THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, MAY 31, 1880.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 31 May 1880, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY MONDAY, MAY 31, 1880.

f TtfE Fox-hill — Brunnerton railway has [ pver been a kind of Qolden 'Fleece to ': the peqp»e of -NeliQß- Ip the full be- ' }ifcf that tijnp $ oqld bring with ft the yeal'satiop of thp long cherigbed (beam % Jhafc Nelson was dpstiped to become \ \ he great entrppot for the of the West Coast, tbp inhabitant there ;' Jiave been patient ano! vafFchfql. The * frhole energies of the community have |jeen concentrated upon the accom* ; plishment of that one undertaking. • ffhe subject haf formed tlje burcjep of pll election speeches deliyered there from a period so far back tljat the t pjpmory of map pot to the I pontrary, apd still the tqpic haa lost \. - pone of its freshness and enchant* f pent for the northern bpcolic mind. I f^atterly, however, the dream has been I father rpdely disturbed, and aa the i pffects of tbp long stppor are gearing K ptf the people ?eep] to begin tp realise 1 jiow baseless has been tbfl fabric of f : jtbeir dream- Cf course it is not pom--1 forting to Sad out; that one has been I jmgging a delusion, apd Nelson is Veil I B^akenipg to the fapt that she; has i; |?aste<} thp bloom of her youth in that I and profitle|_j QJcnpa- | fiion, and tbp tepdency now appears to V J?e in favor of something more practi r [ pal. Although the action of tbg pres- ; pnt Government in throwing that line f PY^r inflicts some kind of injustice tipoq the northern city, the wisdom of ih9 l te P cannot he question. Hat} tfee 1 ' %

j policy of l^he G#ver pjnent been to plftj* j | fast and loose witl? the people ,of gelggp j ; and Up. m\f ay, fchey c#uld easily &aye ' > done so, ejther by throwing!?. *-o.h , present jiop, and allowing i%f people i to dream tranquilly on, or Rome-' elaborate whicl. the pir.cnm<» > i stances of tbe Colony woo 14 never I enable them to fulfill. Instead howj ever, pi dping this; ip?t^ of farther ! feeding the folly which has so long: captiyated the Nelson people, and di- . verted their energies from more useful i and feasibly aijns, tke Government has taken the eminantly xpore honorable and candid course of firmly vetoeing the undertaking. The announcement not unnaturally created a deal of dif? ■ appointment in Nelson, and an afflti" ence of declamation, b#t nothing more serioijs Nothing less thin this was 1 to be expected, but there are symptoms of returning reason. In a late i issue of , one of the city papers there is a letter recommending the complete abandonment of all hope in the realisation ofthe railway project, and urg* ing agitation in f??or of opening a coach road between Nelson and Reef* ton, with bridgjes oyer all the principal rivers. This is an emipent'y more practical suggeston, and had ap agitation with that object in view been act on foot there five years ggo, there is little to doqbt tbat long ere this the communication would have been open.