The Globe. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 101, 26 September 1874, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.

The delay which has taken place in the completion of the Malvern Hills railway is causing a great deal of inconvenience not alone to the residents in the district, but also to the province generally. Some time ago the Minister for Public "Works promised that the Government would press on the work with all possible speed, and stated that the Hue would be open for traffic during the month now nearly closed. Looking to the fact that during the past season coals have been at almost famine prices, and that large sums of money have been sent out of the province for an article which we possess in almost inexhaustble quantities at our very doors, it is to be regretted that this delay should have taken place. Had the line been opened, as it should have been, for the past Avinter season, the people would have been enabled to have had fuel at a reasonable price instead of being dependent upon the fluctuations of the market at Newcastle. This has pressed with more than ordinary hardship upon the working classes, as many of them know to their sorrow, and even now the line is being pushed forward with such vigor that, if the same rate of progress is kept up, it will be another year at least before the Malvern Hills coal is brought into the market. The proprietors of the various mines have been unable from the want of speedy and economical carriage to open up the various seams, and so an industry, the development of which would have been of incalculable benefit to the province has been to a great extent paralysed. We trust that no further delay in this important matter will be allowed to take place, and that the Government will see that the contractors for the line carry out their work with all reasonable speed. There is not now, as was the case some months back, any excuse on account of the scarcity of labor. Of this there is enough, and to spare, and therefore we fail to see any tangible reason why the delay complained of should continue.