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[BY KLEOTIUO TELEGRAPH.] [fRH rilKB9 ArfSOOIATfON] Westport, Sopt 21. In malting a survey of a now road at Mohikinui,(in tho Bullor County, tho surveyor struck a coal soam fivo foot thick* two milos from tho township. Tho coal is bituminous and of excellent quality onsily accessible, and may bo brought to port nt a small cost. We&iington, 21. Tho barque Courier, which has boon purohasod by a compuny, has been fitted out for a trading expedition to tho northeast ooast of New Guinea, and will leavo tosmorrow,or with the first favorable wind: Patka. 21. John M'Loan, tho cook of Frasor Trcgoar's party, and Moinoki block, wus found drownod on Thursday, It was believed ho had slipped down a stoop bunk, but it wns afterwards found that tho powdor and bullets had been stolon from tho tent. At tho inquost toxday a bullet was found in iho man's head, which loaves littlo doubt hut that ho has been murdered. .
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Inangahua Times, Issue 16, 23 September 1878, Page 2
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