INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS
frßft UXITBD FBBBS AMOOUTIOX.) Wellington, August 10. The Public Worki Department hare received the following telegram from the engineer in charge of the fiotorua railway works re the supposed subsidence of Rotorua towmhip : — " I have ohecked the levels of a section from the bush to the terminus. These were level before the eruption. I now find them unchanged nnd am able to positively assert that neither an upheaval nor anj subsidence has taken place. Thomas Glew. ex- publican, and latterly billiard marker at the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, dropped dead in the billiard mom tonight. The cause is supposed to be heart disease. Bluff, This Day. Mr O'Connor, who was connected with the wreck of the Pel ham, is a passenger by the Maori which arrirvd Here thin ' morning. The Peiham is still in the iame position as when she first struck, ; and the sea having betn smooth since j Ihursday morning, no further damage ' ; lias been done. About 80 toss of coal bare been landed.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 12 August 1886, Page 2
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