INTERPROVINCIAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume v, Issue 419, 27 July 1880, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[ Speci '* übh M'&iixf]. '".',' Wkllinqwu; July 26. -; -The report of the Railway Commieeioftwas laid on the table of the House to,-d*y,. The following i» ft copy p£(lie.,port jon re-* lating to the Akaroa railway r—iLitrcolnto Lake Forsyth.-^The; woTka,ap"on,thi«4i«c-.' tion are in progress, And shaulcUbe com- * pleted to the end of {he seventeen miles now under contract. ""A; rtulway , 'to that point will bring-Akaroa to within an «a»y distance of Chris£church t and will probably, \take the greater part of ■ the ■ which now gone by,sea. . , Luke foreyth tQ*ftttrftß'iyer.- r7 Thiafec-* tk>n would be more expenaivo than.that from Lincoln to Lake Forsyth, and would.<■ not, we coneider,'add materially ( to the traffic. Wβ therefore do" not think it F a<p visable to ccntinue. the line .beyond the, lust-iiamed point. , . . , Litile Ripr to Akaroa.—The works upon this be generally expensivo, H and involve the construction of a long tunfiel. The population of the district Jβ comparatively email, and we do not ee'e a sufficient prospect o£ n remunerative re- ? turn of tlio outlay to induce us : to recommend that it bliould bo incurred. -Th,© line' was further recommended tp be proceeded with, when further funds are available, from Lake Fornyth to Little Bive'r.