AUCKLAND NEWS.
[Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, Jan. 27. Colonel Pole-Penton had a meeting with several volunteer officers of the Auckland district. He urged the desirableness of obtaining accessions to thecompaniessoasto i bring them up to the standard strength, i and also that the artillery companies should be drilled more frequently at the batteries on the North Shore. 1 At a meeting of the Council of the 1 Chamber of Commerce, the Telegraph Department advised that the Government i was not at present prepared to reduce the , cable rates, as there was still s. consider- \ able loss on intercolonial business. The matter was referred to tho incoming ; council. A youth named William Franklin, said to be recently from Sydney, has been committed for trial for breaking and entering.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6089, 28 January 1898, Page 1
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