THE TRACK TO THE KARAMEA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 142, 20 June 1867, Page 3

THE TRACK TO THE KARAMEA.

To the Editor op the 'Nelson Evening Mail.' Sir — I wish publicly to thank you for the interest you have taken in the affair of my pass to the Karamea, and for the able manner in -which you have advocated the subject. I feel greatly indebted to you, for still having faith in me, when all or nearly all others liad become faithless. I wish also to thank Messrs. Elliott and Webb, Dr. Irving, and Mr. Rigby, for the interest they have taken in this matter. To you aud to them I owe it, that at last my truthfulness has been vindicated. I wish also especially, to thank his Honor the Superintendent, for the part he has taken, and the business-like manner in which he has carried this long-vexed question to its issue, and that he has not suffered himself to be hoodwinked as his predecessors have been. It feels refreshing to have a Superintendent who has got a mind of his own. 1 wish also to thank Messrs. Collins and Mackay, Mr. Snow and Mr. Woodhouse, for their honorable conduct in following my tracings, as far as practicable. I must be permitted to say that had they only have been as honestly followed by parties sentoutby the government, the same results must have followed. Had this been done four and a-balf years ago, when I first pointed it out to the Government, and also the open valley behind the Mount Arthur Ranges, we should not only long ago have been connected with the Karamea, but also with the Buller, with one half the amount which it has cost the Government since that time in making roads which lead nowhere, in order to get to the same place?. Moreover, the whole of the valley runuing behind the Wangapeka ranges and the Motueka ranges do%vn to Takaka, would doubtless, long ere this, have been peopled -with thousands of diggers^ and the Government would have been richer ! to-day by tens of thousands, as well , as the 'public. I have just seen Mr. J Snow, and he states that he caunot see ] the shadow of a difficulty in making a dray road from the Batou to the Karamea. Yours, etc., W. Hough. Nelson, 19th June, 1867P.S. — I have just seen Mr. Mackay, and he states that without auy sidings ■whatever, he believes that were the timber cut, he could drive a team of bullocks over the saddle, into the valley below. He is very much pleased with the pass, and states also that from all he has seen, there is no other place where a dray road can be got over, even if you search for 20 years.

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