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RETURN No 25 HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION Return of the Number of Vessels discharged and loaded at the Ports of Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, and Bluff, for the Year ending 31st March, 1895.

RETURN No. 26 HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1895, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches.

Port. 1894-90-1893-94. Increase. Decrease. Discharged : — Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Bluff No. 1.563 294 147 290 54 257 No. 1.545 316 130 307 47 281 No. 18 No. 22 17 7 17 24 Totals 2,605 2,626 42 63 Loaded : — Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Bluff 1,605 293 155 307 2 260 1,648 3i7 154 3i7 I 43 24 10 2 282 22 Totals 2,622 2,718 3 99

Line of Railway. Main Single. I i Line. i Double, i Branches. Total Railway. Main Line. .Sidings. Total _ i Equivalent of Single Branches, j Total. I Track. 1 j f i Chkistchtjech Division : — Main Line Bangiora Sheffield and Eyreton Junction-Bennett's Southbridge and Little Biver Branches Springfield and Whiteeliffs Branches Ralsaia and Ashburton Forks Branch Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 2" 57 M. ch. 6 28 M. ch. 53 56 48 7 42 27 M. ch. 218 5 M. ch. 64 74 M. ch. St. ch. M. ch. 64 74 282 79 I 4 52 \ /58 28 S 26 53 33 4 65 I 47 12 ■i V2T AA i ■242 65 -23 44 22 20 1 f23 44 i 2 65 25 5 27 35 36 13 12 67 1 53 29 8 2 45 38 58 \ 1 58 / '14 45 Totals, Christehurch Division 211 57 6 28 242 65 460 70 64 74 23 44 88 38 549 28 23 44 88 38 Dunedin Division : — Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru Breakwater Branch Ngapara & Livingstone Branches Shag Point Branch Waihemo Branch Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch... Otago Central Baiiway Otitram Branch Lawrence Branch Catlin's Biver Branch Tapanui Branch 175 20 1 37 41 0 63 27 4 2 10 8 65 1 26 2 49 56 2 9 o 22 1 14 48 20 4 175 20 47 37 2 57 o 25 2 2 o 14 o 57 3 4i o 52 2 51 0 65 1 52 1 3 2 7 47 37 222 57 /'40 18 1 8 29 6 2 24 9 42 j 4 67 \ 3 21 58 53 9 65 23 53 15 5i \22 I I ■201 73 ■18 26 Totals, Dunedin Division 175 20 201 73 377 13 47 37 18 26 65 63 442 76 Inveboaeq-ill Division : — Main Line Waimea Plains Branch Wyndham Branch Seaward Bush Branch Kingston Branch Makarewa-Orepuki Branch Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNightcaps Branches Lumsden-Mararoa Branch 72 61 36 41 9 35 18 7 87 o 35 52 24 5i 72 61 I i V221 67 17 78 2 6 0 45 1 7 6 13 4 o 2 34 17 78 V17 28 90 59 /38 47 10 o 19 14 J 93 13 1 39 52 27 5 Vji 44 10 41 1 3 Totals, Invercargill Division 72 61 i 459 58 221 67 294 48 17 78 7 28 35 26 3 2 9 74 Grand Totals —Whole Line 6 28 666 45 19 18 189 47 1322 18 1,132 51 130 29 Riversdale-Svitzers Line* Forest Hill Tramway* 2 o 10 o * Taken over, but not yet open for traffic,