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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1798, 2 September 1902, Page 4

As showing the benefit local basinets people receive from companies whose directorates and secretaryships are located in Dunedin instructions have been issued to a claim not 100 miles from here to the effect that all stores no matter how small a quantity are to be ordered from Dnnedin through the secretary there: Somebody there must reap a fat commission. It is good job that here we have at least one claim with a local directorate and secretary, vir., The Hieing Sun.

The ‘ Wellington Post’ {/hinks it high time'returned troopers, in many instances, threw off their duds and tackled work. |t discountenances the looking to the Govern-? pjent for billets, and says the distaste to resume honest work, in some quarters, is the price the Colony has to pay for its turn at miiitaryism. A bov of 16 died, in May last, at Westminster, and as he had suffered for years from headache, the cause of which was nos known, an autopsy was performed, when there wa* discovered a piece of slate pencil three-quarters of an inch long, embedded in the brain. The doctors believe the substance had been put qp into the head through the nostrils ia early youth,