The Colonial Secretary, Wellington, to the Superintendent, Nelson.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 119, 22 May 1871, Page 4

The Colonial Secretary, Wellington, to the Superintendent, Nelson.

Sir — I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Honor's letter of the 13th instant, submitting certain proposals in reference to your letter of the 26th October last, and to my reply of the 10th January, relative to the raising of a Loan of Sixty-thousand Pounds for the Province of Nelson, for certain specified purposes. The Government will be prepared to recommend to the General Assembly a Bill, authorising the Provincial Government of Nelson to raise a Loan of Thirty-thousand Pounds, for the extension cf the Waterworks, and the construction of Gasworks in the City of Nelson ; provided that such loan shall not be secured upon the Public Revenue, but upon the rates to be collected for the supply of Water and Gas, and upon the ordinary rates levied by the Board of Works, under the Nelson Town Improvement Act. A nticipating that the Provincial Council will concur with your Honor in recommending that the lines from the Brunner*, Mine to Cobden, and from Nelson to Foxhill respectively, should be authorised by the General Assembly to be constructed independently of the remainder of the line from Nelson to Cobden, the Government will take steps under the Public Works and Immigration Act, 1870, to have such surveys of these lines made, if the existing surveys are not sufficient, as will enable the question of their construction to be determined in the next Session of the General Assembly. In the 1 case of the proposed Brunner and Cobden line, it will be necessary first • to make careful enquiries as to the best course of the Railway, to connect the Coalmines, on the Grey River with a' shipping: port, and to submit the result of those enquiries for the consideration of ' the Legislature, and the Government , will appoint Dr. Hector, the Government Geologist,, and Mr. Blackett, Acting Chief Engineer of Public Works, to he a. Board of Enquiry for that purpose. I have, &'d.y : • A W. Gisborne, / * Colopial Secretary. April }$,\yi\f ' j .. ; V