GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
£rRESS ASSOCIATION.] : INVEEiCARGILL. 291h May. The first sod of the Orepuki-TVaiau railf/Tray was turned to-day by the Hon. J. G. Ward. The line, which will cost £49,000, miles long. The present vote is r £6000. Twenty men are to be put on the vjork immediately. Mrs. CasseHs, the local 'flotelbeeper, provided a banc/uet for 200 at i feer own cost. Besides the Acting-Premier nnd Messrs. T. Y. Duncan and Morrison, -jMJH.K.'s, the locali members of 'both Houses -/spoke at the banquet. 1 AUCKLA]S T D,v29lh May." It is stated that Mr. Seyjaaour Thorne hjis been appointed to fill the I f vacancy on the Eoayd of the New Zealand Insurance Company caused by the death of Mr. Bobert Hose. About forty passengers took advantage of !=l>be redaction of fares on the workmen's i trains from Avondale and intermediate | stations yesterday. Several more were issued to-day, the:total number being about <Cty. .BY TELEGRAPH— OWN COHKESPOSDENT.J PAHEATUA, This Day. has been received here that the ! "Balclutha Corporation loan poll for the re/building of the water-gas works, which were destroys!' by. fire some* time ago, was carried by a laege majority, the voting being two . to one in favour of the loan.
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Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 127, 30 May 1900, Page 6
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