THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE AND PATEA AND RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." THURSDAY, 29TH JUNE, 1876.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 3100, 29 June 1876, Page 2

THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE AND PA TEA AND RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." THURSDAY, 29TH JUNE, 1876.

To-day, if no unforeseen accidents occur, the town of New Plymouth will be placed in direct communication with the rest of the civilised world. Hitherto, there has been a break of some considerable distance — from Stoney River, if we remember rightly — but now, thanks to the prompt, energetic,, and practical interposition of the Premier, the Mountain route has been utilised, Native lands, the traversing of which by the wire has previously been an insuperable obstacle, are avoided, and the lightnings of intelligence flash uninterruptedly from shore to shore. Taranaki has had much to complain of in this respect, and doubtless the broken link in the communication has tended to retard its progress, both in a commercial and social sense. But now, brighter prospects scintillate from out the gloom caused by isolation and consequent retrogression, and we doubt not but that the capital of our neighbouring province, as well as the district immediately adjacent, will experience in a substantial degree the benefits and advantages which accrue from uninterrupted telegraphic communication. Merrily will the wires now echo their reverberations under the -vigorous manipulation of the operators, who will experience a keen, gense of

satisfaction as they respond to the wellknown call as it rings direct from the City of the Cape and Mountain, and receivers and senders of communications will alike feel substantial pleasure in the reflection, that now the uncertain courier transmission is abolished, and without a break the electric current speeds onward in the fulfilment of their behests. One by one, and if not by rapid, at least by sure degrees, are the intricacies and difficulties connected with Native opposition to European progress disappearing before the invincible march of civilization and the well-directed efforts of those in authority ; aud we cannot but recognise, in the attainment of this consummation, an indication of the irresistible and triumphant supremacy, and unconquerable determination therein demonstrated, and by which such congratulatory results have been achieved. W e trust that. Taranaki will rouse itself from the lethargy into which it has allowed itself to lapse, and will display a tendency towards the development of an approaching reaction, or rav,her revolution, corresponding in effect and potency to the thrill of the magnetic current which now connects its population in a mysterious bond of mystical, yet tangible and substantial, fellowship with the rest of the world. We sincerely trust that we may anticipate, in acknowledgment of this cordial and most unmistakeable expression of regard on the part of the Government for the best interests of the erstwhile garden of New Zealand, a hearty, unanimous, and responsive " So mote it be," to the programme to be adopted in the future, as delineated in our preceding remarks.