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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1182, 13 May 1872, Page 2

That it is time for the Coast to be freed from the present hybrid style of Government that afflicts it, seems to be the universal conclusion, and that some great and radical change should be effected cannot be questioned. Hitherto, unfortunately, the various districts have been split up by petty local jealousies, which have so far. existed as to have retarded the progress of all. As we have very recently shown, if united action was taken, all that is now complained of could be remedied, and the Coast take the political, position in the Colony to which its wealth and resources entitle it.' It is surely now time that an effort should be made in which all should join, and that, burying the miserable local hatchet, substantial peace should be secured by a powerful league of the whole of the West Coast of this island. Such a league need not be either costly nor difficult to organise, and surely it is worth while, pending the Assembly's meeting, to set it afloat. However much we may have at times differed with our southern neighbors on several subjects, we are glad to find, if we accept the statements of the leading Hokitika journal, that a desire for union is felt in that town. We need hardly say that every one in this district, every one on the Nelson South-West Gold Fields, as they are termed, would gladly enter into a bond of partnership, whereby the poast would be alike relieved from the incubus of a County Council and the mal-adminiatrafcion of the Nelson Provincial Government. It is simply absurd that a portion of the Colony, in : which the interests of all dwellers are identical, should be split up in the way that the West Coast ia. If all the fragments were bound together in one strong bundle, Westland, in the true meaning of the word, that is from the northernmost extremity to Martin's Bay, would quickly wield such political influence as to compel recognition at the hands of Colonial rulers, and take a position second scarcely to any in the Colony. The West Coast Times, the leading organ of the South, endorses the viewa on this subject that we have already expressed ; we quote the following extract from the issue of Saturday : — " The memorial to the Governor, agreed to at a public meeting at Reefton, is another illustration of the necessity of conjoining under one government the whole of the gold fields on the West Coast of this island." Again, at the conclusion of the article in question, he says, after commenting specially on the Nelson Superintendent's late refusal of leases :— " The only remedy that we can see to this state of matters is the one we referred to at the outset, to unite the whole of the gold fields on the Coast under one government, and the sooner that consummation is brought about, the more speedily will be the development of the riches of the several districts be secured." In this course the people of the Grey will heartily join, and will gladly hold out the olive branch to bring about such a desirable consummation. As we have previously stated, united action only is needed, when all that can be wished or hoped for can be obtained. Why do not the leading men of each diatrict take the initiative and inaugurate the necessary alliance 1