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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1415, 13 May 1886, Page 2

So great has been the success of the “Australian Times" and “ Anglo-New Zealander" newspaper that it has been decided to publish weekly instead of fortnighily after the Ist May. We learn from the “Otago Daily Times’ that it is expected that the testimonial fund which is being raised in the Danatan electorate for Mr V. Pyke, M.H.R., will reach LICO. It is reported that a large coal area has been discovered in Cape Colony. It is traversed by the Midland and Western railway systems. L 50,000 annually, to dition of her public school loaouoto. 1 he South Auttraliaa “Register” says;— “ The cry of the hungry Is hear in our streets, and, despite the works which hav been started from time to time, unemployed are still far to numerous. The labouring classes are suffering most severly, and this notwithstanding that thousands have left us during the past few months for the other colonies, the exodus by sea alone forthe present year being some 3000 In excess of the arrivals. Deeply as we regret the necessity which has driven so many of the best of our colonists away from the colony, we can but congratulate those who have gone oo having the means fo seek for work where work was to be tound. Victoria proposes to spend an extri 1

We clip the follow] Wellington Evening Pr Zealand swagger is an lnd( the following earacioua i taken as a criterion. One lighted the other day on a between Eketahuna and asked the cook for a drink supplied to him, and was, course, succeeded by a rei thing to eat. The “doc accordirgly some sweet fr and butter, and offered it t “Oh ! I can’t go that t swager ; “hav’nt you got si potatoes 2” Regret was the camp was out of such the moment, and the hungt gambling at hie condemn tumbling across “such a as ha never saw afore !” tl fat—country 1