The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Swvant la verite. TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1883. THE WEST COAST RAILWAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 183, 10 July 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Swvant la verite. TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1883. THE WEST COAST RAILWAY.

Elsewhere we publish gratuitously an advertisement extracted from the Wellington newspapers, inviting tenders frr 11 contract, Palnvrston Section, o» what is now jocularly termed "The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Swim." Intending tenderers will find all necessary information m the adver tisement. Our private opinion is that calling for tenders is just about all that wili be done m the matter. We don't believe it was ever intended tbat a second section southward from Palmersfeon was co be let. We heard a resident of Manawatu a few weeks ago offer tn *ake odds that a spcond section on thp p almeßton end v» uld never be startpd: *<n» thnt. thp linp would work- northward from Wellington unMl it joined th loction now being cotißtructfid. TTp offerprl to include m his wnger tha within two years fir m now there won' he no shareholders m the "swim" wit'» 'fss Mian onehundred shares each ; orr r>thpr words, that the smaller shareholders would have either abandoned their interest, m disgust at the wav things were being managed, or wou'H have sold out to the promoters ami those "ia the swim." Cf course, m the. end the Government will tako over the lino, »nd then will be tha division of the spoil. One thing is Very clear, which is that it would have been infinitely bptter for Palmerston if the work hwd newer been started from this end at all. People were induced to become shareholders, under the impression that it " would do Palraerston ho much good ;" and now they find that all these antici« pations have turned out to be but the tmgolesa fabric of a vision, Sueinefs

l>eo|>ie flucked heic, thinking money would be ia abundant circulation ; and they find every branch of business overdone, and stagnation prevailing everywhere. We have no hesitation m saying that so far as any benefit accruing i o Palmmton. ia concerned, " the railway " has piov. d a delusion aud a snare. ■ trance to say this is the identical consummation we have heard our friend Mr Hen it y McNeil predict m connec* '. ion with the undertaking over and over Hgain. His prophetic wcrJs have had a wonderfully truthful realization.