ROUTE PROM VICTORIA TO THE LAKE GOLDFIELDS.
The shortest route is ria, InvercarrjiU, which it at least one day nearer Victoria than Dunedin. The steamers Gothenburg, A.ldinga, and .<4.1---havibra call regularly at tTie JBlujf, io?ilch is distant from town 20 miles. From Invercargill the North Road is followed, beginning at Deestreet. About four and a half miles from town the road turns to the left, and from thence to the foot of the Lake the main line of road should he kept, liy this route the distance is only 92 miles from Invercargill, the road perfectly level, and there are accommodation house, all the way. From Dunedin viA Kingston (foot of the LaJceJ", the distance is 22D' miles s viA. the Dnustan, 150 miles. This latter road is mountainous to a degree. ■ ...
DISTANCE TABLE. Distance from Miles. Sydney to Auckland 1315 „ Manukau......... 1200 „ Nelson.. 1180 „ Bluff Harbor 1100 " Melbourne to Auckland. . ; 1650 „ Manukau 1440 „ Nelson ;.. 1410 Bluff 1203 „ Dunedin 1333 Auckland to Napier 350 „ Port Chalmers (direct) 808 „ Canterbury 670 Napier to Wellington' 200 Manukau to Kaglan 70 „ Taranaki 140 Taranaki to Nelson 142 " Wanganui 100 Nelson to Picton (by French Pass) 87 Wanganui to Welliton...ng 98
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 27 August 1864, Page 2
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197ROUTE PROM VICTORIA TO THE LAKE GOLDFIELDS. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 27 August 1864, Page 2
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