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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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No. 28.

CROWN AGENTS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Downing Street, London, May 26, 1887. WITH reference to your letter of the 10th January last, on the subject of the employment of Mr. Waring, C.E., to complete the plans and specifications of the Haputale Extension Railway in Ceylon, I have the honour to forward, for the informa- tion of Secretary Sir Henry Holland, a copy of a letter from the Consulting Engineer, reporting the completion of this part of the work. Mr. Waring's employment terminated on the 13th instant.

The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

GENTLEMEN,

I have, &c. (Signed)

M. F. OMMANNEY.

Enclosure in No. 28.

Sir CHARLES HUTTON GREGORY to Crown Agents. Ceylon Government Railways, Haputale Extension.

2, Delahay Street, May 12, 1887.

1. ON December 8th, 1886, I recommended you to avail yourselves of the presence of Mr. Waring in this country by authorising him to complete, under my direction, the drawings, specifications, bills of quantities, and schedules for the Haputale Extension Line.

2. This work has now been completed, and I have the honour to send to you herewith the drawings and documents named in the annexed list.

3. I also return to you Mr. Waring's Report on the Haputale Extension, dated 16th June 1880, and that of the 25th May 1885, and the specifications, schedules, and drawings sent in with those two Reports.

4. The work now completed has involved in its details many material alterations from the documents previously sent in, and has included the preparation of a complete and detailed specification, bills of quantities, and tables of works, and other schedules, a large proportion of which are entirely new, and when not new have been subject to revision and re-calculation; fresh tracings have been made of the longitudinal sections in 26 sheets, bound in a book; and while the drawings now sent, 59 in number, are in some cases tracings of drawings previously prepared, or sheets of lithographs altered so as to be applicable to the revised work, they include 22 entirely new drawings. All that now remains to make the documents complete will be provided when you receive from Ceylon the plan and cross sections, to the want of which I have already called your attention in my letter of 23rd March 1887.

5. The revisions in the new documents assume the widths of formation and the thickness of ballast recommended in my Report of 24th February 1887. The general specification, 67,pages foolscap, which, based upon that for the Nanu Oya Extension, has been to a large extent redrafted, and carefully revised wherever experience had shown that revision was desirable, and has been made clear in those points upon which the contractors for the Nanu Oya Extension based a large number of their claims, and all that will be necessary, if the Government should decide to let the work, will be that a form of contract should be prepared in accordance with the new specification, and that the complete work, excepting the plan and cross sections, should be printed and litho- graphed as before. In the event of the work being carried on departmentally, the contract would of course be unnecessary.

6. I have been in continual communication with Mr. Waring, and have generally directed the work he has carried out, the bulk of which has been done by himself personally, with a very limited amount of office assistance. It bears the mark of great labour and attention, and of careful study and intelligent application of his experience in the Colony, and shows him to be thoroughly master of the questions with which he has had to deal.

I have, &c. (Signed)

• No. 16.

CHARLES HUTTon Gregory,

Consulting Engineer.

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Haputale Extension.

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CEYLON GOVERNment Railways.

List of drawings and documents connected with this work.

Manuscript documents.

General specification. General conditions for wrought and cast-iron articles, steel, &c., and detailed specification for fencing and gates. Fair copy, bound in tinted paper cover,

cloth back.

SIR,

List of drawings.

Table of earthwork quantities, with abstract of same.

List of tunnels.

List of bridges, with abstract.

List of culverts, with abstract.

List of retaining walls, with abstract.

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Particulars and prices for one mile of permanent way with guard rails.

Particulars and prices for one mile of permanent way without guard rails.

Total price of work and materials for permanent way.

Particulars and prices for switches and crossings.

Particulars and price for metalling and gravelling roads and approaches. Particulars and prices for stations and station machinery.

A. Notes.

B. Details of work in stations and station machinery.

C. Abstract of stations, &c.

Particulars and prices of reserve quantities.

Particulars and price of maintenance.

Summary of total prices included in total sum. Schedule of prices.

Form of tender.

DRAWINGS. (For description of each see list of drawings.) Longitudinal section in 26 sheets, bound in a book. Drawings, in all 59 in number, as per list of drawings :— 22 original drawings.

18 tracings.

19 lithographs.

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13a, Great George Street, Westminster, S.W., 9th May 1887.

No. 29.

(Signed)

F. J. WARING,

JOHN BROWN, Esq., to COLONIAL OFFICE.

The Ouvah Coffee Company, Limited, 5, Dowgate Hill, London, E.C.,

June 9, 1887.

SIR Roper Lethbridge having postponed sine die the deputation to wait on you relative to railway extension from Nanu Oya into the district of Uva, in the island of Ceylon, and the immediate bettering of the means of transport being of vital necessity for the present and future prosperity of this district, I take the liberty of alldressing you on the subject.

Being thoroughly acquainted with the district in question, from which I have just returned, I cannot too strongly urge the immediate consideration of a narrow gauge railway to the town of Badulla, the outlay on which would not exceed the amount specified for the extension to Haputale only on the broad gauge, this latter being the extension asked for by a few mainly interested in Haputale, forgetting that any line terminating there would not secure the traffic from the Badulla district.

If the Government have firmly resolved to withhold railway extension for the present either to Haputale or Badulla, I would point out that both districts would be greatly relieved by the completion and opening up of the cart road from Badulla to Kandy, in all, 57 miles in length, 12 miles at either end of which are now a good 84