The JBrunncrton railway has been formally opened for traffic by his Honor the Superintendent. Procession of the Fire Biigade, Volunteers, I'riendly So

miuatcd in making Glasgow iv point of pop ulation the second city iv thy Kingdom : — "Itm.iy be slated th.it at Glasgow, in the year 1775, after certain attemps had been nude to deepen the Clyde, and after a quay had been built at the Broomielaw, no vessel drawing Oft. of water could reach tho oil} except ut spring tides. Four years later a plan was adopted for deepening the river so as to accommodate vessels drawing 7ft. at neap tide. Steam dredging followed, until at length a depth at from 18ft. to 21ft. at neap tides had been obtained, and tho length of wharfage on both sides of the river required for the trado of Glasgow measures more than three miles. Dredging is siill continued, and 800,000 tons of oxcavaiiou are annually removed from tho bed of the river. Last year the expenditure was about £50,000, and tho income has aris.cu to about .8:200,000."

The Mstuawatu Times reports :—Yester day (Tuesday) afternoon the engine made a trial trip alon:j the Feilding line as far as Bunnylhorpe, to which placo the line has been completed. Tho iron horse has just undergone considerable lepaira, having had ils wheels ftirl with steel tires, and in other re&pects it has been so renovated as to be scarcely recognisable. In pursuance of a desire to tost its general working efficiency s about a score of persons accompanied it yes terday on its first essay in a truck contain ing somu tons of iron. The result was so far rfiiccc-jofii! as to prove tho engine to bo thoroughly efliuient. The lino between Pal iner-'tun and Bunny thorpc is extremely uu dulatory, but the locomotive cairied its six tons of b.illastup the inclines with apparent cisc, and worked with great steadiness throughout. The excursion occupied about two hours, but only a fraction of that time was ufod iv testing tho locomotive powers of (he eii^'mo.
