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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1681, 18 May 1904, Page 78 (Supplement)

Some Patea residents are interesting themselves in the question of prospecting for coal near Rakaramea, where an extensive outcrop of lignite has been found. V . The "War Office is .presenting New Zealand with a pom-pom as ai trophy of the Boor war, and the weapon lias been shipped from England! on board the Oorintliio. ■ ■ • " In a- communication received by the Department ‘of Industries "and Commerce from Mr J. G. Grow, the colony’s commercial representative at Durban, Mr Gow states that the steam ar Norfolk had arrived a few daysbefore writing. Hearing she had sheep on board, he concluded - that they were from New Zealand, -blit found, upon inquiry, that they had be£n' shipped at Sydney. He felt something like chagrin on lemming y that ships subsidised by the New Zealand Government should be used to foster other trade*