WELLINGTON, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1675, 31 March 1883, Page 2

WELLINGTON, Last Night.

Afc a nieetinsr of creditors to-day iv the estate of Henry Mnce, a motion rccomniending lm immediate discharge was earned unanimously. Allusion was made in the animal report of the Clumber of Commerce to the consti notion of the length of 1 ail way between Marmtahi .and Hawera aa of great importance to Wellington. It pointed out that although a vote for this work had passed on the estimates last session no leal progress had been made \\p to the present. The delay in the matter had been productive of considerable loss to the mercantile community of Wellington, and the committee trusted that pressure would be brought upon the Government io that the .contract might be put in hand forthwith and actual progress made with the work. An animated discussion ensued, and ilr K. McDonald stated that the stream of trade which existed between this city and the district known as Waimate plains had been diverted to a large extent to Auckland in consequence of the failure to go on with the line of 'railway. He ti usted the chamber would see fit to [>ass a resolution with a view of expediting the work. Unfortunately, too many people considered that business' and politics, weie entirely different, forgetting that they were in two parallel lines. The member for the distiict, as a whole, had not displayed that earnestness in seeing that Government did their duty by this railway question that they should have done. Mr Levin, M.H.R.. said, regarding the line in question, tenders 'had just been invited for the heaviest portion of the unfinished line, and tenders would be invited for the remaining link as soon as the surveys .were complete. From the first day that' he enjoyed the position he now did, he had made it his business to urge upon Government the importance of that connection, and had been aided in the task by other members 'of the- district. He fully believed that before the chamber met that time next year the line would be as close upon being opened as it could be., Pr. ,Ne\yman, contradicted Mr McDonalds statement about' the 'trade of the Waimate Plains going to Auckland, and demurred to the assertion that the trade of "Wellington in any single quarter' was decreasing. On the contrary, Wellington had extended its borders of trade enormously during the last few years. Mr J. Duthie dissented from Dr. Newman on the point, and knew for a fact that two-thirds of the trade in the district referred to Was being done By Auckland through the delay iv the construction pf the railway. He mentioned this without' any reflection on Mr Levin, who he knew had interviewed the Government on the subject frequently. ' ' '