OPENING OF THE RAILWAY FOXTON TO WANAGANUI.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 3131, 20 May 1878, Page 2

OPENING OF THE RAILWAY FOXTON TO WANAGANUI.

To-day the firat tfairiiefr Foxton for Wanganui. The intending passengers had to Ret SR^W^^^, 0 * .^he- nfe¥q«4he starting 1 .time was-^. o'clock, and* 'Mrhapsthi/tf»8«on, ' 'combined with tne-fay6i#l*CJtgi FoSbttiaas iclfd' not thffik- ; :thafc ; 'Qxm ipp^nSjigioftlibe line through ww worth celebraing byta general " holiday, accounted 'for' thrMaifefcr of th« . nuniberlwio'atyailedtMmselves of the oppor■tun^yjfqr .a^rip. At Palmerston, however, -it was quite different, Mr Snelson, Mayot', , ' having proclaimed a holiday, 20 or 3d*9xcai«* sio»ißts got in there. At Feilding-Hfere wa§ not much excitement, bat a few were tafeen up from there. On arrival afc Haicombe some demonstration was made, and the children attending the schqol . were drawn jjnjn line on a tank- overlooking } thrff^mi^Wve A hearty cheer ■ iov ■ the ; fiist (fcfani. IsUb hero . >th^i *b L e np,dnd do,w,a /trains! qrqs^pdj|Jid the engines were changed. ,%3BSK]PJ^i ve l^l!^^fe^. fe w' mittotesel .;. tue appointed limes. On IHe way from Hal* combe a considerable number of paSSnger* were :ffi&to otfl>oara,^iaatha^aaitra*tii^d in WangaEtai' Alamfc^ti 'Vmp, JtolameTNsrowded in every earriage^JQjp moch credit cannot lie ■ B^?i^^f r { Bothexamcfindahe^taffi for the ' admirable, 1 waV 1 &ir't&e'~6rringtaq&i tR^» datrfea ont f "e*Befe6any < >#hWifcqß cofaMdeMd > how ptmcttral the train.iwais ti»s&Bteip*