CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 222, 30 September 1879, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To T/iE Editor op the " Evening Mail." Sir— The Princess Louise has been catching salmon ia Canada. To-morrow ia the Ist of October. Is it because fishing is a roya sport that our democratic Government have failed, neglected, or refused to gazette the opening of the trout fishing here at the usual date? Is it to spite the Nelson members and electors? Is it to spite the Nelson boys? Is it to injure the passenger traffic on our little ewe-lamb, the Foxhill railway? Is it from sheer incompetency and slovenliness in the ordinary routine work the servants or masters of the public are paid to do? Is it that the trout i 3 spotted and the Maori tattooed, and both are to be protected? Is it that Government have a fellow feeling for everything that is fishy? Our surveyors may be shot down; our steamers barred by savages and assassins from navigating our inland waters; our properties may be taxed to increase the value and unearned increment of aboriginal holdings, to pay for tangis, and to give an outing to dusky beauties, and we might bear it, but this last injury is unbearable. The trodden worm and trodden fisherman alike will turn. The Government must go out. No sportsman, I wish I could answer for the member for Waimea, can give them a vote. I am, &c, >T , J- C. Andrew. Nelson, Sept. 30, 1879