nnHE GAOL SITE. Every business man will agree that the resolve of the City Council fco accept the Governments £3000 aud re-erpcb the gaol on its present site is a wise choice of tbe alternatives offered thetn. "£3OOO and Castle streefc or elsewhere and nothing ! " thunders the Government, and the council reply, " Pass along the dibba, Richard ! " What else could they do ? This is a present and future gain fco the working man. The £3000 goes into preocne consumption at a very opportune time, aud in three or four years a more intelligent Government will come m, and will give the council £10,000 to shift its gaol to a more becoming bite. Tho working man scores again, and so he should. He is the consistent supporter of the Waterbury Watch, and the backbone of his country.
Mr James R. Duncan, head machinist iv the Auckland Star office, died la<fc week. He was a native of Glasgow, and his father waß inventor of the Viotory printing machine,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2111, 9 August 1894, Page 35
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