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without the assistance of any intermediate

vertical shaft frone

· both sides of the

mountain, with the intention of meeting. zonewhere wear the riiddle. The

were

boring

io being conducted by percussive machinery) driven by compressed air and the replosive steed is colusively dyreauuite. Operations score begun. on the Jylain and in April and on the Victoria end in July of tast year; (1883) practically, therefore, the tunnelling has been in hand now your, and a lougth of min

about

fifton hundred and thirty feet has been Completed, the whole.

11.

ar a

little over a

a fifth of

The extraordinarily hard and

of the

•able nature of the rook

unfavarral

traversed 110 less than the

шашн

minor

minop

- difficulties that uuest necessarily beset 20 heavy aw undertaking

in a

as this

country so for recoved from

the

many facilities and advantages enjoyed by

similar works wearer home, have tended to retard progress during the first year of the initiation of this work ; but it is____ confidently anticipated that the substitution of the heavier driving machinery – 8891 shortly expected from England will

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greatly accelerate speed and enable the wines in the two heredings to effect a juuction by 1887,

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The masonry

daw outlet

works and bye- wash it is expected. will be finished by 1886, but although the new reservoir may be ready

for.

Adve

:wearly a year before the-

tunnel