THE NELSON EXAMINED. Tuesday, Jult 3, 1866.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 81, 3 July 1866, Page 2

THE NELSON EXAMINED. Tuesday, Jult 3, 1866.

Journal* become more necessary as men become more equal and individualism more to be feared. It would be to underrate their importation to suppose that they serve only to secure liberty ; they maintain omlization.

D« TOCQXJBTILLJ, Of Democracy in Amerioa, vol. 5, 230.

We trust we are not premature in congratulating the people of Nelson on the prospect of obtaining a railway between the port and the Weßt Coast of the province. TMie scheme of paying for tlie construction of a railway from the City of Nelson, to Cobden, at the mouth of the Grey river, by a grant of the waste land of the province, so ably brought before the Provincial Council during its late session by Mr. E. Kelling, is not, we are informed, to fail through the absence of capitalists willing to undertake the work, nor through the opposition of the Colonial Government. "We have learnt from Mr. Coe, a railway engineer of some experience now in Nelson, that the firm of Messrs. Young and Co, of Melbourne, representing a body of capitalists in that city, are prepared to enter into negotiations with our Government for the execution of the work. We believe Mr. Young only waits to hear that the Colonial Government will sanction the necessary alienation of the waste lands, to induce him to come to Nelson and negotiate with the Superintendent for the execution of the work. We are informed that Mr. Saunders, during his late visit to Wellington, obtained the assurance of Mr. Stafford that the scheme should have the support of his Government, and we expect to see a bill laid before the Assembly, early in the session, to legalize the proceeding. Supposing this to paBS (and we do not see on what ground it can well be opposed), we have every reason to believe that our Government may be able 1 to successfully negotiate for the construction of our railway with capitalists in Melbourne, and thus effect a considerable saving in the time it would occupy to have made all the arrangements in London. We sincerely hope arrangements will be made, satisfactory to both parties, and that the work, commenced at no distant day, will be proceeded with rapidly. The construction of this railway is of the utmost importance to Nelson, and would so stimulate commercial activity, as to cause us to rank among the leading nrovincea of the colony.