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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 37, 17 December 1901, Page 3

i The Golden Bay Argus says : We i regret to learn that it is the intention of the Slate River Sluicing Company to indefinitely postpone the completion of the big dam at Toi Toi F!at, and that all the workmen will be discharged next Aveek. Nearly sixty men will thus be thrown out of employment, for a time, at least. Mr Partiey, a wealthy Primitive Methodist, has donated L 6,000 to the Wesleyan LI ,000,000 fund in England. Cable and Co., of the Empire City, have at present dredges in course of construction for the Aorere River and Golden Bay Companies at Collingwood. The orders will probably be completed in about six months. 215,000 of timber shipped from Waitapu during December. Quartern! aster-Sergeant G. A. Dougall (Wanganui), of the Third Contingent, who was reported dead, arrived in Wellington last Wednesday. He 1 spent most of the time since January • in the hospital. He served in Lord* Roberts' bodyguard.