Two Palmerston North investors were fortunate enough to draw a £50 cash prize between them in Tattersall's Melbourne Cup sweep. Several heavy charges of guncotton were exploded under the hull of the wrecked Waipara, which "was removed bodily, leaving a depth of over 20ft of water at tup plage jvuere J eke stranded* ' ■*
It is stated that the Motupipi coal shaft is now down. 40ft on a good seam. Word lias been 1 received at Adelaide that the blacks in the Northern Territory of South Australia are getting very troublesome. A man named Osborne was speared by them at : the. Victoria River, and tEey. also, filled six Shovse* aad ate itemfe
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Otago Witness, Issue 2436, 21 November 1900, Page 49
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