THE NELSON AND COBDEN RAILWAY.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 534, 24 July 1869, Page 2

THE NELSON AND COBDEN RAILWAY.

In the House of Representatives, on July 7th, Mr Curtis moved, That the Nelson and Cobden Railway Act Amendment Bill be read a second time. The amendments proposed to be effected in the Act were two only, and were made at the suggestion of a number of influential persons in England who were prepared to undertake the formation of a Company if these modifications of the existing Act, which appeared to him to be reasonable, wore agreed to by the General Assembly. The first was to extend the area within which land to be given for the construe ion of the railway could be selected, but no alteration was proposed as to the extent of land to be given. Tho second amendment was to provide for the payment of the preliminary expenses necessarily attendant upon the formation of a Company, by appropriating an additional portion of the waste lands of the Crown within the Province, a limit as to the amount of those expenses remaining to be fixed. He trusted that, looking at the great importance of the measure, not only as regarded the progress and prosperity of the Province of Nelson, but with regard to the prosperity of the whole colony, the House would consent to the Bill at once passing its second reading. The bill was read a second time, and was ordered to be committed next day. The Nelson Mail states that letters have been received from Mr Morrison, stating that owing to the uneasy feeling created in the English Money Market by the hostile attitude of the United States, Colonel Maude has not thought it desirable to push forward his prospectus for the railway until a feeling of greater security prevails.