The Stratford Route.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7199, 6 February 1892, Page 2

The Stratford Route.

"VVk were never believers in the utility of useless work; but we have always believed in the extreme kindliness and geniality of the present Native Minister's disposition. Mr Cadman, persuaded by the Aucklanders (who are, we may remark in passing, insane on tbe subject ot the Central Trunk Eailway) agreed the other day to ride along the Stratford route. The party has just come out of the barren wilde, and the first thing it has done, even before it enjoyed the delights of the banquet— for which the magnificent cuisine and still more splendid and equally well known cellars of Stratford, whose name is legion, are the very best guarantee, as nobody requires at thiß date to be reminded— ie to send telegrams broadcast, asserting the superiority of this road to all other roadß for a railway. Ineffable balderdaßh, o£ course, the whole thing is. Fortunately* Mr Cadman is as shrewd, and capable, and independent as he is genial and kindly* The Slratford route is, as every fair* minded man knows, utterly out of the question as a railway route. The Trunk line is tbe thing, and the Rooner the Trunk line is made, and the sooner the Native lands on both sides of it are acquired, the better. If the lands are not acquired, the railway ought not to be made.