EAST AND WEST COAST RAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5253, 27 July 1885, Page 2

EAST AND WEST COAST RAIL.

• ' ■ CHRiSTOBTOBca, July 24. . The number of signatures to the Wesi;. Coast railway, petition has' been largely increased to-day; ;', The Mayor has called a public meeting; for Monday night to consider the ; subject. „•.,,, , : /. '■;: ; . .July 26. The second instalment of the East; and West Coast Railway' petition was sent to Wellington last- night. Nearly 7000 signatures have been obtained up to; the present time; f ■..■■■■■'.-..■■'-'■ \ At a public meeting in Stanmore ! last nighty. it wjas resolved^ to; request^ all: the Canterbury' members to 'do their ! best to carry the proposals now before Parliaments " " ■ '; • ■' •' .;' , c Nelson, July 24. At a meeting"; of the City Council of Nelson to-night~th.e.v;fpllowing resolution ,was .carried, unanimously i^'^-That 'this Councii. entirely- agrees \ withthe proposals of the £ Gbvtfniment : on the subject of; the Nelson. and East^^ ancl;We^tiC.Qaat ( ;railways, and that this resolution beY-telegraphed to^ the Government." ; «--// : \C^- ;-■ '.'.-!.,.:. , : ;-//J«ly26. Last eveningiajpetition praying that the proposal reiative to the w est Coast Railway^ might becarried into) effect [was pre- , pared -with the view to its being forwarded by steamer to-night. ■ During last evening it was signed by about fifteen hundred people. ;..,'.■:■.