LATE TELEGRAMS.
[By Wire.—AUCKLAND, Tuesday Morning, 8.33 a.m.] Trade this week in retail lines is very brisk, wholesale dull. The Grey statue will be unveiled tomorrow by tho Governor. Dr. Collins has been committed for trial. ♦ The Premier, accompanied by several prominent Christchurch citizens, yesterday visited the Midland Railway works, inspecting the site of the Staircase Gully Viaduct, and going on to Broken River. Subsequently replying to the toast of his health, Mr. Seddon said no one could realise the great advantage to be obtained by a railway on both sides of Canterbury. It would send products to the West Coast, which would be able to develop its enormous source of wealth in timber, coal and gold, and open up rich pastoral areas in South Westland. Tho people of Westland and Canterbury should not be satisfied without at least £150,000 a year, and should insist on the railway’s completion at least to Cass. He thought the line should reach that point in little more than eighteen months-
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 19, 20 December 1904, Page 2
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167LATE TELEGRAMS. Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 19, 20 December 1904, Page 2
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