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! ■'■■ Hokitika, Friday. ''"■[ At a meeting of the Borough Council tonight a strong resolution was passed'against u the Railway Department, altering the one- -.";■ day overland service so that Hokitika was * cut out of the benefits of. the sen-ice except-* on Saturdays. The Council received eight tenders for water supply, three of which * were below the engineer's estimate. Con- '; sideration. was adjourned for 10 days in re- ' spouse to a ratepayers' deputation, which '. urged the acquirement of a larger . water j supply. to ,be used along the rente lor mitt- ! ing and power purposes. „ ; ~;■
-- ;/ Blenheim, Friday, , t At the inquest ou the body of Fred ■; Walker,, drowned in the Opaw.:t* River yes- i tealay, the jury found that he met his v death by drowning, no blame being attacked to anyone. Everything was done to'save-V? t' ; a life of the deceased. ~
- • Cork, Friday. *: The thoroughbred stallion Silkworm, one.--* ' of Mr. G. G. Stoad-'s crack- two-year-olds of v several seasons back,;;'died lust night as 'the-:>/•': result of an accident. -He gut- -caught and .;, s cut: about, in some barb wire, and died of ;blood-poisoning. His- owner intended put- j' ting him in training again next month.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 8
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