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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1318, 3 June 1897, Page 10

paper, to bo called the and Wereroa Guardian, is to be started at Levin. Included in the cargo shipped from Port Chalmers by tho cargo steamer Waikato were 50,000 frozen rabbits. The North Otago Times (Oamaru) learns that tho management of the Dunedin morning journal h; s intimated to tho compositors on its staff that in twelve months their services will no longer be required, it being the intention of the company to introduce tho linotype machines. A subscription - list for tho Wellington Hospital Operating Theatre Fund ba3 been opened at the Hutt County Council office. Mr W. S. Milne has donated .£1 towards the fund. A circular is about to be issued by the newly-formed Institute of Marino Engineers for Now Zealand to all the marine engineers in the colony, inviting them to become members. The committee has received manypromisos of support. The Record Reign is to be celebrated at Wanganui by a fireworks display on the racecourso. A public meeting decided that the show should be free, and the Herald suggests that the Borough. Council should vote .£IOO to the Mayor as an honorarium on the understanding that he will expend the amount in crackers and blue squibs. The missing man Charles Laidley is now reported to have been seen in the Wairarapa. The Carterton Observer says: rumoured that Laidley passed through Carterton about a fortnight ago. There are several people in this district who know ipm,”