PENINSULA RAILWAY.

Evening Star, Issue 3615, 23 September 1874, Page 2

PENINSULA RAILWAY.

To the Editor. Sir, —As a company is about to be established for the construction of a railway to the Heads, please permit mo to suggest that this proposed line should bo extended to the < avei sham station or thereabouts. My chief reason for suggesting this is because I have got id reason to believe a large traffic would accrue to the line in the conveyance of Green Island or Clutha coal to the large vessels that would lie at their pier inside the Heads, and which would meet with ready sale in the many markets to which vessels now go only in ballast. I have also reason to believe that this coal could, at a small expense, be converted into a description of “patent fuel,” f»r which an unlimite I market exists. I believe there is a greater draft of water inside the Heads than at Port Chalmers, and I understand that, some years ago, when the largest class of vessels came here from Melbourne, they laid there. We have mw every reason to believe that similar vessels will soon visit us again, and a railway to the Heads, with a deej;-.vatci'pier and the prospect of getting a cargo of coal, would undoubtedly be a great inducement to such vessels;—-I am, &c., _ COLONI T. Dunedin, September 22.