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[press agency.] Auckland, September 21. The Colonial Bank are establishing a branch at Cambridge and Waikato. The jewellers have adopted the Saturday half-holiday. A company has been formed for the purpose of sending out prospectors throughout the Hauraki Peninsula. ■ Wellington, September 21. The barque Courier, which has been purchased by a company, has been fitted out for a trading expedition to the North East Coast of New Guinea, and will leave to-morrow or with the first favorable wind. Patea, September 21. Jno. M ‘Lean, the cook of Fraser and Fregears survey part on the Momohaki block, was found drowned on Thursday, and it was believed he had slipped down the steep bank into the river. It was afterwards found that powder and bullets had been stolen from the tent, and at the inquest to-day a ballot was found in the man’s head, which leaves little doubt but what he has been murdered.
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Kumara Times, Issue 620, 23 September 1878, Page 2
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