GISBORNE-TE KARAKA RAILWAY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1402, 13 March 1905, Page 2

GISBORNE-TE KARAKA RAILWAY.

replies prom governor and MINISTERS.

SUGGESTED POSTPONEMENT OP OPENING CEREMONY.

Last evening Mr W. Gaudin received received the following telegram from his Excolloncy the Governor in regard' to the opening ceremony of the Gisborne-Te Karaka line “ Your letter of the 3rd instant received, I have been making every effort to fit in the opening ceremony of the Gisborne-Te Karaka railway with my engagements, but regret extremely to find this impossible. I J sincerely hope that the now line may bring, prosperity to your district, which I much look forward to visiting in the near I future.—Pmjnkbt, Governor.” I Mr Carroll also telegraphed last even- I , h>g v I “ Re Karaka railway opening, Sir Joseph I Ward intimated he would be present, and I Hall-Jones is also likely to be there, but I the 31st March is an awkward day, being I the end of the financial year. If the open- I ing was put off for three or four days later j it would suit much better. However, the I matter rests with yourselves.—J, Car- I non,." i

| The following letter has also been I received by. Mr Gaudin from the Hon. W. I Hall-Jones : I . “Roar sir,—l have to thank you for the I kind invitation of the East Coast Railway I League to he present at the opening ceremony of the Giaborne-Karaka railway, to be held at the end of March. In reply thereto, I regrofc .to have .to inform you that, as I have engagements in the South j up to near that date, I shall be unable to reach Gisborne, in time for the opening. I I trust, however, chat you will have a I thoroughly successful function.—Yours I truly, War. Halu- Jones.” [