THE LAWRENCE RAILWAY.
We elsewhere slate that' an application had been made to the Public Works Office for an extension of the time of , opening the Tuapeka line to the 30th March, and remarked it was therefore unlikely that the line would be opened before the first wesk in ApriL This has elicited the following telegram from our Lawrence correspondent : —
Yoar local of to-day creates considerable surprise. People think you have been hoaxed. The line is just being completed. Onij * few chains remain' to be laid, and will be finished by Thursday. The line is substantially ballasted as far as laid — heaty engines ■with loaded trucks passing over it almost hourly. A better built railway there is not in New Zealand. It has ttood the test of the late floods without tbs slightest damage. • The repeated promises of openingthe line ia causing great dissatisfaction with the Government. Business people for weeks have withheld their Dunedin orders for goods in anticipation of the line being opened. Public convenience seems to be lost sight of by the Government. A considerable Bum dm been subscribed by the inhabitants to celebrate the opening next week. If further delay takes place, every one will be disgusted at Government bungling, and subscribers will demand their donations to be returned.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 10
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213THE LAWRENCE RAILWAY. Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 10
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