COROMANDEL NEWS.
(.By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) COROMANDEL, this clay. At a meeting of the Heretantiga Board of Wprks, held last evening | the following tenders were accepted; j Section No. ... Tiki-Karamaraina Hd., W. Renatu, £52 10/; Donnelly's Bridge, Alex White, £124. The I Board has also authorised the making iof roads to Shetland Claim and Gabi bagee Bay Extended Claim. I The letters, of which attached are. j copies, were forwarded to the Premier; the one to Lord Boberis to be sent on. Mr Seddon has suitably re- ! plied thanking- Mr Johnson for one, ' and promising- to forward the other: At a meeting of Irishmen, held in j St. George's Hall this evening, the V following resolution was unanimously I carried, viz.: "That this meeting desires to record our appreciation of the prompt manner in which the New Zealand Government raised men ior service in the Transvaal at a most critical period of the Empire's his. Tory. —(Signed) Ben. B. Johnson, Hon Sec." " . "Coromandel, April 2, 1900. To Lord Roberts, Field Marshal ajid Cpmmander-m-Chief, Transvaal: Sir, —I have the honour to forward you a . copy of a' resolution which was passed at a meeting 'of■ Irishmen -held in St. George's _i.all this evening, viz.: , 'The Irishmen of Coromandel wish to offer our heartiest congratulations to Lord Roberts and the Irish troops under his command in the Transvaal on their success, their heroic ->c- i haviour, their energy and re .. British pluck displayed by them in the pve- • sent war. God bless Ireland and all her children.'-^(Signed) -uen'B. Joinson, Hon. Sec."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 103, 2 May 1900, Page 4
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