WELLINGTON. September 23.
Tho polico linvo not yet definitely learnfe whether the man implioited by Petoraen wag in gaol at the time, but boliovo him to bo imprisoned at Auckland, whence thoy awtiif a rep'y. Tilia is tho 6ecoml confoahio.i re SaMiorlay, Another prisoner nude a f-imilar Htatomout boiuo months ago, implicating himself and another man, but It wan ascertained that they too wore both i*j giol at tho time. Tho Council of the New Zoiland Xnstl. (ate of Survtyors Gnnlly approved of tha proposed generU scilo of clnrges for tho colony, which had been adopted at tho 0'>nferenc3 of surveyors held In Wollingtoo, and orderid iia circulation for adoption by ourveyon throughoab Now Zoa'and. Tho following is tho text of tho circutfi?, which tho Council of tha Wei iugton Ch unbor of C ■mnvrco ii aboub to sond to 0'ioh moniber of Parliament : "TliJ Ojuncil is of opinion tint the coin atruction of the North I^Und M-^in Trunk Railway In being unncooasarlly delayed. It o msidora the approaching linos should be j lined by tho noareet praotlciblo routo, j^d bo rondor remunoraUvo tho largo amount of capital now lying idle,"
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9301, 24 September 1898, Page 2
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191WELLINGTON. September 23. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9301, 24 September 1898, Page 2
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