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Hokitika, July 29. At a crowded public meeting in the Town Hall—the Mayor in the chair —to consider the state of the Hokitika River, the following resolnt : ons were carried “ That it is highly necessary for the safety of the port that all the water of Hokitika River be concentrated in one channel; that the Borough Council be requested to take the advice of a competent engineer with regard to the advisability of making a wingdam at or near the point where the old wingdam stood, for the purpose of turning the water running down the north channel into the lagoon, and that the Borough Council be requested to spend such money as necessary to give effect to the opinion of the meeting; and that if a Hirbor Trust be appointed, the money expended be refunded to the ratepayers ” A committee was appointed to confer with the Borough Council on the subject.
Wellington, July 31. The, Lima is engaged sounding in Cook’s Straits with the object of getting a course free of rocks for the second cable. Oaptain Johnson conducts the survey. The deep sea sounding machine (Sir William Thomson’s invention) has been found to answer admirably. The principal part of the work is now completed, and the Luna will probably return to-morrow.
lima Be Murska’s concerts have been so crowded that a second season is announced.
New Plymouth, July 31. There is considerable excitement here on account of a memorial having been sent by the Sabbath Observance Committee to the Minister of Public Works, in which it was stated that the community, as a whole, were opposed to trains running on Sundays. A large number of leading gentlemen have taken the matter up, and a counter-memorial is now being very numerously signed. Letters are appearing in the papers accusing the clergymen composing the Sabbath Ob seivance Committee of falsehood. {From our ovm Gorrtngnkil ( Oamaru, July 31. The Harbor Board has signed a contract with Messrs Walkem. and Peyman for 100 ft extension of the breakwater.
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Evening Star, Issue 4189, 31 July 1876, Page 3
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339BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Evening Star, Issue 4189, 31 July 1876, Page 3
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