AN ENQUIRY ANSWERED.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 222, 3 September 1878, Page 2

AN ENQUIRY ANSWERED.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mall. Sm, —In the Lyttelton Times of Saturday last, "Enquirer" asks to be informed " which of the two broad gauge railways was made first, the one from London to Bristol, or that from London to Birmighatn, and, if possible, tho dates . when opened." I would beg to inform him through your columns that the railway from London to Birmingham was opened on the 17th of September, 1838, and that from London to Bristol on the 30th of June, 1841. As " Enquirer " is evidently a man ofintellect and progress, looking not only to the past, but to the future, he will be pleased to learn that the railway to Akaroa will be opened for traffic (unless delayed for a short time by what they call the •' Upper House ") on or about the first day of December, 1879. He will further be rejoiced to hear that "The Trust," taking into their kind consideration the frailties, imperfections, and weaknesses of man's nature, and that fish, if used as an article of food, tends greatly to'strengthen that creature's brain, have resolved not to drain me out entirely, but to leave a sufficient quantity of flounders to satisfy the cravings and impudence of all the poor old dilapidated Colonels and Captains in New Zealand. Yours, &c, OLD LAKE ELLESMERE.