The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1868.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 433, 19 December 1868, Page 2

The Westport Times AND CHARLESTON ARGUS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1868.

It would be a manifest injustice to the Progress Committee, and to the important character of the subjects which were brought before their meeting yesterday, to report their proceedings otherwise than at full length • and that we are unable to do in our present number. Both the subjects, and the manner in which they were treated, justify us in giving a very full report, as we shall do on Monday, and in directing special attention to the questions which were under discussion. Two of these questions were the maintenance of the Municipal Reserve, which has already been referred to in the same spirit as it was dealt with by the Committee, and the

still more important—for the future

the inevitably great—question of the , establishmentofthewestern part of the Nelson Province as a separate County. We use the words " for the future " because the latter is a subject which has not hitherto been dealt with seriously by the inhabitants of this part of the Province, and because, from the tone of the Committee, it is now apparently to be dealt with prominently and practically, and not merely as a theory in which other parts of the eountry alone are interested. Another subject incidentally, and only incidentally, referred to by the Committee was the report of the Provincial Engineer on the protective works required for Westport—areport the concluding portion of which we publish to-day, and which, in its entirety, will well repay perusal, as it is a report which, financially, is much more favorablo than was expected to emanate from Mr Blackett, while it -contains some very feasible sugges-

tions in connection with three subjects —the river works, tramways to the gold mines, and the railway to the iMftunt Eochfort coal-field.