Correspondence.

Press, Volume VIII, Issue 840, 10 July 1865, Page 2

Correspondence.

I TO THX EDUOB OF SHE ' CBXBS.' Sib,—Your news in regard to the urgeaey • of expediting the work necessary to complete \ the commanicatioa between this and the Week ; Coast, are bo clearly and logically drawn that C X cannot conceive how the Government and people of this province can refrain from at r once adopting your suggestion of completing at any cost, and without a day's delay, the dray „- road (for I contend that is of primary import* ance) at present in hand. I hare hitherto l>een one who has catiQed > at the action of the Government in taie natter,

miaiTi linp- them to be wanting in the neceemxr experience to enable them to see fa immense importance of the West ■fjOHrf Goldfielde to this province at large; &nt sxnce they hare shown a willingness *to learn, and to act on the leuon received, I cone Her it unfair to have a factious opposition thrown in their way. I can fully entone your statement in regard to what has beta done in Australia (my experience of goldfield* dating from the palmy days of California in 1849) n> the matter of roads to gold fields; east being a secondry What is matted » promptitude of action; and 500 or 1000 men, if necessary, working on the west fide, and the present contracts pushed forward trith Tigor, would, I think, fully meet the case. Those who bare not witnessed tbe impetus •iren to all classes of trade by the opening of a rich and extensive goldfield (and which ufest Coast on all hands is now conceded to be) cannot possibly realise the magical change brought about —the plenitude of money which foffnws y a change that I think few would object to just now, and the general activity and bosMe which ensues, converting a comparatively sleepy, do-nothing population, full d <& prejudices, to an enterprising business-like community. . ».«-*_ That such is the change vre shall witness hare on the completion of a good coach road to the West Coast is to my mind as certain as that st present I subscribe myself VUTDMC