The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1884.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1439, 3 September 1884, Page 2

The Inangahua Times, PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1884.

As will be seen by our telegrams this morning, the task of forming a Ministry haa devolved once more on Mr Stout, and there is very little doubt that he will this time succeed in forming a Cabinet that will command the support of a majority of the House. An inaugural soiree in conncetion with the Presbyterian Church, Reefton, will be held in the Oddfellows Hall, thia evening, and promises to be very largely attended. A Bpecial meeting of the Little Grey School Committee was held on the 27th inst., for the purpose of making application to the Central Board for a special grant for school furniture, also to deal with other correspondence to hand. Present: Messrs M'Neill junr, (Chair), M'lnroe, Fitzgerald, and Pendergast. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Proposed by Mr Pendergast— That the outward and inward correspondence be approved of, seconded by Mr FitzGerald and carried. The Chairman read a letter from the Reefton School Committee, asking that a delegate be appointed to meet other delegates at Reefton, for the purpose of discussing the advisability of separation from the .Nelson and joining the Greymouth Education District. Proposed by Mr FitzGerald, seconded by Mr M'lnroe, and carried •- That the Chairman be appointed delegate and urge upon the meeting the advisability of having the Central Board's abolished. Resolved - That the Board be informed that the probable number of scholars in attendance at the opening wilt be twenty-six. Proposed by Mr FitzGerald, seconded by Mr Pendergast —That the Committee make application to the Board for a special grant of £35, so as to enable them to have the building completed at once. Carried. Resolved— That the Committee apply for first instalment due to contractor *to be placed to their credit in the Bank of New Zealand, Reefton. After some more business of a formal nature had been gone through a vote of thanks was passed to the Chair, and the meeting adjourned. At. a meeting of the State School Comi niittee on Monday evening last the tender of J. Harferd, was accepted for painting the school building, the price being £41 I4s€d. We learn that all arrangements have been completed for resuming crushing at the Inkerman battery this morning, but as communication with Rainy Creek was cut ■ off yesterday, owing to the flooded state of the river, the starting of the stampers may have to be delayed until to-morrow morning. Mr Walker, the newly appointed manager of the Golden Fleece United Company, has reached Reefton, and will enter upon his duties at once. Th.c Company have had four men engaged in the mine for some time past, who have been driving on the main level for a block of stone which is known to exist in that part 1 of the mine. We understand that had the last Atkinson — Wakefield Ministry remained in power a tender would have been accepted immediately for the extension of the Brunnerton railway to the Arnold, and a survey of the extension to Nelson Creek proceeded with at once. If our information is correct it was upon this distinct understanding that Messrs Guinness and Menteath supported the Ministry. It will be remembered that the vote for the extension of the Brunner railway to the Arnold had already been voted by a previous parliament, so that all that was stipulated for was that the new Government should carry out a pledge already given to the people of the Grey Valley and Inangahua, and this they undertook to do. The circumstance will go to explain the reason of the Grey and Inangahua members voting for the Ministry on that occasion, and would fully justify their action. The extension of the Brunner railway to Nelson Creek would be an important link of the East and West Coast railway, and besides the advantage whioh its construction would immediately confer upon the people of both the Grey Valley and Inangahua would add another powerful reason in favor of the adoption of the Cannibal Gorge route for the East and West Coast railway. Whatever may be the morality of a Government thus yielding at a critical time to the pressure of its supporters is an ethical question we can afford to leave others to discuss. Past experience has taught us on the West Coast that our system of representation runs after all pretty much with the adage

" He that will not when he may,

When he would shall have nay " The members for Grey and Inangahua seem t<> have realised the truth of the saying ana acted upon it, and the only regret for the people here seems to be that the thing didn't "come off." The objections of this part of the colony against the former Atkinson Government were political, not personal. They were blamed for systematically neglecting our interests, but provided that party, or any View combination if it, were prepared to pledge themselves to do us just ice in the way of public expenditure, a Government under Major Atkinson would be just as acceptable as any other. This seems to have been the view taken by Messrs Menteath and Guinness, and in it we see nothing to which exception can be taken.

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