MR. HOLLOWAY'S VISIT.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1854, 15 July 1874, Page 3

MR. HOLLOWAY'S VISIT.

(NELSOiST COLONIST, j Mr Holloway, the representative of the English Laborers Union, has lately paid us a visit. The time at his disposal being limited, he was obliged to use method with his work. Having ascertained that Kelson had no claims to be considered an agricultural Province, he directed his attention almost exclusively to its mineral resources. Mr Holloway first set . foot upon Nelson soil at Cobden. The Superintendant telegraphed to Mr Warden Whiteford, who met our visitor at Greymouth, and at the expense of the Province took him to the Brunner mine and escorted him up the Grey Valley. There, he was met by Mr Warden Broad, who shewed him through the Wealth of Nations, the Golden Ledge, and other claims in the Reofton district. From Eeefton he was taken to the Lyell, and tip the Bnller Valley to Hampden. He made the journey from Hampden to Foxhill under the guidance of Mr Edward Keane. In Nelson he was lodged at Panama House as the guest of the Province, and during his short stay was shewn all our public buildings, and the chief features of* beauty in the neighborhood'of the cityj by the Superintendentl Before sailing for Picton, he paid a flying ; visit to Collingwood, where he was taken " /- to the Collingwood Coal Company's and to the Para Para hematite He expressed himself as being highly gratified with his visit to the. Province, and predicted an - important future for our mineral operations. He was surprised at the amount :; of machinery that had been erected in the • Reefton and Lyell districts, under great disadvantages ; and regretted that the Para. Para Iron and Coal Company hdid ; not been floated in England at once, where," he was (certain, the capital would Have been found for it without any difficulty. ' . ■ : '' ; , .JSfelspn is not wont to make a great stir about strangers ; as witness the late visit of the Governor. But in Mr Holloway's case all has been done that the economical . Government of a poor Province could be expected to do. His reception has been plain and unpretending, but it was buai- " ness-like. He was enabled to formi a ' cbtnprehensive and correot opinion of the 'resources of the Provincej and that with- ; but any cost to himself. If he is the man •we take him to be, namely, the plain re- ; presentative of the working men of England, he will not think any the less of us, in that we did not lavishly place our great men and our money at his services. Nor has the Province cause of complaint. We will venture to aay that there is not a man among us who could go to England to'»pi6rrow : and give a shrewder or more '"reliable opinion upon the advantages or otherwise of the Province of Nelson to ;, intending emigrants, than Mr Holloway w'illnow be ma position to do. j