West Coast Railway.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 98, 21 March 1884, Page 3

West Coast Railway.

(fost,) | A township named Linton has been laid offwv'th'e Weliington-Mauawritu. Railway, about -four 1 mile's 'on the Wellington side of the junction with the Foxton-Wanganui line and seven miles from Palinerst-on. The next station will be three miles distant, at the Tokomaru stream, wherfi a sufficient area, Willie reserved for a township, but'wiH'not be surveyed into gecliousj asyetr Ten miles sout'li of Liutoni anbtlier township will be laid off, andj wrtl be named Shannoniuiter a director of the company. . All the land xd the vicinity of the townships, which has bcen^reserved for allocation to the com--panylbtn'the completion of a certain proportion^ 6j the W(»Lk, is being snr-; veyed into aectidns and suitable roads j laid off, with the view of rendering, it j Available for agricultural' 'settlement. so i soon a» the Railway ! 'is opened thither, j <The second coutraptfrom; town, nahiely that known as ; 3VE'Grr.ath's, which was transferred '\ U> Slessrs Trevor and Shield^, 0 ' is noW 1 'cdmplete. It adjoins j Mr J. SaundeVs 1 contract, .'.dtid conipi'ises two tunnels with the formation of the intervening portion pfifhe railway, m the third ..contract, Mr Oakes has only to finishithe lining pf one Uinnel, and his part of the work will then be done. ;Mr Sauuders 1 , tlv^fivst frpm towD, will be out of hand by, Juue,and then the rails will at once be laid from the junction with the WyellingtonMastferton liho near the l\ milo ' post,, over the bridge and along, the newly formed line. 1 The first instalments of tl».e company's. rolling-stock "should be here by June, and it isanticip«,tedithat will run between- WeJJington anxl i jfqh'hspnville early i a the coming ispving. \ :■_;,..' '. .-, ;. :; -i:.,:-;