Fourteen and a quarter miles were run in thirty-one minutes, the train stopping at Rolleston station, and the passengers having alighted, proceeded to examine a well which had been sunk near the station. The shaft is four feet square, wood-lined throughout, and about fifty feet deep ; but it is filled princi pally with air, there being only a few feet of tlw element for which it is designed at the bottom. After taking a cursory survey of the station, which of course is fan from com plete, the company returned to the platform when somebody saw water in the extreme distance which was said to be LakeEllesmere, but a travelled gentleman pronounced it a mirage, and this being an illusion a general move was made to a capital luncheon, which wasareality, being provided by the contractors and laid out in the ticket-office and waiting room of the new station. The guests did ample justice to the delicacies, accompanied by a plentiful supply of Mozelle, in which libations were offered in honour of the event.
