NELSON. 4th September.

Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 4 September 1878, Page 2

NELSON. 4th September.

A crowded and enthusiastic meeting of town and country people was held in the Provincial Hall last night, to consider the Public Works Statement. In the absence of the Mayo-, Mr. J. W. Barnicoat, Chairman of the Waimea County Council, presided Speeches were made showing how faith had been broken with Nelson in the matter of the West Coast railway: 1 . The following resolutions were passed unanimously : — (1) Moved by Mr. Acton Alams, and seconded by Mr. S'-landera, " That the essence of the Public Works Policy was the construction of a main trunk line through both Islands, and the people of Nelson supported the policy on that ground, and by the Public Works Statement of successive Governments, and by the Railway Act, 1873, the line from Nelson to the West Coast, and thence to Canterbury, was recognised as part of that main trunk line ;'.' (2) Moved by Mr. Joseph Shephard, and seconded by the Bishop of Nelson, '-That, under the *cheme now proposed to fill up the other gaps in the trunk system, the construction of the northern part of the main Hue ia the Middle Island is indefinitely postponed, to the injury of the people resident in Nelson and Marlborough ;" (3) " That this meeting views with the utmost alarm, the proposal of Government to entirely exclude this district from all participation in the new works to be undertaken within the next five years ; " (4) " That the Nelson representatives be requested to bring the foregoing resolution under tbe netice of the Government and before the Assembly, and 111 1 use their utmost endeavors to procure some material modification of the present Ministerial proposals, which, if carried into effect, will inflict much gross injustice upon those residing in the northern part of this island."