200 MORE SPECIALS.
HASTINGS CONTINGENT. At eleven o'clock last night 200 mounted special constables arrived at the Lambton station from Hastings. An ercort of botween four and five hundred "specials" met. them at the station and took them to the Mount- Cook barracks, where they are to bo billeted. The now arrivals are a sturdy-looking lot and they stato that tlicy are here to sea that tho trade of the Dominion is continued unmolested. Among tho specials are several shearers, who accepted an invitation to conio at an instant's notice. When , seen by a reporter the shearers stated that they had just finished work and had pone down to the station to see their comrades depart. Immediately they were seen they were invited to join the "specials," which they did. ■ The new arrivals and their cscorfc passed through tho city shortly after .midnight.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 8
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143200 MORE SPECIALS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 8
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