RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Evening Star, Issue 3959, 2 November 1875, Page 2

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Bem eft’s contract on ti c Wintoo-Kingston line, os far as the Elbow, wall bo pushed on so as to meet the wool trade. The narrow gauge line from Winton to Invercargill will be pie ceeded with almost immcdiaielv, and it will be ■.[■ on iOl putt of the wool season if locomotives come to hand. All depends now upon the l‘rovincial authoriiies. bEnnetts contract to vthoi wf!l take eighteen months to execute. If this contractor is unable to cany it through six months m ire delay may be anticipated. 1 he line from Athol to Kingston can be made, tf iwccssary, in nine months, but tie earth works may be at once made —the laying of iads must await the cmuple'ion of the line to ■ttbol It in u l e saf« ly a-* anted that two \ ears will elapse before the one c..u bo opened to Kingston for through tradio, un'e-s a more vigorous course of act on in building ■ 'lidees is adopted between bow thor (Elbow) and the orossin of the Mataura at Athol. L r nfoi sotii delays will also take p ace between i okomainro and Tuapeka, and also' between the junction of tie I'lutha and Matauni lines. I he; e w. Iks will take at I ast eighteen mouths •.•C.onpb ! > 1y - a,*- ♦ v.-o \ n.r Ipiv» b ie.-. v, n. „oi,.thw. foiv, l.a SO l.iiUdua at lirwt imagined.—‘Wakatip Mail,’