convenience, nnd to make a terminus for this end of tho line at Riverhead will not suit the public. I imagine we shall have vessels going up to this terminus ; and a dead beat from Harkness Point of three miles (according to "Petitioner") on a strong ebb tide, to Kiverhead, will not suit the public convenience to have the terminus at the wharf at Riverhead.—l am, &c, Waitejeata Elector. April 14, 1870. 4> I " DIE WACHT AM RHEIN." To tho Editor of the Herald. Sir, —I am sorry to you again, but promise to appear for the last time, even shout'.l further replies and arguments appear. " Anglo Saxon," who replies to my letter, is either one of the many bad informed, ones, or one who will not be informed. The King of Denmark hnppened to be Duko of Schleswig and Hoistein, and both those Duchies have belonged to Germany for centuries, also the King of Denmark intended to ruin tho German nationality of tho two places by acting against the constitution, in consequence of which the Danish War commenced, a question with which we have nothing to do. Tho town of Kiel, " Anglo-Saxon" thinks, perhaps, ia a town ia Denmark, for his information I may acquaint him that Kiel is a German town, and has never been anything else. I must also remind him that tho French Government, before tho war commenced, sent to the various Governments of Southern Germany circulars, asking them to join against Prusefii, nnd offering to make them independent of Prussia. France made quite sure of such an union, and probably tho laet war would have nover been if she had not regarded this union as a certainty.—l am, &c, Anolo-German.