BURMAH RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION
TENDER LET TO AMERICANS. ! , A VAST DIFFERENCE IN PRICE. (Received May 11, 1 aim.) .LONDON, Wednesday. In the House of Commons to-day, , in reply to a question, Lord Hamilton, Sec retary of State .for . Jpdia, stated that American,,contractors., would _ . construct the Goktiek Railway viaduct, in Bunnah, within a .year, at. a cost of .£60,000._ The lowest English tender, Hi* Lordship,observed, . was. £ll6,oo{jl, thyee years being required for the construction.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3737, 11 May 1899, Page 6
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