Lawrence-Roxburgh Railway.

Mt Benger Mail, 18 March 1914, Page 3

Lawrence-Roxburgh Railway.

(Beaumont Correspondent.! About five culverts and three !uidge> remain to construct) d. .ioai! fonn* ation is now almost completed whilst ballasting operation- are proceeding apace despite a continued shortuge of Iftliour offering. It is now cot a month siniv the tenders closed ior the station buildings, but st far the contract seems unlet. Without being the son of a prophet, one is fairly safe in prophesying the ojvning taking place in November or early in Docember next. Last week three lady passengers arrived by train from Big Hill antl iboa-'tinglv remarket! on the honor paid them in being the irrst lady passenger to traverse the line. The station yards have now Ivcoine possessed of a wide and deep open ditch—draining from the hill to the roa l in front of Mr \\ilson s a ditch suelj as will find victims,it no', further protected by rail or fence.