* A Royal Commission was appointed to distribute the blame due in the abandonment of the depot at Cooper's Creek, and the consequent deaths of Btirke and Wills. It ascribed faults to the Exploration Committee, to Wright, and to the impetuosity of Burk«; and, though it could not exonerate Brahe it refrained from condemning him, being " confident that tha painful reflection that twentyfour hours! further perseverance would have made him, the rescuer of the explorers, andgained for. himself the praise and approbation of all, must be of itself an agonising, thought without the addition, of censure he might feel himself undeserving of."
Levin, a growing* town on the Manawatu* line, is about to erect gasworks at a cost, roughly, of £1X),OOQ.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 86
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