WEST COAST RAILWAY.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1496, 14 January 1885, Page 2

WEST COAST RAILWAY.

(Christchurch re*s )

A meeting of the guarantors of the West Coast Railway was h^ld on Tn»»s o*jy. Mr C. C. Bowen, who occupied the chair, siid that it was understood that thn Committee sliould report to the guarantors the result of their negotiation with the elson d^leorates. Messrs Ffll and Sclandfrs (\t % n-> d->wi from Niison and met the Comumtef. and after di^ciKsiM^ the whole m itto 1 ' it was lesolved on terms th\t w»'ie satisfactory to both parties that the rail »-ay from Clh istc! inch to Brnn-

nerton and that from Bninnertfvi tn N'dson slwuM b*> put ou t!i« Lonilon niiirki-t as on»* joint srhfnae. At t!ie la«t meeting be had stated ratny of the reasons that influenced tl>«« Committee in desiring to accept the invitation of Nelson to ne<y>tiate. It \v;*s an important matter, and tlu*ir was ronn for difference of opinion, '>n f h. 1 hop d that the gnni'nntoi-s would b«- lmai-i---nioits in their effort to give lß^'l 'o ay deteriniuation that miyht he ,t.rived at. Nelson Committee were * t ing oil tll»* same conditions as o-v elves. Tt was nndHr«t"nrl th»t tlik . eiitlfine:i w o hud tak-n t.i ■ utit'

up doth hrveand in Nelson Liu.i done : " ou (tuMio grounds *ud had takeu it 0..

lheais«lv.-s:iH rfp -se it ifiws of iiu'i' c interests. Their '.va- . . n.. 1 o f promoting Rjv».-uliirio 1 v. ; !■ ,;;■■■ r, aid the only pricr- h ' : , • e d from intendi:,^ c» t.ra -t ><•* wy.\) I h* the repavm* nt «»f ;il! pi-oli utiarv rx penses ii.«uiitd. I was otexi-ctrd th.it thf-e would be any d!fiL'n,'ty in olif-iiiii'i'4 ,'«: i a tors f >:• an amount sutii ,c tfo i-liivsp excises. A consid- «•• -iUe su-ii had hpf-n ul esidy übs ribod i 1 N- U) 1, ,is -vt.H a; 1 1 Car* \u -f, ;r-il <.n rli \V st Coasi the B*i:n*» ptiM'fc spiri*. had b-eu siio,*^. I- was «r---i-as.^e-! thit .Mi- Fell vnuld accoi N pa>y tiie C!iMStchn!vhdel','atts to E-i^ltnd. Mr Fell, tie C-iiwii i>.!icitor for N f so,, wjs engaged with Mr Scott till a lute hour 1 »st eve:«i ■.% in ari-aigi:i^ ih^ co.nhiitd c.» ifcr»e f ,. The M^v m leave here fo.- London by t'.in B.M.S.S. Tonjaiiro on the 17t.i instant.