NELSON and WEST COAST RAILWAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 292, 7 December 1872, Page 2

NELSON and WEST COAST RAILWAY.

To the Editor or the Nelson Evenikg Mail. Sir,—l have carefully looked forward to what Mr Luckie would hive to say about a matter which is now exciting the utmost interest in. this province, and to which you have lately devoted much of your attention, viz., the opening up of the country between Nelson and Greymouth by means of a railway, and I have been much disgusted to find that he has in a measure cornered the sut ject. In the trifling notice he has taken ot this important matter he has taken gre±t care to import politics into it; and be is now endeavoring —against the direct wish of the Committee appointed to frame a report to be presented to the Government—to make a party measure of it. This I venture to say, is the very means whereby the objects of the Committee will be frustrated. I think it is unwise, until such time as the whole report is in shape to be read at a public meeting, that what transpires in the committee-room should be made use of in any way, much less in rousing political feeling. If Mr Luckie cannot say anything more to the point about what is now daily engaging the attention of a large and influential committee of Neison gentlemen whose interests are closely bound up in this important matter, I think he had better say nothing at all. I would remind him that by keeping this matter (in a friendly and nonpolitical light) constantly before his readers he will be doing a real good to the province generally, and more especially to the working men to whom he is indebted for his seat in the House of Representatives. I hope Mr. Luckie, for his own sake, fully understands the public feeling on this subject. If he does not be may live to repent the lukewarm - ness he displays in 4t In conclusion I would point out to Mr Luckie the warm interest the Evening Mail and Nelson Examiner are taking in this matter, and ask him to take an example from these papers. I do think that had Mr. Luckie during the last fortnight devoted as much of his paper to pointing out the importance of this railway to the province as he has to publishing lengthy articles about Gillies* and Vogel's financial statements, and political speeches, about which nobody here cares one jot, he would have done good fervice to those he has reason to be under great obligation to. I hope Mr. Luckie will take this hint and pay more attention to a matter which is of the last importance to all who have any interest in Nelson —a matter which I should think is of great moment to himself if he is to remain among us. Yours. &c, K. Y. Z.