Nelson on Wellington

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 22, 1 August 1885, Page 3

Nelson on Wellington

The Nehon Evening Mail thus diseeanes: — "We are net however left long to wender why the Post it m angry. One little sentence which immediately follows- the paragraph- quoted above revWs the secret. "This u a matter of vital importance to Wellington." Exactly; ' and aa we stated theother day this is the only peint of new from which a great eelonial matter— from the East and West Coast railway down ef the San Francisco • nail service— is regarded by the Wellington papers. It is a matter of far rter importance that the lino should constructed through a few sheep rant— thnß quadrupling the value of the owners' properties-- and enable passengers from Christchmreh to save a few hoars on the trip to Wellington, than • that it shenld be taken by a route which will open tip for settlement a vast amount of rich mineral country and land on which might be formed the home-steads •f hundreds of hard-working colonists. go at least 4hink« a Wellington uaperl « Vital iaparUace to Wellington" indeed!

How long is the colony going to stand this miserable element which so largely affects the politics of the country— this grasping selfishness of Wellin^ten? Will the members from the other districts be content that this state of things shail go on, and that every proposal ihat is made for advancing other districts of the colony must first ot all be subject to an examination through Wellington spectacles 9 If the members of the House who are personally unacqnainted with the district through which the line is to pass will take care to obtain information from reliable authorities, and will dispassionately consider the whole question without allowing themselves to be biased and misled by the farrago of nonsense that is dished up tor them every day, both in prose and verse by the Wellington papers, and if they will giva full weight to the willingness expressed by those who are most deeply interested to submit te special taxation, if required, in order that this most important line may be completed— if they will carefully weigh all these considerations, and allow themselves to realise the immense advantages that would be conferred upon the colony by the settlement of what now and, until railway communication is established, must remain a huge wilderness; if thej will think over all these matters calmly and seriously they must, we feel sure, come to the conclusion that this work is one that ought to be earned out, and further, that on no more advantageous terms to the colony could it be completed than those now offered, providing as they do that in five years at the most from the commencement the line will be finished:"