ROXBURGH-LAWRENCE RAILWAY LEAGUE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 20

ROXBURGH-LAWRENCE RAILWAY LEAGUE.

JFboil Ottb Own Oobbispondsnt.J ROXBURGH, April 1.

'At a meeting of the Roxburgh-Lawrence Railway League, held last night, it was Bedded not to coalesce with any other rail--ma.y league that had not for its sole objeofc .jfche extension of the Lawrence railway to Roxburgh. This was in reply to a communication from a sub-committee of the Otago Central Railway League. The league is in Communication with several Dunedin gentlemen, and it is expected a branch will be formed in Dunedin to unite with Lawrence )m4 JR^ajtburglL, a.ud act as a check to the

deputation from Southland visiting here, on, the 11th inst.

V Voting in Parliament is disgusting to anyone with a. sense of decency," said Mjf John Huteheson in his address to the electors of Wellington), "it is like the tallying of sheep." A prominent Wellington ironfoundep informed a, Post representative that therf fe unusual dullness in the business at present. The paucity of public works was regarded as an immediate cause of the lack of business, and rightly or wrongly the opinion was held that the exigencies of making a half million surplus wero fhe chief reasons for the inwswtfivfc^ P i m^& referred to.