TURAKINA.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 62, 23 May 1877, Page 2

TURAKINA.

--':-r. .■ ■;■■ ;,--'s';::-^. : ,;Ma^ 4 17..Tlte opening of the Wangariui^TuraiMna line took place to-?dayv THe weatHer was beautiful,- and tHe affairl was .a' gVeat success." A trainV-pf ; nine caf- : riages and If our trucks, crowded, tHe inumbering- abotit 500, wasr taken Put from Wangariui to Tiirakina; Previous to ■ starting. tHe ' engine was cHristen§d by MissVJDurie, daugHter of tHe late Ma^or Puriey and named Guy Mannering. Owing tot tHe stoppages at all the small stations the journey out occupied one Hour and -three "quarters.

All the Turakina inhabitants turned out ;; with a great number of natives to wel- \ come the arrival gi the train. Mr William Wangantu, ad- - dressed the assemblfl^e, congrattilating the irihabiiauts ofvthe : district on the**? sjiccessful !opening 08, the" line. He re- | ferredto its commercial advantages, and ',: trusted that it Trouia further cementthe bonds of friendship between Wanga l niitand Turakina^ c He also^ hoped no Vi time . would be lost by the Government ! m continuing the line to Bungitikei, and cbmpleting the branch line into the town of Wanganui, so as to make the line payable.' ;/_ A Juncheon was_given byr • the Mayor and "the Engineer j to^the principal inhitbitahts^ * The whole ! ; .of the airangetoentstrere;tinderthecon- .'I . trol of Mr B^es, and: Mr'pfi^sj^pher; 1 ; J6hn3ryce,:ahe^iber for Wimganui, and a [ /3"ohn Ballance-, member for fiangitikeii ] •Were present^ ,',:'....,.. j