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RETURN No. 25. 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, 1890.

RETURN No. 26. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1890, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches.

* Taken over, but not. yet opened for traffic,

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Port. 1888-89. 1889-90. Increase. Decrease. JISCHAEGED : — Lyttelton Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin BlufC No. i,39! 307 286 333 46 316 No. i)S49 34i 3i5 329 50 337 No. 1S8 34 29 No. 4 4 21 Totals 2,679 2,921 246 Loaded : — Lyttelfcon Timaru Oamaru Port Chalmers Dunedin Bluff 1,360 307 283 333 8 3 T0 i,397 34i 311 335 4 334 37 34 28 O 4 24 Totals 2,601 125 4 2,722

Main Line. Sidings. Total quivalent if Single Track, Line of Railway. Single. Double. Pi ranches. Total Railway. Main Line. Branches. Ei 0 Total. jHBTSTCHURCH DIVISION : — < Main Line ... Rangiora to Sheffield, and Eyreton Junction to Bennett's Soutlibridge and Little River Branches Springfield and Whitecliffs Branches Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Branch Waimate Gorge Branch M. oh. 211 57 M. oh. 6 28 M. ch. 53 57 48 7 42 26 M. oh. 218 5 1 I-242 66 M. ch. 63 3 2 M. oh. 4 22 5 23 4 61 M. oh. 63 32 -23 4 J M. ch. 181 37 57 79 53 30 47 7 27 3 6 36 13 4 46 22 20 1 53 2 42 1 4 2 65 29 9 38 55 5 50 25 5 8 21 . o 54 8 75 Totals, Cliristchnrch Division 211 57 6 28 242 66 460 71 63 32 23 4 86 36 547 27 3unedin Division : — Main Line ... Pukeuri-Duntroon Branch Duntroon-Hakateramea Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branch ... Ngapara & Livingstone Brandies Shag Point Branch Wailiemo Branch Port Chalmers Brand] Walton Park Branch... Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrence Branch Catlin's River Branch Tapanui Branch ... 190 65 22 ""% 11 3§ 0 63 27 4 2 11 8 55 1 26 2 49 17 10 9 o 22 o 7 76 20 4 190 65 46 41 1 35 1 3 0 24 1 75 o 10 o 57 3 4i 0 5 2 1 7 0 65 1 78 o 50 2 8 46 41 V16 25 I !37 26 h 38 16 41 1 7 28 79 2 21 9 32 4 67 3 21 18 17 9 65 23 78 8 46 "22 12 ■156 19 Totals, Dunedin Division ... 190 65 156 19 347 4 46 41 16 25 62 66 409 70 Invercabghel Division : — Main Line ... Wahnea Plains Branch Wyndham Brancli Seaward Bush Branch Kingston B ranch Makarewa-Orepuki Branch Thornbury-Wairio and WairioXightcaps Branches Lumsden-Mararoa Branch 57 9 3 6 40 3 73 11 25 87 o 35 52 24 5i 57 9 I }-2og 42 IS 46 / * 63 o 43 1 o 56 1 5 32 I 4 6 2 34 I " o 15 46 |,,. I 7 2 55 23 4 36 12 1 92 32 ,■39 5S 27 5 10 41 41 Totals, Invercargill Division 57 9 209 42 266 51 IS 46 15 74 3 1 40 198 11 Grand Totals —Whole Line 459 5i 6 28 608 47 1074 46 125 39 JLJi 180 62 I25S 28 Riversdale-Switzer's Line* 2 O 2 O 2O