THE THORNDON RECLAMATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5555, 17 January 1879, Page 3

THE THORNDON RECLAMATION.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE NEW ZEALAND TIMES. Sir, —I think that taking everything into conaideration all parties ought to be satisfied with the settlement which has been arrived at respecting the Thorndon reclamation. No doubt it would have,been a good thing if the city had secured it as a municipal endowment, but that we did not is mainly due to shortsighted selfishness among ourselves. The erection of a most central passenger station and railway wharf, which are promised immediately, will he an inestimable public benefit to the city and country districts, while the completion of those public works will enormously increase the value of the land proposed to be sold in February—indeed, I do not know anywhere any position combining so many advantages as the blocks of ground south of the Government buildings—bounded as these blocks are on one side by a deep sea frontage, with a noble quay 100 ft. wide, and on the other by the main thoroughfare of Wellington, also 100 ft. wide, in close proximity to the goods station of the railway, the new railway wharf and passenger station promised by the Government, also the new Supreme Court buildings, close to the Queen’s wharf, the Custom House and Post Office, Telegraph Office, and business centre of.the town, —these splendid advantages will be materially increased as railway communication with the interior is developed; and as the price obtained is to be applied in furthering this extension, the money paid by purchasers will go'to improve their own properties. In addition to this, the land is now included withiu the city boundaries, and has a right to an equitable proportion of municipal expenditure for street formation, water supply, &c. Government has done a very wise thing in recognising the importance of speedily connecting Wellington-with the West Coast by railway. This is no local matter, but one of national importance. What the Moorhouse tunnel did for Canterbury will a railway hence to Manawatu effect to the Taranaki and W ellington Provincial West Coast districts, by connecting this most magnificent tract of country with the only seaport for some hundreds of miles on the south coast of the Northern Island. With all respect to the Wairarapa and Forty-mile Bush, it is as a shilling beside a sovereign compared with the Otaki, Manawatu, Wanganui, and West Coast plains. . I trust therefore that as the Government has promised it will pushthe West Coast railway on as quickly as possible, and allow no buttonholing or local influence to prevent the most eligible route being selected for what is really a national work. I think as the object is to get as much money as possible from the reclamation to assist in carrying on

the railway the Government did well to alter the site of the Supreme Court from Lambtonquay. The Court House will thus be away from the noise and bustle of traffic, and the unbroken frontage in Lambton-quay from St. George’s Hall to the Government Buildings will command good prices, adjacent as they are to frontages worth £IOO or more a foot. Believing that the Thorndon reclamation will yet be one of the grandest ornaments of the city,—l am, &c., J. A. A,

“ The new invention by Mr. Edison for subdividing the electric light, and thus rendering it available for domestic use in the place of gas, is not the only danger,” the Pall Mall Gazette remarks, “ which the gas companies have to dread at the present moment. Mr. Edison’s fertile brain has lately been occupied in an attempt to store up daylight and utilise it by night. That wonderful man has, as he explained the other day to a New York Herald reporter, made a solution which preserves light. His experiments with this solution have lately been crowned with the most successful results. He saturates paper with the solution, and then exposes the paper to the sun. The same night the paper gives out light for a while, and Mr. Edison is in hopes of so far improving the solution as to make the paper give light for several hours after dark. By this means, he maintains, wall paper may be made to treasure up the light of day, and give out the daylight thus stored for several hours after dark. Selfluminous paper has, he admits, been made before, but has not been turned to any practical use. There are, however, at first sight some difficulties to be encountered, in London at least, before luminous wall-paper will become serviceable in the manner proposed. Daylight in this city is, during some weeks in the year, anything but an unclouded blessing, and the reproduction at night of the morning’s fog will not add much to the cheerfulness of the domestic circle.”

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