The section referred to extends from the south end of the goods sheds where the new line diverges, to a point opposite the Caversham Gasworks.
Although two sets of rails have been laid down over this length, only one is at present being used for ordinary traffic - that on the left-hand side looking southward, or what will be the permanent "down" line.
On Sunday Mr Macandrew, district engineer, made test of the overhead bridges at the Anderson's Bay road, Kensington, Neville street, and Glen road crossings with two heavy engines, thus placing on the structures a distributed load of 90 tons.
The bridges stood the test quite satisfactorily, and yesterday's running on the new line was carried out with entire smoothness, there being no interruptions and no hitches of any kind.
• Bluff freezer craft operations in the West Coast Sounds are (says our correspondent) succeeding remarkably well.
The Gisborne, out from the Bluff not more than one month, returned on the evening of Sunday bringing 200 cases of cod, besides crayfish, groper, etc.
She was not expected much before the end of the month.
A Puysegur wire received by her owners on Saturday reports that the Kekeno, also operating in the sounds, had netted a similar quantity.
She had gone as far north as Milford, meeting with success all through.
Indeed, it would appear as if the blue cod, having deserted the island banks, had betaken themselves to the sounds.
• A Press Association telegram from Whangarei states that Mr Fraser, county engineer, found at Sandy Bay, on the East Coast, a quantity of moa bones and human skeletons of a high type of man, not a Maori.
In the lower strata he found a skull of a full-grown man of lower type.
The skull is much lower in the anthropological scale than the famous Neanderthal skull, the crown of the skull being almost level with the eyes, and the bone very thick.
Mr Fraser intends to send the specimen to Australian scientists for examination.
The low type of skull had apparently been buried for thousands of years. - ODT, 7.12.1909.
