THE RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 144, 17 June 1873, Page 2

THE RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS.

Referring to the recent debate upon : these. resolutions, the. Gyey.. River . Argus. says : — " It is only 'paying ordinary respect to the West r Coast; members to suppose that the. v ppiuions^expressed were ? np effect of; a sudden buret of enthusiasm, but the reßulC 'of some. careful thought as ip- the alter ed a'specl 'o'f /; the.^scHeme. ( .There is no gainßay ing, the, .fact . that, in.commoQ with dth^ers'bh the 'Coast, they have been opposed to the Nelson scheme in the form,, in which it was originally propounded, and io which it was revised ; by<the Inland Communicatioh Committee. :, They, could'" not do otherwise than question -the propriety *'*6f granting to- English" contractors.O&nS.iimmense ;, area^ of mineral country, or of doing the same for a company such as.that. which the Nelspn-pubjiq-were sanguine enough^tp. ...suppose!. -theyl. could floaty c-They, no doubt, considered that mortgaging certain territory to the General Government, was: a v,ery}* different affair, and, furthei, that if extra liability was imposed upon the Province, it was a liabilit^"which t there was a fair 'prospect of meeting, so Jong as it was the .Go ver n- / ment's intention to make the line not merely a Provincial one, but a link to the great chain of railway communication which it is proppsed should extend from Nelson to the tßluff. It Ms in that con-.; uection chiefly that the scheme deserves the favorable consideration which sit was now received, and it ja reasonable to suppose that' the West Coast members of the >- Council,- in their objections •to it, "did jsp particularly because "pf. ", that , ultimate' prospect: '*■ - Viewed ['-i rom a West; Coast point of vieVj^railway connection' with Nplspn isc "pf ■ np { mpte cotieequenqe than it ever was .iperx&eyjiwt as an ingred^nt.essenjia^to <the> ppmpletipn of ,»a.l main line from the. mos|t northerly to the most southerly point in the Middle Island, it is of consequence, and it may be ac-

icepted that that/ts;,.the "view by which our members were;;gui|l.e;d. The one district m which objectiobjtb the scheme, and to ithe assertion that^tjwill be of advantage to " all parts," is likely to be made is the district of Westport; to which a branch line is not yet proposed, but it has to be remembered, by the residents qf that district that the Premier distinctly ; prefaced his approval of the scheme by stating that no share of the land security should come from the Lower Buller Valley, and with its superior port, river, and resources, and with the prospect of the early construction of a railway connecting it with its extensive coalfields, Westport will, for a time at least, be " bauld to cbmpleen."