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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1320, 22 October 1872, Page 2

In our telegraphic summary of Mr Ormond's statement as to projected public works, mention was made of the construction of three coal fields lines of railway being contemplated, but in one inBtance the name of the line was omitted, and the omission we have, on communicating with the telegraph office, been unable to rectify. We, however, supplied the word Kawakawa, believing the item of L 25,000 to refer to the line which has already been mentioned as about to be constructed in the North Island. There was some ambiguity also as to the precise meaning of the words " to be commenced as soon as arrangements are made for working the mines profitably." A very trifling alteration in the punctuation would make these words to apply solely to the Mount Rochfort mines, about the profitable working of which Dr. Hector has expressed some doubts, and it may be that the reference is exclusively to Mount Rochfort, and not to the other lines, about which there has been sufficient agreement to satisfy even the most sceptical that it is the Government's serious intention to carry them out. But, supposing even that the reference is general, it is not more than, under the circumstances, the Minister of Public Works might be expected to make. As many of our readers know, an agreement as to the working of the Brunner Mine was entered into between the Government and the Superintendent of Nelson, subject to the approval of the Provincial Council. Fairly or foully, that agreement was not "approved" in its entirety, and the matter, so far as we know, is still in suspense. If Mr Yogel, however, displays the Bpirit he exhibited in his interviews with Mr Curtis, it will not long remain so, nor will the. Provincial Government provo to be a permanent obstacle in the way of working the mine profitably. So far as we can learn, all other arrangements for accepting tenders for the construction of the line are completed, and it is anticipated that a final settlement of the matter will not be long delayed. The Government, as we take it, are thoroughly committed to the construction of this particular line, and there is nothing to warrant the surmise that any change has come o'er the spirit of their first intention.