NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1421, 4 September 1878, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

[per press agency.] The Public Works—lndignation in Heison. Nelson, September 4. A crowded and enthusiastic meeting of town and country people was held last night to consider the Public Works Statement. In the absence of the Mayor, Mr Barnicoat, chairman of the Waimea County Council, took the chair. Speeches were made, showing how faith hod been broken with Nelson in the matter of the West Coast railway. The following resolutions were passed unanimously—- “ The essence of the Public Works policy was the construction of a main trunk line through both islands, and the people of Nelson supported the policy on that ground ; and by the Public Works Statement ol successive Governments, and by the Railway Act of 1873 the line from Nelson to the West Coast, and thence to Canterbury was recognised as part of the main trunk line.” It was moved by Mr Sheppard, and seconded by the Bishop of Nelson —“ That under the scheme now proposed to fill up the other gaps in the trunk system, the construction of the northern part of the main line in the Middle Island is indefinitely postponed, to the injury of the people resident in Nelson and Marlborough : that this meeting views with the utmost alarm the proposal of the Government to entirely exclude this district from all participation in the new works to be undertaken within the next five years; that the Nelson representatives be requested to bring the foregoing resolutions under the notice of the Government and before the Assembly ; and to use their utmost endeavors to procure some material modification of the present ministerial proposals, which, if carried into effect, will inflict much gross injustice upon those residing in the northern part of this island. Wellington, Sept. 4. The s.s. Hincmoa leaves at six this evening, for Lyttelton, with the members to attend the opening of the Christchurch and Dunedin railway. Hokitika, Sept. 4. The blockade of the port has been removed through recent freshes. Shipping has resumed its activity ; four brigantines and three steamers are at the wharf discharging.