The Sandon Tramway Scheme.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 259, 10 May 1883, Page 2

The Sandon Tramway Scheme.

0«r unfortunate (Jounty Chairmaa'B naught? tnngae is always getting him into trouble. At the tia:nway meeting ;tt SdtiUoa he made a statement that the Wetlintfton-Mfinawatu Railway C«>. would mike a line from FoxNn to liorowhenua. to conntot the train way t.ran^b. This. wa«« at cn.ce challenged by M( D. Fr^sier, and the speaker said his -aofchVilr wU- Mr James Wallace^ I Secretary to I lie Oompauy, wb/> t»)d him; !so hva private eonver»afiou. Tn a leiier from Mr Wallace to Mr Fritstf, published m the Marion Advocate; the former says: ■ r- " i)r tyo kgtrow had not the slightest authority for stating . at the Sandon meeting th^t {bad, informed him that the . WeHiflgtbn^Maflawatu' Kail way Company would makejrhe junction line between Foxtpfi a^d "Horowhenua.'' t Mjjf Varies* Bui; also writes to the Advocate onjjhe .«a;m.e subject and says: — £ JSow •ks regards the QOairman; of thje ; Manawattt> : eaiviniy Qquncil;— He says he came principally, to. mutt Mr Jtmek Bull, and he had' the effron cry s^y-iny' vJace was to be there at .that meeting.; Well, I do not tbinlc Mr ftockstrow can teach mi my duty, btttja^e it to say that I hnd /a. vpecial summoug to attend ..a met-ting of ; directors of the Wellington- Manawatu Hallway Company, .and I chose to attend to those duties I had previously undertaken rather than attend a meeting of rate* payers and such very undesirable men a« Mr Koekstrbw ; arid, as for being a coward, it is easy enough for any charlatan to be plucky and. abusive when there is no. danger, and I entirely deny: having ever challenged , Mr Kockstrow, unless threatening him for what I consider , illegal 'acts m the ! council, ,, and giving expression to my opinion of him, at times I am afraid m language more forcible than polite, can b© con»ti»ttrd into achditvage. I»f«V on I'e^aif of Jilr James Wallace, give a i most* emphatic denial to the statement J : hat the WellingtQn.Manawatu'Biailwrty 1 Company would make the junction fiom Horowhenua to Fpxton, or that he ever thought of sufeh a thing, as no sa-ie men would ever thing, of making a railway through that country^ with their own maaey, ami Mr 'WM^ expresses astonishment >it his (Mr Rbckctrow's) audacity. ? Well; I am not astonished, asl ibink : M^ Rockstrow's audacity is only eqnalled by his mendacity and ignorance^bf social ethiar, and he struck the keynote of hiipdlicy,! and in*d verten tly. ip' 6k<e the truth when he he paid he was m favour of making rail. w,«ys when you had not to put your hand into your own pockets ; and to squeeze the Government dry, and get all yon could out or them. This is, to unscrupu^ lous men like the chairman ■; of the Manawatu Council Council, the correct thing to t do. . He wa« very much opposed to the original fatlway company and urged that the making of this line he is now sab'ataut ahoutV would be the ruin " of tht? Mouroa settlers." Mr Fraser concludes his I'itter thus ;—- --" I ani sure if the Manawatu Coijdty C'uticil carefully, consider tuemattier a* a whole, they could do hetter than pay £100 a year^ or more, tor a man to make inwleadmsj statements at public meytin^s, to make u-je of what he said wa» private a' a public meeting. • If it is neces-'ary to pay a man to fill tliat hpnora|)leipo-ii-tion,l;t«>r one would say, let its send ;o. Siberia for a fully cbm|>e?ent and undoubted character, who 'will not mislead the public." The above correspondence is sufficiently plain to need no cpuiment