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vbom ova owi ooiumiDin. Dunedin this day. The mining trouble at Green Island is over, employers having agreed to the men's requests. Work is now resumed. The Winter Show, which opens on June 2nd, promises to be most successful. Entries are coming in freely. The Tuapeka. bye-election will probably take place on June 2nd. Sir J, G. Ward, in answering Cardinal Logiie's statements so far as New Zealand was concerned, says no one with a proper knowlsdge of New Zealand could utter such opinions. Th 9 British football team reached Wellington yesterday. About a thousand people welcomed them. In. the evening there was a reception at the Town Hall when 3000 people were present. The Premier made a speech, to which Manager Harnett replied. There was much cheering. Tha Dunedin match will be played on May 31.
A gang of ruffians with revolvers and riding bicycles held up several separate pedestri ias at Christchurch late on Saturday night. They robbed three, severely assaulting two, and firing at others but the fourth got away. The police subsequently arrested three men at Sumner, who will probably prove to be the thieves wanted.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2660, 19 May 1908, Page 4
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