DUNEDIN.
Tuesday*
Mr'Macandrew to-day received a deputation from the Harbour Board and the Chamber of Commerce, and other public bodies. sialed that the northern railway line Would be finished by the middle of August, and the South line in September. A meeting was held to-day ro the construction of a railway to Portobello, but there seems to be a diversity of opinion as to the course which the line shall take. The Minister for Lands and the Attor-ney-General, accompained by Messrs Blair, Conyrrs, Hume, and other gentle? men, proceeded to Blueskin by Bpecirl train to fix a site f r the new Lunatic I Asylum and Industrial School. . In tha.ease of Pxitchard v. the Corporation of DUnedinj the arbitrators have awarded the plaintiff £35,(0. This day. The School Commission of Otago at a meeting y-esterday decided that it would be inexp.edienti to partimth t-he fee simple of any edtfealioa reserves. ' '. _ ± '. t . Mr Mac^ndrew says the Bail way Pe^ parlment has ob( mcd locomotives from America which will do the through trip, between Cbrisfcchurch and Danedin in ten hours.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2939, 17 July 1878, Page 2
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