THE WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT AND THE NELSON RAILWAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 22, 25 January 1872, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT AND THE NELSON RAILWAY.

The style of writing that characterises the leading Wellington journal under its present management is really most graphic and refined, and the inhabitants of the Empire City must experience a thrill of pride on perusing the literary production that is placed on their breakfast tables every momiug. As a sample we select the two following • paragraphs, tho first of which is from a leading article containing a would-be criticism of Mr. Curtis' recent speech. The remainder of Mr. Curtis' speech was chiefly confined to an advocacy of tbe Nelson and Foxhill Railway, and giving his colleague, Mr. Lightband, a threshing for having since the Sessim written against it He is evidently in a funk lest the Government should avail themselves of a ver/ good opportunity for postponing this precious line. We trust that the newspaper readers of Wellington are fully capable of appreciating the beauties of language, in which case they cannot fail to admire the above elegantly expressed sentence. Iv the same issue, we find another paragraph which is eveu more neatly worded. It is there stated that Mr. Lightband, M.H.R. for Nelson City, has got himself into a -nice scrape with his constituents by having luid the courage to tell the truth about the Nelson and Foxhill Railway. lie is assailed on all sides by a yelping crowd, who in their fear that this little swindle will drop through cannot find any language t o strong to apply to the course Mr Lightband has taken. It is no secret that the editor of tbe Independent, and the member for the Grey Valley j are one and the same person, and ifc may therefore hs instructive to ascertain how far tho speeches aud the writings of this gentleman coincide. In Hansard page 931, the preceding oue to tbat in which his name is to be found in the division list among the Ayes, he who now speaks of this railway as a "little swindle" is reported to have said that He supported the line as he thought it was the institution of a line that would open up a rich goldfield country. .It was "tie of the few|lines~ that would be largely productive when extended ;• but he did not think the iine from Nelson to Foxhill merely would be remunerative. Further commeufc is altogether uaneces- | sary.