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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1703, 19 January 1874, Page 2

A notice appears in our advertisings columns convening a meeting, to be held, at Gilmer's Hall to- morrovr evening. The objects of the promoters of this meeting are that, either by resolution, or by the appointment of a Progress Committee, pressure may be brought upon the General Government with regard to the Harbor Works of thepwt, the Hochstetter Waterrace, the completion of the road to Reefton, and to secure a thorough representation- of the Grey Valley District upon the Electoral Roll. It is intended that meeting shall be one of an entirely representative character, and one the purposes of which everyone, of whatever party or section who is desirous of furthering the common "prosperity of the town and district, can heartily support. Mush good has been accomplished by meetings of this character in other parts of the Colony. Take, for example, the Nelson Inland Communication Committee ; it was very largely due to the action of this body that the Government expedited the construction of the Foxhill railway, and made diversions from the original design more agreeable to the inhabitants. The Waikato settlers would riot have got the railway extension to the frontier authorised last session but for the active agitation they kept up. Other instances could be men--tioned, but these will suffice to show that public agitation of this kind is often valuable. This port and district are in a critical period of existence. They are on the eve of great changes, and the community should show that they are fully alive to this. The recent discoveries of coal in the neighborhood, and the necessity for the full development of the seams up the river, render the pushing on of the Harbor Works an instant necessity, and nothing should be left, undone to urge the Government on with them. The question of constructing the Hochstetter aud Randall's Creek Water-races is of .no. inferior importance. Upon these races being made depends very greatly the future prosperity of the gold-fields. We may here iemind our readers that it was aa much due to public agitation a3 to anything else that led to the prosecution of the Waimea race. We trust that the meeting will be largely attended.