NELSON AND BULLER RAILWAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 284, 28 November 1872, Page 2

NELSON AND BULLER RAILWAY.

To the Editor op the Nelson Evbnikc* 'Mail. Sir,;— I am not in ;tfte tiabitrqf. writing, 'toltbe , newspapers,' but I ; cannot/ refrain 'from /corning forward and statirig^;my./p^inibh , ; that you' have done a right good service in calling attention '-'to the. lamentable state ; of the province at i the present nioment. iThe^eyiliyouishadoWiforth *^iU;im.oßt certainly fall, upon us,iu.nleß3./tthose,iipter;eßted bestir themselvee in the naatter. : i^ouidjliker.to know (1 whether <-"w*e ; . are' ieallyHSOf^fetter.edi'by-itihe . General Government that we: cannot;;do>what,we .; please:wjth),out'. own.;.; -{Is. itnot^o^sibie'^r^usiftp £aye i a,;-' < parliamentary?sur?ey I'^m^de^f^tTleiiine jto 'I the Buller f by^somo. really competent -, engineer who,.s^all\jaJß^ ' working r driaTiringß? That being accojrhp.Ufhedl X cannptfbui think.that . parties.may, be induced to imder^ke smaU "two. ea^'wr^na'^i&woiKl^oiily*, upon !heirig ■

supplied with Tations not exceeding the value of ten or fifteen shillings a week, the laborers to be Said oif tlie completion of their contracts in blocks |of|]and, previously agreed upon. lam persuaded ftnat there^are [scores of miners who would gladly avail themselves of such a> chance, and as the work advanced a wooden tramway might be laid down on sleepers capable of carrying 3Ulb-r»ils, ' Sincerely trusting that you will continue to agitate the question you have already taken up ' with so much earnestness, I am &c, A. B.