WEST COAST RAILWAY.
The directors of the "Wellington and Manawatu Eail>vay Company are advertising for tenders for the conveyance of a lai'fje quantity ot steel rails from Wellington to Foiton. The quantity m all will /be 5000 tonsi," of 531 b mils, of »vhich 339 tons are on board the Aorangi. They have been bought at a very favorable price by the Agent-General m London, and by an arrangement with the Government! have been officially inspected before shipment. They wi}l tjnisn/'the line at the Foxton end as far as Paikakariki. > The company have sent home for the: remainder of the rails and engines re-; quiivd for the full equipment of the line, and they have also sent to New York- for 'passenger oars of the' kind so much m request on our Middle Island! tiffin Trunk Line. Twenty passenger! cars and twenty sheep and cattle trucks; will also be shortly coming. j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 42, 17 January 1884, Page 2
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152WEST COAST RAILWAY. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 42, 17 January 1884, Page 2
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