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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2343, 6 October 1881, Page 2

EAST AND WEST COAST RAILWAY. .A. Alass Meeting Of those Interested in the FORMATION OF THE ABOVE LINE OF RAILWAY Will be held at the ODDFELLOWS’ HALL, LICHFIELD STREET, ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 10th, IBSI, At 8 o’clock. Doors open at 7.30. His Worship the Mayor of Christchurch will preside. The Government agree to grant 30 per cent, bonus by grant of land up to £SOOO per mile, and hand over the same to the company on completion of each section of railway finished. The East and West Oast Railway, by its construction, will open np about four million acres of land, yielding gold, coal, silver, lead, copper, antimony, manganese, tin, and other minerals. Pasture land abounds, and there exists very large tracts of valuable timber country. Neither the Company’s nor the Government Engineers have met with any engineering difficulties along the entire line of railway, and in no case does the grade exceed I in 50. Shareholders of the Company will have advantages in selecting and purchasing either township or suburban sites from land received from Government over those not so interested, All Interested in the progress of the colony or of the development of the resources of the country in question are earnestly requested to attend. EDMUND WICKES, 9805 Acting Secretary.

AITKEN & ROBERTS DOMESTIC FURNISHING- AND GENERAL IR ONMONGEBS, CASHEL STREET WEST. Fresh received Every Month Prices very reasonable. TOUR attention is particularly invited to our New Stock of “EASY” Lawn Mowers, just landed, beat and cheapest yet made "Philadelphia” & “Excelsior” Lawn Mowers Lawn Sprinklers, Syringes, Garden Tools Fishing Tackle, also a specially selected assortment Trout Flies and Rods, to arrive in October Sheep Shears, Turkey Stone, Raddle, Oils Lamp Black, Sewing Twine, Stencil Ink Harvest Tools, w ly Traps, Filters Stove Aprons, Washstand Screens Sponge Baskets. Sponges all sorts Electro-plated Wars, best quality, excellent va'ue Table, Dessert, and Pocket Cutlery Toddy Kettles E.P. Fish Eaters and Carvers, Beef Sllcors Rocking Cinder Sifters Housemaids’ Boxes Table, Hall, and Buggy Lamps Laundry Stoves Ranges, Register Grates, Fenders, &o. Kitchen and Culinary Utensils, all kinds Lemon Squeezers, Fish Kettles Brawn Fressers Fret Saws and Designs, Theodolites, Planimetera Surveyors’Cots, Band Chains and requisites Cash Boxes, Japanned L'eed Boxes, Dispatch Be xes Travelling Trunks, Bonnet Boxes Wire Netting, Bird Cages, Parrot Cages Marble and Slate Mantlepieces, Minton’s Hearth Tiles Fireproof Safas, Copying Presses Horse Nails Lustres, Vases, Sandwich Boxes Beer Engines Brushware, Grocers’ Canisters, Beer Pulls Pumps, Trucks, Paint Mills, Oils and Paints Kerosene and Machine Oils, Rope, Twine Revolvers, Saloon Rifles and Ammunition Broeoh Loaders, Blasting and Gon Powder Platform Weighing Machines, soales of all kinds Nursery Guards and Fenders, B.T. Vegetable Dishes Block Tin, Steel and Wire Dish Covers Chopping and Washing Machines, all kinds A large, well assorted stock of Carpenters’ Tools, to which special attention is Invited. AITKEN & ROBERTS, Ironmongers, Cashel Street West, 8657