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RETURN No. 26. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Return of the Number of Vessels discharged and loaded at the Ports of Lyttelton, Timaru, Oamaru, Port Chalmers, Dunedin, and Bluff, for the Year ending 31st March, 1887.

RETURN No. 27. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1887, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches.

Port. I88J-86. 1886-87. Increase. Decrease. • ISCHARGED : — Lyttelton Timaru Oamtiru Port Chalmers X)urjeclin Bluff No. No. 35i 332 329 69 270 No. No. 1,726 356 363 34i 69 25.1 207 5 3? 12 l9 Totals 3,106 2,870 '9 2S5 lOADED : — Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Blufe 1,410 357 363 316 23 251 1,388 347 312 327 4. 262 22 10 Si II 19 II Totals 102 2,720 2,640 22

Main Line. Sidings. Total Equivalent Line of Railway. Branches. Total Single. Double. Railway. Main Line. Branches. Total. of Single Track. Jheistchubch Division :— Main Line ... Rangiora to Sheffield, and Eyreton Junction to Bennett's Southbridge and Little Kiver Branches Springfield and Whitecliffs Branches Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch Rakaia and Ashburton-Forks Branch Waimate Gorge Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. 6 28 M. ch. 53 56 48 7 42 26 M. eh. 218 s M. oh. 61 39 M. oh. 4 9 5 " S 1 M. ch. 61 39 M. ch. 279 44 57 65 53 18 47 27 23 27 3 6 13 4 46 22 20 1 20 2 43 1 4 2 38 24 47 38 56 5 50 24 58 8 21 238 56 o 54 22 20 8 75 Totals, Christehurch Division 211 57 6 28 238 56 456 61 61 39 22 20 83 59 540 40 Junedin Division : — Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branch ... Ngapara Branch Shag Point Brandl Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch... Outram Branch Lawrence Branch Tapanui Branch Waillemo Branch Catlin's Biver Branch Duntroon-Hakateramea Branch 190 65 22 3 0 63 14 77 2 10 1 27 2 49 9 ° 22 o 1 go 65 44 35 1 35 0 23 1 30 o 10 3 40 o 52 o 68 2 2 44 35 235 20 23 38 1 6 16. 27 2 20 4 67 3 21 9 68 24 2 22 6 20 4 8 55 7 76 15 33 2 2 ° 54 0 50 1 5 9 29 8 46 16 43 127 2 14 5i Totals, Dunedin Division ... 190 65 127 2 317 67 44 35 H 5i 59 6 376 73 Invkecakguli Division : — Main Line ... Waimea Plains B ranch Wyndham Branch Seaward Bush Branch Kingston B ranch Makarewa-Orepuki Branch Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNightcaps Branch Lumsden-Mararoa Branch 57 9 36 41 3 73 5 ss 87 o 35 .52 24 5i 57 9 14 58 1 34 ° 43 o 36 5 IS 4 3 2 34 14 58 71 67 37 75 4 3 6 6 11 92 15 39 55 27 5 :o 41 203 73 1 o 15 5 11 41 Totals, Invercargill Division 57 9 203 73 261 2 14 58 15 S 29 63 290 65 Grand Totals—Whole Line 6 28 5^9 51 51 76 172 48 1208 18 459 5i 1035 50 120 52