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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 279, 11 July 1874, Page 3

The Waiareka Valley Kailway, the first of which was turned by His Honor the.: Superintendent,' at Qamaru, last •, week, will be of great value to a most. fertile district and an important feeder to the main line. It takes its starting point from the latter about a mile and a half loDg the Southern main line from Oamaru, and immediately cum s off towards the northwest. Passing up Cave Valley it goes through or alongside of Messrs. lee and Moore's, Menlove'a,"and JF. Beid's estaies, and terminates for the present at a point about 15 miles from Oamaru, though no doubt it will some day be carried on to the Maerewhenua Goldfield, and may even be extended through the pass to the Maniototo Plains,— ' Guardian.* The Canterbury Provincial Council has negatived, by 19 to 12, a motion for Sunday trains on country lines, the opinion being that it was only a necessity for the port line. Two neighbors had a protracted suit at law concerning a spring which they both the case, and said, "What Js the use of making such, a fuss about a little water?** " Your .Honorwill a«e the use of it," replied one of the lawyers, " when I inform you that the parties in the, suit are both. milkmen. -•:'■'