THE PUBLISHED DAILY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1415, 12 February 1873, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY.

Tooley street was made famou3 by the fact that it was once the dwelling-place of three distinguished tailors. Although in itself a street of no pretensions, by its association with the names of these tailors, it has become one of the classical localities of the world's metropolis, Similar : notoriety seems likely to be earned by an ; equally unpretentious locality, from no particular merit of which it is possessed, but by the presence there of one, two, or it may be three persons who are as determined to assert themselves somebodies as were the three celebrated knights of the needle. That locality is none other than the modest suburb of Greymouth known by the name of Cobden. Though not numerously populated, the list of its inhabitants is sufficiently large to enable a meeting of at most three persons to be occasionally held, and what they lack in nu cabers they possess in influence. A.t least they think so, and, like the men or parts of men who lived in Tooley street, they desire to convey to the world a similar impresaion. At intervals, and usually some time after the event, we learn that there has been an assembling of this glorious triumvirate, and that there has been a "unanimous" decision come to on some question affecting the commonwealth. Knowledge of such a fact usually comes to us from Nelson, it being a feature of the character of these good men that they do not hide their lights under a bushel by communicating reports of their meetings to Greymonth prints, but for*ard them direct to the metropolitan journals of their Province. Thus it is that we learn for the first time from the columns of the Nelson Examiner that, on the 'first «lay of the 'present month, they met, deliberated, and once again "unanimously" carried resolutions "with respect to the railway." Although their opinion was not particularly asked for, as was the opinion of the Borough Council of Greymouth and the County Council of Westland, they have no hesitation in giving it, and they do so in the following rounded periods : — "1. That in the opinion of this meeting, the action of the Superintendent in proposing to guarantee half the interest oil the cost of constructing a railway from Bruunerton to Greymouth, is detrimental to the interests of the province, from the fact the interest and sinking fund for Lwhich the province would become responsible will not only absorb the profits, but entail a serious loss on the working of the mine if the railway terminus is made at Greymouth, whilst the same amountof capitalfor which Nelson offers to become security, would be ample not only 'to construct the railway, but sufficient wharfage accommodation to meet any coal traffic that is likely f o exist on the Grey river for many years to come. And that this meeting strongly condemns any mortgage being levied on the Brunner mine for the purpose of constructing a | railway out of the province, and is of opinion that ho large a question should '

be left to the consideration of the Provincial Council. "2. That a statement made by Mr M. Kennedy in the County Council of Westland, to the effect that coal had been I delivered at the pit's mouth at Brunnerton by the Ballarat Company for 2s 6d per ton, is not only incorrect but liable to mislead the public, and that the true fact of the case is, that coal was never so delivered by the said Company for less than 7s 6d per ton." There is added to this publication of resolutions the intimation that, four days afterwards, there was a meeting held at Brunnerton, when similar resolutions were carried, the said resolutions having since been forwarded to his Honor the Superintendent. How these meetings happened to be held, and were yet unheard of in tbe immediate neighborhood, is one of those mysteries with which Cobden delights at intervals to startle the world. The pity is that the reporter of the events does not condescend to particulars. It would be much more satisfactory to know the names of the chairmen of such meetings, and the names of the movers and seconders of the resolutions. It is unfortunately always at that point that the reporter is overtaken with modesty, and, instead of handing down to posterity the names and numbers of the assembled multitude, he simply calls it a "meeting." If he would accept a hint, the hint we would give him would be to be more faithful in future. He does the cause injustice by concealing names, and justifies the incredulous in coining to the conclusion that his meetings are myths, or, if they ate not absolute myths, are so contemptible in numbers and influence as to be designated " hole and corner."