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Wan&anui, September 3. Some wreckage from the Queen Bee was picked up on the beach near Wanganui Heads. A chest containing wearing apparel marked Hilliard came ashore.
A special meeting of the Harbor Board resolved that authority be to borrow £IOO,OOO for improvement. The estimated revenue in five years is £10,600.
The Herald advocates that Picton should be fixed upon permanently, as the place for the annual prize firing. The cost of annually preparing the ranges will thus be saved, and the amount added to the prize-list, making the Champion Belt carry a money prize of £2OO, and other prizes increased in proportion.
Auckland, September 4. Great interest; was felt here in the race between the old Sydney trading steamer, Hero, and the Union Company's Eotorua, on which there was a large amount of betting. The steamers ! left Auckland within a quarter of an ■ hour, of each other. A cable message to the agents state that the Hero got in first, the Rotorua having knocked two of the Mades oft her pro-teller. Horris Hyrnan, a partner in a wholesale business firm, was remanded on a charge of forging a name to eight transfers of shares.
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Kumara Times, Issue 287, 5 September 1877, Page 2
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