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Instructions were given by the Minister for Public Works that the railway from Dunedin through to Waikouaiti should be opened yesterday. This will lessen the overland journey from Dunedin to Oamam by two hours in point of time, and as much hilly road will be avoided, the boon to travellers will be important and welcome. It is satisfactory to know that, the great natural difficulties in this portion of the main ti unk line have been surmounted. The delays, of a nature unexpected when the line was first laid out, have been numerous, and much anxiety has been caused to contractors and engineers engaged on the sections to the north of Port Chalmers. It is expected that, the line connecting the two chief cities of the’Middle. Island, Dunedin and Christchurch, will be opened by the end of June or the early part of July; and, when that has: been accomplished, a trip from this to Dunedin will be a mere trifle compared with what it is now, for no doubt special arrangements will be made for running a large and fast steamer regularly between this port and Lyttelton. By that means those who dread sea-sickness will escape with but a few hours’ misery, while commercial travellers and other business men, and people on pleasure bent, will gladly hail a change that will materially lessen the time they are now compelled to spend in the journey to Dunedin or farther South. The great trunk line in the South Island will soon be complete from the Bluff to Amberley. .

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5339, 8 May 1878, Page 2

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Untitled New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5339, 8 May 1878, Page 2

Untitled New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5339, 8 May 1878, Page 2

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