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No. 11. THE HONORABLE THE COLONIAL SECBETABT TO THE SUPEBINTENDENT, SOUTHLAND. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 17th August, 1863. Sir,— With reference to your letter of the 2nd June last, on the subject of borrowing the sum of One hundred thousand Pounds (£100,000) to construct a Railway, I have to request your Honor to be good enough to furnish the Estimate of the Cost and Returns of the Tramway alluded to in the last paragraph of that letter. I have, &c, Alfeed Domett. His Honor the Superintendent, Southland.

No. 12. THE SUPEBINTENDENT, SOUTHLAND, TO THE HONOBABLE THE COLONIAL SECEETAEY. Superintendent's Office, Southland, 4th August, 1863. Sir,— I have the honor to request that you will cause the enclosed Notices to be inserted in the number next published of the New Zealand Gazette. The Plans and Drawings will be deposited in due time as notified. I have, <fcc, J. A. R. Menzies, S uperin tendent. The Honorable the Colonial Secretary.

Enclosure to No. 12. BLUFF HARBOUR AND INVERCARGILL RAILWAY AND EXTENSION. Notice is hereby given that Application will be made at the ensuing Session of the General Assembly of the Colony for leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Superintendent of the Province of Southland to take and purchase compulsorily for the purpose of the Bluff Harbour and Invercargill Railway, authorised to be constructed under and by virtue of the Bluff Harbour and Invercargill Railway Ordinance, 1863," of the Provincial Council of the said Province of Southland, certain Lands lying and being within the line of the said Railway, and the limits of deviation thereof: And also to authorise the said Superintendent to make and maintain extensions of the said Railway as follows, that is to say :— 1. An Extension leaving the present line of Railway at a distance of four chains Northwest from the intersection with the Eastern Boundary of Section 17, Block 7, Campbelltown District, and skirting the line of Beach with a Radius of forty chains, will be carried along it, parallel to and in close proximity with the line shown on the Campbelltown Plan as the exterior Boundary of Nore Street, to a point opjwsite the North-west Corner of Block No. 5, Canipbelltown, from which point it will be continued with a radius of forty chains to a point opposite the North-east corner of Block No 4, from which point it will be continued along the beach, parallel to, and in close proximity with, the line shown as the exterior Boundary of Gore Street to the termination of this extension at the line shown on the Campbelltown Plan as Palmer's Boundary. On this extension there will be one gradient only, descending at an inclination not exceeding that of 1 vertical to 150 horizontal, to the level of four feet above the level of High Water, Spring Tides. 2. An extension leaving the present line of Railway twenty chains South of the Southern Town Belt, and entering Annan Street by reverse curves of forty chains radius will be continued down the centre of that Street, and crossing Crinan, Ettrick, Tweed, and Findhorn Streets on the level, will be continued in the Reserve distinguished on the Town Plans as the Public Esplanade, to the Site of the proposed Goods Station in that Reserve, at the back of the Government Buildings in Dee Street. There will be no gradients in this extension. And Notice is hereby further given that Copies of the said Bill will be deposited in the Private Bill Office in pursuance of the Standing Orders of the General Assembly of New Zealand relative to Private Bills, within Fourteen Days from the commencement of the said Session.

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