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(Per Press Association.) Wellington, This day. The gas plants for lighting the Auckland and Wellington railways will arrive next mcnth. The northern one will be sent up to the Auckland station yard and the southern either here or to Wanganui, Palmerston, or Woodvine. It will be three months before they are ready. Watson, of Taranaki, is unable to accompany the New Zealand football team to Australia. Murray replaces him. Christchubch, This day. Yesterday afternoon a woman named Mrs -Janet Hepburn, who was liberated from Sunnyside Asylum on leave, was missed from her daughter's residence on the South Belt. Later in the day she was found dead in an empty outhouse at the rear of the premises. The negotations which were commenced in March last by the shipping companies making an offer to carry meat at reduced rates provided satisfactory arrangements in other particulars could be arrived at, which have been carried on since by the Christchurch Meat Company, have been satisfactorily concluded. An agreement has been arrived at reducing the freight to fd per pound in the summer and id in the winter. The reduction takes effect almost immediately.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 351, 18 June 1897, Page 2
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