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Enclosure 3 in 3 of No. 9. Schedule C. Thames Vallcy-Rotorua Railway. Description and class of permanent-way material belonging to the Thames Valley-Rotorua Railway Company (Limited), with prices f.o.b. in London : Steel rails (531b. per lineal yard), with fish-plates, new-pattern bed-plates and fangs, same as used on Now Zealand Government Railways ; steel rails (531b.), £5 10s. 6d. per ton; fish-plates, £7 2s. 6d. per ton ; fish-bolts, £24 per ton ; bed-plates, £11 10s. per ton ; fang-bolts, £14 per ton ; spikes, £12 10s. per ton.—Stewabt and Huntee, Civil Engineers. 28th November, 1884.

Enclosure 4 in 3 of No. 9. Schedule D. Thames Valley-Rotorua Railway. — First Section. List of rolling-stock belonging to the Thames Valley-Rotorua Railway Company (Limited), with prices f.o.b. in London : 4 locomotives, Class F, six-wheel, coupled, tank, engines, cylinders, 10J by 18, £1,325 each ; duplicate parts of engines, £700; 2 carriages (first-class), double four-wheel bogie, £674 each; 4 carriages (second-class), double four-wheel bogie, £488 12s. each ; 4 carriages (composite), double four-wheel bogie, £562 each ; 4 break-vans (ironwork only) sets £61 ss. each; 4 horse-boxes, &c, £55 ss. each; 4 timber trucks, £31 15s. each; 10 cattle trucks, £41 Is. Gd. each ; 10 sheep trucks, £41 Bs. 6d. each ; 25 low-side wagons, £37 10s. each ; 20 high-side wagons, £34 each.— Stewart and Hunteb, Civil Engineers. 28th November, 1884. [N.B.—The foregoing is same class and pattern as used on the Now Zealand Government Railways.]

Enclosure 5 in 3 of No. 9. Schedule E. Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway. List of miscellaneous items belonging to the Thames Valley and Rotorua Railway Company (Limited), with prices f o b. in London : 6 Weston's patent pully blocks (2 tons), £14 each ; 8 traverse jack-screws, £33 each ; 2 traverse jack-hydraulics (15 ton), £27 each; carriage lamps, &c, £100.—Stewabt and Hunter, Civil Engineers. 28th November, 1884.

Enclosure 6 in 3 of No. 9. Schedule F. Thames Valley-Rotorua Railway. — First Section. Estimate of works, &c, already undertaken, and expenses incurred on first section of line : Grading, bridges, and fencin": Oxford contract, with extras, £15,200 ; Lichfield contract, with extras, £12,200. Permanent-way material landed in Auckland, £35,708 ; cartage and railway freight, to date, £3,300. Sleeper contract, £15,375 ; rolling-stock landed in Auckland, £18,500 ; sundry accounts and contingencies, £1,500 ; Engineers' commission on foregoing, 5 per cent., £5,090. Preliminary expenses floating company, £923 65.; preliminary survey of line, £1,607 lCs. 4d. ; expenses constituting railway districts, £196 10s. sd. ; J. C. Gould for land taken for railway, £200 ; Messrs. Burnett Bros., £255; management and general expenses, £1,559 13s. 6d. Total, £111,615 6s.[3d.—Stewabt and Hunter, Civil Engineers. 28th November, 1884.

Enclosure 7 in 3 of No. 9. Schedule G. Thames Valley-Rotorua Railway. Estimate of works required to complete first section of line for traffic: Formation, bridges, culverts, and fencing, £4 000 • platclaying contract, £10,023 ; land carriage of material to Morrinsville, £3,500 ; indent for covered goods wagons (not yet received), £1,000 ; erection of rolling-stock (includes timber, &c), £4,100 ; station buildings and water supply, £8,000; station equipment, £1,000; Engineer's commission on foregoing (5 per cent.), £1,880; advertising, £100; general expenses and management, £600; expenses of land survey, £G5O: total, £40,853.—Stewabt and Hunteb, Civil Engineers. 28th November, 1884.

Enclosure 8 in 3 of No. 9. Thames Valley-Rotorua Railway. — First Section. Absteiot of total cost of first section of line : Works already undertaken and expenses incurred, per Schedule F, £111615 6s. 3d.; land purchase estimate, per Schedule A, £1,191; directors' honorarium, | three years, £3,900; interest on shareholders' capital to the 31st December, 1884, at 7 per cent., £7,000 ; interest on present liabilities for advances and overdue accounts, £1,741 ; works required to complete first section of line for traffic, per Schedule G, £40 853 ; interest and expenses for twelve months future and pro rata for shorter tune : directors honorarium, £l,doo ; shareholders' interest, £4,200 ; creditors', and further advances required; interest, £9,082 ; expenses, say, £GOO : total, £181,482 Gs. 3d. [Note.—ln addition to the above, a sum £5,250 has been already expended on the survey of the second section of this line.]

4. The Hon. the Minister for Public Works to the Chairman, Thames Valley and Eotorua Eailway Company. Ec Thames Valley and Botorua Baihvay. g IE Wellington, 3rd January, 1885. In pursuance of my letter to you dated the 14th November last, and of your reply dated the 29th November, I have the honour to inform you that, subject to the approval of Parliament, the Government is willing to purchase from your company its interest on that portion of the Thames Valley and Eotorua Eailway the construction of which has been undertaken under the District Eailways Act—namely, the portion from Morrinsville to Lichfield, on the following 1' The amount to be paid by the Government to be £111,160 Cs. 3d. for the works constructed or in progress, and also for the materials, &c, procured or to be procured, as set forth in Schedule F accompanying your letter of the 29th November before referred to, being the total amount shown on the said schedule, exclusive of the sum of £455 for land-purchase, which is also included in Schedule A. And the Government also to pay to the company the sum of £1,191 for all the land required for the railway, including the 526f acres of land shown to be so required m Schedule A accompanying the said letter; it being, however, understood and agreed that the company shall remain liable for the discharge of all liabilities in connection with the said works, material, and lands,