MR. HOLLOWAY'S VISIT TO NELSON AND MARLBOROUGH.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4153, 13 July 1874, Page 3

MR. HOLLOWAY'S VISIT TO NELSON AND MARLBOROUGH.

Mr. Holloway, of the English Laborers' Union, has' i completed his tour of the Middle Island by a visit to the Provinces of Nelson and Marlborough. Of his extensive tour of the first-mentioned Province, the Colonist says : " The time at his disposal being limited, ho was obliged to use method with his work. Having ascertained that Nelson had no claims to be considered an agricultural Province, he directed his attention almost exclusively to its mineral resources. Mr. Holloway first set foot upon Nelson soil at Cobden. The Superintendent telegraphed to Mr. Warden Whitefoord, who met our visitor at Greymouth, and at the expense of the Province took him to the Brunuer mine and escorted him up the Grey Valley. There he was met by Mr. Warden Broad, who showed him through the 'Wealth of Nations,' the 'Golden Ledge,' and other claims in the Eeefton district. From Keefton he was taken to the Lyell, and up the Buller Valley to Hampden. He made the journey from Hampden to Fox Hill under the guidanceof Mr. Edward Keane. In Nelson he was lodged at Panama House as the guest of the Province, and during his short stay was shown all our public buildings, and the chief features of beauty in the neighborhood of the city by the Superintendent. Before sailing for Pioton he paid a flying visit to Colliugwood, where ho was taken to the Oollingwood Coal Company's mine, and to the Para Para hematite deposits. Ho expressed himself as highly gratified with his visit to the Province, and predicted an important future for our mineral operations. Ho was surprised at tho amount of machinery that had been erected in tho Beefton and Lyell districts, 'under great disadvantages ; _aud re-

gretted that the Para Para Iron and Coal Company had not been floated in England at once, where, he was certain, the-capital would have been found for it without any difficulty." "Nelson is not wont to make a great stir about strangers ; as witness the late visit of the Governor. But in Mr. Holloway's case all has been done that the economical Government of a poor Province could be expected to do. His reception has been plain and unpretending, but it was business-like. He was enabled to form a comprehensive and correct opinion of the resources of the Province without any cost to himself, and we will venture to say that there is not a man among us who could go to England to-morrow and give a shrewder or more reliable opinion upon the advantages or otherwise of the Province of Nelson to intending emigrants than Mr. Holloway will now be in a position to do." Speaking of his visit to Marlborough, the Press says :—" Mi'. Holloway's visit to this part has happened at an unseasonable time, and when nature has put on her most uninviting aspect. It is better that it is so, as the capabilities of the place will not be exaggerated, and it will enable Mr. Holloway to give some account of the discomforts immigrants must occasionally expect to encounter. He intends leaving for Blenheim, and after visiting the Wairau district, will return in time to leave by the steamer on Friday."