CHRISTCHURCH.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4526, 7 July 1883, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH.

Yesterday.

At a welUattended meeting of the railway League Committee, the following resolutions were unanimously passed, they will not agree with some of the deductions of the East and West Coast Railway Commissioners :—" The Committee of this League records its high appreciation of the efficiency, thoroughness, and intelligence with which they have fulfilled the important work imposed on them ; that the Committee regards their report as not only throwing much interesting light on the main fact that there is a call for railway communication with the West Coast, but as being in many important respects confirmatory of the justness of the arrangements of which this League has before based its advocacy of the scheme, and that the Committee of this League regard with satisfaction the action of those Can terbury members who are advocating in Parliament the merits of the East and West Coast Railway, and the impolicy of constructing the Middle Island Trunk line along the East Coast; and that the thanks of this Committee be conveyed to these members, accompanied by the earnest hope that their efforts will be successful in securing the practical recognition on the part of the Legislature, of the justness of the claim of the district for railway communication with the West Coast.—A sub-committee was appointed to digest the Commissioner's report for a general meeting of the League, and i< was resolred to send a copy of the first reso» lution to Captain Russell, and a second to Mr J. Evans Brown.