Two short tunnels lave booen pierced and c. distence of
twenty feet bored in the third and largest. The truck
through the gorge will have to be supported by a solid
retaining wall, some forty feet high and a mile and a
half in length.
On section nine little vork is being done owing
to f diffimnlties in land purchase. A bridre 700 fut long
will have to be thrown over the Tung Ton Fivor £5 milu
04, three miles from Ving; Tikk on Ue North liver.
Hossra Towarth trakine and Cony ny, she do
tendering; for this bridge, eutirake Chat it will take ab
least a your and a half to complete.
tty informant did not proceed beyond suction nine,
but he under£lando limit the line has been ported out to
the sand of section 17, that is to say through the eng
Tu Kone gorgD.
The pressnt difficultion in the administration
of the railway are seriously interfering with the con-
atruction of the line, as the Engineer-in-hief refusos
to give out any contracts or close with my tenders
until
se June
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