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(per press agency.) Auckland, Friday. D© Lias, proprietor of the Theatre Royal, obtained judgment against one of a party of five publicans in the vicinity of the theatre, who promised to pay him £1 a week each while he kept the theatre open. One who signed the agreement tried to get out of it, and the others made joint cause with him, but the Court upheld the agreement.
Three men, said to have been working on the night shift in the Waikato Company's mine, ceased work to get some refreshment about six this morning, and were about to resume work in ihe mine, when the roof caved in. Joseph McMinn had his back broken by a great mass of coal, and died on thb spot ; but Montgomery and another man escaped uninjured. McMinn was a most experienced miner, and was brother of the acting Magistrate. Ho was unmarried.
Oamaru, Friday. The Hon. R. Campbell has sold his station, consisting of 33,000 acres freehold, 48,000 acres leasehold, and 40,000 sbeep, for £100,000 to Mr John Douglas, of Mount Royal.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 93, 22 July 1879, Page 3
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179TELEGRAPHIC. Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 93, 22 July 1879, Page 3
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