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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 149, 25 June 1908, Page 8

The local agents of the - steamer Blenheim advise that the vessel will leave Blenheim at 2 p.m. to-morrow afternoon <for Wellington, where' she should arrive at about 10 £.m. Passengers who intend availing themselves of this opportunity of witnessing the football match in Wellington are requested to book their passages at once, as only a limited number can be carried. The Blenheim will sail, on the return trip at noon on Sunday. For Children's Hacking Cough at night Woods' Great Pepparmint Cure. U-fid and 2s 6d. ' • In anticipation of the opening of the North Island Main Trunk : line the Railway Department has for some time p.-ist been largely augmenting the staff on the Wellington-Napier-New Plymouth and on the Auckland sections, and has now a considerable number of men in training to take W positions that will be created by the opening of the Main Trunk railway. It is, moreover (says The Post), the usual practice at the end of every financial year for the railway staff in the ordinary course to be reclassified, and 'in doing that to transfer members of the staff from various positions in one island to suitable positions in the other island. •We are informed that the business and trade of the ( North Island is expanding far more rapidly than the business in the South Island, and therefore in the near future the importance of various stations connected with the North Island railway system will be increased, and senior members of the ■railway service will of necessity he required to be placed in those positions, and this may necessitate *the transfer of a few of the 'more senior men from the South Island to the Northtsland, otherwise there will be no material difference this year ,in the matter of transfers from irjiat has been followed- for some years past. Jessie Wilkinson, thirty-three, was 1 killed in Pitt Street, Sydney, on Sati urday, June 6th, it is alleged, as the i result of a blow from Henry Bray, i thirty-eight. Wilkinson, who was a married .woman, living apart from her husband, was out with a friend, Edie Ward. They met and stopped to converse with Bray, who knew Wilkinson. Bray made a display of sovereigns, saying he had been lucky at,the races, but shortly afterwards he accused Wilkinson of stealing one' from him.. She denied it, and it is alleged he then struck her, and she fell heavily. .When the police arrived it was seen that .she was dead. Bray ■was then arrested, and charged with ,caiismp*^Wilkiitßon's death. He was released on bail of £500.