TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.
♦— Projected Canal. TaubjLnoa, November 7 A scheme for the construction of a canal from Tauraoga harbor to Te Kuke, an important settlement seventeen miles from here, has again been resuscitated, and Mr Purvis, solicitor, who goes Home, intends trying to float it. The canal would go through a block of rich swamp land, and the idea is to get a grant of the land to capitalists willing to carry out tbe work, which would provide inland communication by water, and render some thousand of acres of excellent swfcmp land fit for settlement. Thermal Springi Act. A petitioa ib being circulated here for the abolition of the Thermal Springs Act.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1705, 7 November 1887, Page 3
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111TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1705, 7 November 1887, Page 3
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