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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1611, 3 October 1873, Page 2

The Nelson Loan Ordinance Empowering Bill is the full title of another measure in the passing of which the Superintendent of Nelson interested himself in his place in the House of Representatives, and, so far as that House was concerned, it went through all the various stages by which Bills become converted into Acts, but as to its ultimate fate elsewhere we are not very distinctly informed. The fear is, however, that it f orms an item in the list of innocents that have been massacred by that Council which has been so murderously disposed towards all borrowing Bills, and that the undertaking of many important and urgently needed works in the Province of Nelson will have to be indefinitely postponed, dependent upon the remote prospect of being some time executed out of ordinary revenue. In the form in which the Bill was passed by the Lower House, it authorised the borrowing of £1.10,000, of which L 95,000 was to be distributed on the following works in the shape of roads, bridges, and school buildings :— Roads.— Upper Buller to Westport, £50,000 ; Wai-iti to Upper Buller, via Hope, £10,000 ; Black's Point to Murray Creek, .£2500 ; Mokihinui to Lyell, J2OOO ; Cobden to Coal Creek, £2500 ; Rai Valley, £3000 ; Golden Bay, £2000 ; Amuri, £9000. Bridges— Waiau, £6000 ; Motueka, £6000. School buildings, £2000. The securities to be given were— in Matakitaki, 25,000 acres ; Matiri, 25,000 ; Inangahua, 50,000 ; Lower Buller, 50,000 acres; Amuri, 75,000; Maruia, 50,000 acre 3. The Act also authorised for wharf, &c, at Nelson Harbor the borrowing of £15,000, to be secured on the property.