THE MIDLAND TUNNEL.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13062, 12 March 1908, Page 9

THE MIDLAND TUNNEL.

I.- ok nn: to ' the rr.r.yv") OTIIIA. March 11. | Mr Xe.lMcl.-a:,v...i_n(n;r.iiasr| Friday, at»d i"-r...*a.a., ~ ~, *- - . 6 -, i ~i -,*' to (. * r-st- ;: ;r, t; o.*i ; oi'-,"'"- *- ..-,,-, ... ;,.,,.! ,:/■'■ !-"-; (i .,| 13 I - ' . . . .... i . r J . t -";'.:. , ; r ■•.;-,..;.. - ai .,; arc r:0...--«-«■ : r!;: . ..., r . ; Arthurs »■'//.„, ~„.„;. ~, .., r ;!; .. , rrect-e'-ii "- : ' " '.- -', '• '" '." .'.'. .",.-. 1 oi t:io A-.'*"* '- 1 .. -. ~; i an .l n-ic.- *'<-;* -".;;; ;-, . r ;'' ;;;•'.; ■' tiMiiy the »•:■....• «;l I"— » , c f fontor.T,oi: C tin-.* "', . I ...; tunnels are re*p.v!.v..iy .Ult, .iiyi , 100 ft in :,: d .v. arc in reaiov * T,pre nißttens oi d'-:a;l | j lie tunnel face h- a-s ir.nch tti- Miiif ! jpnearaDcc, in i.'-to ol th- n.et t hat ; !.*i*-"C qu.tntltv r,l :::ate;ial l- i-Jin-TovJweeklv. It .vill tin,, j txcaiatins for ti- «rPi<.::«.•••.. .as -~* ; country in thar j.-ur'-o-ilar -;..-r i.s l-w-.-. I and in cor.f.*q*iei;<e t:;e hi.side ha.s v. j fr battened i;i» a c.*.nsidera:....* »,c a.iice. j Nothio'-- d.-nni-c- has t»-.-.i as ; toirhen tho 'dhcu.i „i'.-,.,:i*: Mia:! take j place, hut it will (ionntl.-,. I-e ,-on.c _, lime in April, an-! -i-j /-.':•'<•. I"---.V : v i ■icpcnii on the Pram- Minivers m.in.y , to attend. The lu-al :, .d.os have tne ; 1 matter ir. hand, ar.d th" t miction j>r;i- 1 mhAS to he unrr.hy ol tne eecaeion lor j which it is '->*ir..« j The co-c-jxTative vvorKers are l>M?y j with their pr-rtior. of the railway works ■ in the fl *ri:e, and as the cuttin-i approach! ti? iho ltollesion bridge has i , ; 'ht a litf'of rails through i-s ; i-ntire the eont,ract.crs' tii.iteruil \ is t'rant>p . : t'-! -.'-i.h far urealer expedi- j tion than forii-.-rly. I Tlie gr-eii \\ii:eh protects thi.s.i-utting ■ from the fury of the Kollcston it» bei-rt-g j atteniictl to" and materially streTiiThened by the addition of h:i.*_ro lio'.ilders and tho belling together <>f thotio al- I reaflv in j-.0-.it ion. i : The Gcat Creek emb.-inkmrnt rises J , slowly day by day. a-, it is a wori; that t cannot he ru-shed. and the tlrwxl waters 1 - /if ihe Otira have in the. same tin;., to J he held i". cheek. - j Tlie piles for the hor.se bridge over I the QHra River are beinsr driven, but | take a lot of pnnchin.fr. the h-ea-vy nn- I tare of the formation thron-jh which they most pass mailing it ;i tcdio-ns eperatitvn. Nevertheless;, Mr Wilson ar.d his men keen po-jr-tring away, and the many -difficulties aro beiii£ sur- | ' mounted. I