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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2003, 10 December 1886, Page 2

The Wanganui people are getting alarmed at the proapeot o( their trade being taken by the railway. The Herald conclude* an article upon the subject as follow*We do not wuh to act the part of a croaker, but we do think there is serious danger of the trade of , the place being lost to it in a great meeeate f if immediate and energetic effort* are not made to prevent so undesirable an occurrence. We therefor* once more direct the attention of our readers to a subject in which the whole district is vitally interested, and treat ttiat not a moment will be loat in putting the matter alluded to ou a batter looting ere It is too lata.

A policeman in the eighth errandlaemeat oI Peril married, in 1883, a young girl who had juat left an orphanage, bit who baa known nothing of her parent*. A f«w dan ago, ahortly after the birth of a aUU. tag officer received a oheoa« ICC.CoOfr, together with a letter aaking him to Uaa hla wife and child for the donor; the eomnmnlea* tion being aigned, >• Your Wife’a Mother." 4 The gigantic iron tower, which ia to be a leading feature of the 1889 Park ia to coat £805,000. The heigh) of the atraoton will be three titna* that of tha An Xriompfae.