WHAT RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 250, 21 October 1874, Page 2

WHAT RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT

IS DOING for thb CITY of NELSON To thb EniToa ob* ths Evening Mail. Sib— BQr-gQodienpugh tp allow me to call the Mention o. oiur fellow-citizens to the abstract ofthe Provincial disbursements last quarter as published in the Provincial Go- I vernment Gazette. I While our town bridges are positively unsafe and utterly uncart d for, not a sixpence having been spent in thsir mainten ince, no less than £1160 has been sptnt for that purpose on the West Coast. Sift the whole ot the items, and there is only J>so Fire Brigades and X7O payen and Waim<ja roada, ? that prop^rij? belongs 't<sr ihe 'City.) /Ojat lot tne other items about £2.0 te the City's proportion. The total expenditure ia about £16,000, an I the revenue about a similar amount, not onethird of which-comea from the West -Coast r - , while they expend more than two-thirds. The sea wali o f our harbor is at present in a disgraceful a^ate, and it belongs to the province to keep it in order. It behoves the citizens to make a stand tßgftirist: theS rafes being used for thia pacpdieJ' '. .-.'•' ls. '7.7* J . I would recommend the League aud some bf the Councillors w ho continually setting up theirjbacks against! the -Slayer to aß.i_t ; them and their brother Councillors in this matter "/ , : Is the Reform League so wrapped : up ia their new idol Jupiter, who has filled their their ejes with West Const dust (would ifc were gold dost)' that they totally and utterly Ignore the interests ofthe city ?—I am, &c., ' .• ; ; A NTI-RePOBM . . The Marquis of Normanby, says the Brisbane correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, will leave Brisbane to proceed to his new government on or about the 12th November. This will enable him to carry jits commission in his pocket. He caonot go direct to Wellington except, via Melbourne, which would involve two transhipments, and he therefore purposes p-fceeding to Sydney, and thence to Auckland, which will probably have to regard that visit as the vice-regal bow.which would .sooner jor later be made. The staff will consist of Captain" Maling 0 (35th ,f JK.giment)J=" Secretary und Lord Hervey Phipps, a son of the ; Marqbis, ss A.D.C;