THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1881.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 29 June 1881, Page 2

THE Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1881.

Oub telegrams this morning fu'r'nisi* a crumb of comfort regarding the East and West Cosat railway. It is stated that Mr Travers and Mr Weston. M.H.E., have been invited by the Government to jointly dfaft a Sill providing for concessions of land to private railway companies for railway construction. This mode of procedure has the merit of being somewhat singular, but the reason of the selection of Messrs Weston and Travers for the purpose is probably to be found in the fact that both gentlemen have for some time past; taken a leading part in the railway agitation, the former as the champion of the Christ* church to Greymouth line, and the latter as the chief advocate of the Wellington toWanganui line. We must confess, however, that we hardly like the announcement as an indication of the r#a"l intentions of the Government on the subject. In the first place, it hardly squares with the announcement made at the opening of Parliament that it was the intention of the Government to introduce : such a Bill. If the intention to intro« dnce such a measure bad been really seriously entertained, it would be imagined that something would have been don? towards drafting it before this The intrests bound up in such a measure would be enormous, and it is hard therefore to understand why the Government should have treated it so lightly as to overlook it up to the present time/ and now show such apparent disregard of the measure as to shift its drafting on to other bands. We shall await further information on the subject with some dec gree of anxieiy.