THE TELEGRAPH.
Mn Fi.ovn arrived yesterday from Katikati, and reports that everything is proceeding satisfactorily on the line, but that the work has been slightly delayed by the bad weather and heavy floods which have lately taken place. On the ranges where the bush cutting is going on it has been raining almost continuously, and this has of course made progress rather slow. Twenty-one miles of the line from this end are now completed, bringing it up to within one mile of the Ilikutaia bush,and in the course of a week a temporary office will be opened, so that Mr Floyd will be able to keep up communication with head quarters, which, of course, will save much travelling backwards and forwards. The line has been completed for about (5 miles from the Kntikati end, and a strip of bush about a mile long is being cleared near to Waihi as fast as the weather will allow. Should the elements not prove too mipropitious, there is every probability of the line being completed throughout by the Ist of May next, placing Auckland in direct communication with the South.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 3
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