INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
[PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION.]
Auckland, June 2,
The unemployed have got the Mayor to -elegraph a resolution passed at a mee'fng, name y that the Government bo asked to apen relief works at once for 200 men.
Pour deserter from the. American whaler, Petrel have made a charge of great cruelty against ll e oiptain and ua e It is alleged th-t they deserted to reach Auckland end complain to the American Consul. Captain Webb, Acting-C nsul, left for ‘Russell to-night to investigate the oh >.rge.
Mr Vailc, the railway reformer, leaves for Wellington to morrow to give evidence before the Railway Charges Committee in the interest of the Had way Reform League.
Inveucakgill, June .2 The“ Southland News” reports that Mr T. J Thompson, late Underwriters’ Surveyor at the Bluff, and a wed-known resident there, was one of those drowned in the Lj -80-moon. He lately resigned his appdntment, and went on a trip to Australia. He was a man of great energy and enterprise in developing the mineral resources cf the district, being the discoverer of the Nightcaps Coalfields, and more receratly a patentee of cement made from uca eiials found at the Bluff, and wh.ch promised to be a success.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1254, 3 June 1886, Page 2
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204INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1254, 3 June 1886, Page 2
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