EAST AND WKST COAST RAILWAY.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 23 December 1881, Page 2

EAST AND WKST COAST RAILWAY.

The following correspondence lias beenobligingly placed at our disposal : •'• CbHslcburcb, December 10 h, 1881, The president, Committee of the Cham* Oommercp, GJ»f!tH«irwrcH^ — "~!sTft,- I am instructed by the chairman or the promoters to refer to icy letter as acting secretary of 24th ull., and to say that though it id very desirable that an exhaustive report upon all the mailers named should be received, yet the committee of promoters do not expect the deputation to expend more time tb.n from ten to fourteen days upon the examination aDd collection of information of tbe proposed route, and will be pleased to receive as much information as the gentlemen can collect during that time. The gentlemen wbo'bave consented to act as a deputation are Messrs Beamnont and M'llraith, together with Mr Inglis, who the promoters recommend to the chamber for nomination. lam yours failbfully, (Signed) T. B. CRAIG, Acting Secretary. Witb tbe Chambers approval, tbe. deputation will sfa/'fc on Thursday, 15ib instant." " Chrisfchureh, Doe. 13, 1881. T. B. Crai?, Esq., Acting Secretory East and West Coast Railway Scheme. Dear sir, — We beg to acknowledge re« coipt of your favor of this date, with accompanying documents * * * * * The letter of the lOfch instant, we are glad to observe, narrows Ihe enquiry marked out in your first leiter to the President of the Chamber of Commerce. The time at our disposal would preclude and we can only undertake to gire a prima facie opinion on tbe general question, after having passed in a comparatively hurried manner through tho principal part oF the proposed line of railway, nnd based on such information ;is we could gather during the few days in which we shall be in the district:. We ore, deor sir, yours faithfully, John Inglis Hugh MTlsaith J. Beaumont."