TELEGRAPHIC EXTENSION TO RIVERTON.
Our Riverton friends will read with satisfaction the announcement in our advertising columns, that steps for the construction of a line of telegraph from Invercargill to . Riverton, are about to be taken. T?he advertisement is issued by the Telegraph Commissioner, and invites tenders for the supply and delivery of four hundred telegraph poles, more or less. Ifc is to be regretted that more precise information as to the direction ifc is proposed to run has nofc been furnished, as tenderers would have been placed in a better position to form a correct estimate of the labor required in delivery. This omission does not seem to be an oversight, judging from a paragraph in the advertisement stating that the line will be " hereafter indicated." We hardly imagine the coastline would be deemed suitable for telegraphic purposes, the high winds and drifting sands being liable to check operations. The only other available route is that via Wallacetown, and the probabilities are that that route will prove the most eligible one. Meantime, it is gratifying to find that the claims of the outlying districts are not being altogether ignored.
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Southland Times, Issue 1304, 6 September 1870, Page 2
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190TELEGRAPHIC EXTENSION TO RIVERTON. Southland Times, Issue 1304, 6 September 1870, Page 2
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