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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 34, 8 February 1879, Page 2

To the Editor of the " Evening Mail.'* Sir, —l see by the telegrams of your yesterday's issue that the so called Auiberley and Cooks Straits line of railway will be made from the Canterbury end, and not from the Fox Hill, which was the plan the Ministers and theirsupportersadopted inorder to gull the Nelson members into compliance, also to lull us to another nap. The question for Nelson people is to consider what is to be done. My humble opinion is, and always was, that the Ministers never intended that it should come to Nelson. It is either intended to be taken to Blenheim or over to the Top House, and from thence to Nelson, in the course of five to ten years time, wheu every village in Canterbury and Otago ha3 a rail-

way to it. If our members had been as wide awake as we gare them credit for, they oilght to have insisted upon having a particalar route and terminus mentioned, so that we would hate known what was meant. I hope you will be kind enough to insert this, hoping to arouse the Nelson people to consider how to remove every incubus from among us, and make a vigorous start for that prosperity which seems natural to Nelson, seeing that she is gifted with an unrivalled climate and immense mines of wealth. 1 am, fee , Eiuck Orr. Nelson, February 7th, 1879.