The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1291, 31 August 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1883.

Is accordance with a resolution passed at the last meeting of the Inangahua County Council, the Chairman of that body left Reefton for Wellington yesterday mc^ingTMVbat <jhe exact nature of Me Brennan's mission is has not been disclosed, but it is to be presumed that it is a public one, and of some urgency. In view of the facts published by us lately as to the man ncr in which this County has been treated by the Government, the necessity of the Chairman's visit to Welling-, tou will be recognised on all sides. It lias been shown that although Inangahua is one of the most important electorates on the West Coast, and the County territorially the largest in this part of the Colony, the proportion of the public expenditure voted this year is less than that allocated to many of the smallest Counties in New Zealand. Iv the case of the other West Coast Counties, Greymouth receives five times more, Westport nearly four times, Westland, three times and Kumara nearly double the amount voted to Inangahua. This too in the face of the fact furnished in the Goldfields Report that Inangahua is the only field in the Colony where the gold

yield is on the increase. Ttisunneces- been j sary for us to suggest the reason of this city, unfair an unequal treatment by the Adn Government of the Inaitgahua County, lieve A The cause must be by this time but too Frencl well appareut to everyone. Through- Rec out the present session the district has been practically left to look out for it- T De self, and it is high time that the local t^ at body should realise its time position F reno i and act accordingly. for a c