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Christchurch, August 2
A private letter received here stales that 'ho Kaiapoi Woollen Company’s manufactures attracted much attention at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, and that ihe i’rince of Wales had ordered a suit of tholr mstociais from a West End tailor. The Mayor of Christchurch sent' a congratulatory telegram to the Mayor of Kaiapoi on the subject t > lay. Mr Avigdor, another partner of the firm of McKeona and Robinson, the Midland Railway contractors, is expected to arrive in New Zealand shortly. Mr Robinson expressed himself agreeably surprised with the character of the country he passed through on his trip to the West Coast.
At the Plutnpton Park ourslng meeting to-day, Mr J. W. Mills’ Miss Taylor and Mr J. B. Courtney’s Radian :e divided the stakes for the August Cap.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1305, 3 August 1886, Page 2
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134CHRISTCHURCH ITEMS Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1305, 3 August 1886, Page 2
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