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Cromwell Argus, Volume VI, Issue 308, 6 October 1875, Page 6

The tender of Mr William Grant, of Cromwell, has been accepted for approaches to the Clyde Bridge, the amount being £1,624" 13s 4d

The following paragraph from a Dunedin paper does not convey a high opinion of the efficiency of the police in the metropolis. In few up-country towns would roughs have time or opportunity afforded them to strip to their singlets and perform long enough to present a “frightful appearance” in a public fare A pugilistic encounter came off near the quarry in Maclaggan street yesterday afternoon, which created a great stir in the neighborhood, and resulted in five men finding themselves shortly aftei wards in the lock-up. The two combatants stood up in regular fighting style, one of them stripped to his singlet, and presenting a frightful appearance, through the disfigurement of his face. There were three or four hundred onlookers, who would hare acted in a more becoming manner had they put a stop to the fight. A 'body of police suddenly appeared on the scene, and arrested the pugilists ‘ and three abettors,