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JSTbw Plymouth, June 10. Rewi is expected at Pukearuhe (White Cliffs) to-day, and will be at Waitara before the 21st July. A few followers will come with him at first, the main body coming down afterwards.

Wanganui, June 10. The Wanganui Harbour Board to : day accepted the tenders of Henderson and Fergus of Dunedin for the three contracts of the river improvement and Harbour Works. Amount, £25,197..

Wellington, June 10. The ' Gazette ' issued this morning notifies that Parliament is further prorogued from the 15tb June to .the Ist July next. Mr Seymour Thome George, nephew of the Premier, has received a requisition from the |. Hokitika electors inviting him to become a [.. candidate for the representation of; that dis- . trict, and has replied complying with the request, and slating that he will Vvisit the district. , ;

.HoKiTiKA, June 10. jJMr Fitzgerald, late JJ..M, has announced , himself. as » candidate for the seat. .CuiusTCHTJRGH, June 10. * One of the new Yankee railway locomotives has be,en altered for the purpose of utilising the Canterburycoal, which the driver says answers better thaff Newcastle. The body of the late George H. Hulmes, son of Mr G. Holmes, contractor for the first railway, in Canterbury, arrived; by the San Francisco mail for interment in the family vault at Biccarton. Mr Holmes died in New York. The* Press ' this morning follows the example of the • New Zealand Times ' in publishing the Government; advertisements gratuitously, with a similar explanation of its reasons for doing so. The * Press ' makes the statement that since April last all Govern? ment advertisements i have- been confined to the 'Lyttelton Times.'

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Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1017, 11 June 1878, Page 5

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interprovincial. Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1017, 11 June 1878, Page 5

interprovincial. Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1017, 11 June 1878, Page 5