GORE-WAIKAKA RAILWAY.

GORE, April 18

The Acting-Premier, the Hon. Mir HallJones, turned the first sod of the GoreWaikaka railway to-day in the presence of a large gathering of district (residents. The Mdmdster, in the coujnse of a speech, Etated that he had received) intimation that £50,000 necessary for the construction of the iline had been paid into the Public Works Fund the previous: day, and as "the men were available the line would be pushed to completion without delay. The railway, whAoh is being con-et-nuoted under the some principle as the Paeroa-Waihi Ene, ■will run for a distance of 12 miles up the. Waikaka Valley, and wil junction with the main line three miles above Gore.