Correspondence.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 144, 22 June 1867, Page 2

Correspondence.

ME. STEVENS' RAILWAY SCHEME.

To the Editor of the 4 Nelson Evening Mail.' Sir —l see au attack upon "Moonshine" made by Mr. Kelling in the Provincial Council on the 19th, reported by your contemporary the Colo?iist this morning. I have not time to-day to write at length in reply to Mr. Kelling ; but, seeing that he is enamoured of the railway scheme, I think he should not be so hard upon "Moonshine," which has always been considered favourable to love-sick fancies. Mr. Kelliug's argument is strong, sir ! very strong! ! I take leave to quote the words used: —"Now he (Mr. Kelling) knew all about Mr, Stevens, for Mr. Stevens had himself told him," &c, &c. This line of argument is undeuiable. Who should know more about Mr. Stevens than Mr. Stevens himself? and what better authority could Mr. Keliing want ? If Mr. Stevens tells Mr. Kelling that he had been to the moon, that it was made of green cheese, and that he had made the acquaintance of the old man there who had been exalted for "cutting sticks ou Sunday," of course it must be so, for has not Mr. Stevens told him ? But I think the man in the moon might have given his visitor a line of introduction. But, sir, if Mr. Stevens is "a man of standing on the Stock Exchange in London," as he reports himself to Mr. Kelling to be, is it not strange that men in the colony, who are familiar with London houses, know nothing about him —that his name does not appear upon the London Stock Exchange list —tbat he is unaccredited to the Government of this Province by any one —in fact, that, except to Mr. Kelling, he is as great a stranger here as if he had dropt from the moon ? But, it would seem, Mr. Kelling has some other object in view, which he is keeping dark. By his own account, "he is the original mover of the scheme, and he has been keeping very quiet about it for the. last twelve months." Now, here is a novelty ! lam not aware that, prior to twelve mouths, Mr. Kelling made any great noise about his scheme. And are we to suppose that during this period of "quietness," Messrs. Stevens and Kelling have between them been dividing the labor of iucubation ? Sir, as I said, lam too hurried to write more to-day, but I much fear Mr. Kelling will fiud the railway scheme —a mare's nest, or all Moonshine. Nelson, 21st June, 1867.