INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.
(FROM' TIMES.) Hawera, June 14. The cxcitemc'n { at formality is intense • and the p];iee is. being-, enlarged so_as to cC'?ximrauVti\c ijiisji. wijicli, "offers a splendid cover" For , £in " enemy's attack. Business and occupations nre: neglected, and everybody appears .to be busy erecting V block house,- which- will be y/ianncd day aiidnrglit'by tlie'local defence force-.'- This means heavy work for the settlors,,, if Government keeps • •the ; -lompin "suspense'! The settlers', armed and. ; organised,/'caii defy the Maoris., ,If/necessary, at a?'few- ** bonrS' notice,.. ;spVcral vwoll ;sitmated hox)ses in variolic jpafts of; tbe- township,could be transfdrhK'd' ■ inta'/blocfc houses! as firraiiged by Major Noake, by digging ♦ trenches icand,.; Jbrpa§t ■ works. Business, ;:Jtiioughclull,..has_ never been ■ suspended. '■- ■■■■■■■ ■ .:•• -.- ','■■'■.;'■,'':' '■ ;' '• InvHaiverft: things';- go on. their usual coitrse. ■'•: :i 'Thfe ;c]nl]s : ;&re ; ; inos J tl^ i a't night, time. A few. of the. most,- exposed sei^ tfers have;; their families to" sleep in town until tilings'are more ;Sett^el: H^-,B^w^t^i'aft.»CLv ■.IQIIP-α?^ ** put to' inconv-enieiMse f w>v: v. i '-' Vir, "-'\-^^
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 304, 17 June 1879, Page 3
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159INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 304, 17 June 1879, Page 3
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