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LATEST Telegraphic.

(united press association.) Auckland, May 12. Iq response to a request from the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr Mitchelson, M.H.R, late Minister for Public Works, has furnished a report upon several lines of railway, the North of Auckland Railway, the Trunk Line Branch Line eastward to Napier, Rotorua to GLborne, Deep Water Extension to Whangarei, and Loop Line, Auckland to Penrose. At a meeting of the Operative Bootmakers’ Union, it was decided to moderate the demand upon the employers. The tariff has been revised, and a reduction made in several instances. Mr Noble’s temperance mission meeting was very success! ul. He intends going South it invited. Dunedin, May 12. Margery Turner and George Campbell, a couple who attempted to elope to Melbourne and were arrested at the Bluff, appeared at the Police Court on a charge of stealing linen belonging to Mrs Turner’s husband. The -charge against the woman was withdrawn by "the husband, and the case against Campbell was adjourned, bail being allowed. The Land Board to-day resolved to recommend the Government to set aside a thousand acres under the Homestead system in the Waikaia District, and to request the Sur-veyer-General to report as to the suitable blocks in other districts. Christchurch, May 12. The Directors of the Southern Cross Petroleum Company have received advices from Rotokautuka that the bore, on Friday last, was down 430 feet, and that the drill was 258 feet in advance of the pipes, with a fair show of oil. The quantity of gas in the bore is sufficient to support a continnoua flame when ignited.

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 741, 14 May 1886, Page 17

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LATEST Telegraphic. New Zealand Mail, Issue 741, 14 May 1886, Page 17

LATEST Telegraphic. New Zealand Mail, Issue 741, 14 May 1886, Page 17

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