[njelson mail] The members of the deputation sent to Wellington by the Inland Communication Committee returned on Friday last and have brought with them news of a -most cheering nature. Had they merely en listed the sympathies of the Government in the work on which the people of Nelsoii have set their hearts to such an extent as to render it secure from opposition at head-quarters they would have done good service, but when, in addition to this, we --'Sind that they have obtained a promise from the Executive to render active as sistance, we may indeed congratulate our selves: upon the success that has attended their receut visit to the seat of Govern ment. One of the results of that visit has been that the scheme has assumed far larger and more important proportions than were originally contemplated by the Committee to whom it owes its birth. Their idea was merely to fpen up the country lying between here and Grey mouth, and to connect Nelson with the West Coast, but it is now suggested by Mr Yogel, who has promised material aid towards carryiug out his proposition, that the railway shall not be merely an iso lated line between the capital of the Pro yinc and : its western extremities, but that it shall be extended to the boundaries of the Canterbury Province, thus ensuring to the town of Nelson the position which nature seems to have meant her to occupy of the northern terminus of the .great trunk line which at no very distant date will run from, one end of the island to the other. A prospect is thus opened up for our hitherto quiet little town, which, in the outset of the movement that has brought about the proposition no>w before the Committee, was scarcely thought of even bjthpse who were most sanguine <of success. It is scarcely necessary to en large upon the advantages that would accrue to Nelson from the carrying out of such a scheme «s that shadowed forth by the Colonial Government, for they must be patent to all ; but we would once more remind those interested in tho matter, ani in that category 1 may be included every resident in the eastern, middle, and western districts of the Province, 'that upon them?eJves depends the ultimate success of, this undertaking. 