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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 296, 17 November 1883, Page 2

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(unxted p^Esaj^soofyrTft^^^ ■: L Major Atkinson, being^m Dunedin to-day, visited Port Chalwero, along with Messrs John Martin, M.L.C., J. C- Brown, M.H.R., and Mr Ross, "Chairman of the Harbor Board, and JSs^JSS££!Sffi§BiL- .-fe&- UffirvfaapQia- of seeing tne slern-jx>sb forged, by Messrs Sparrow and Co., for the Rotomahana. is,a work.,oj gi;eat magnitud<>,^wd>the visitors" warmly complimented Mr upon its successful completiort. • ; adjournment was made to Dodson'js ;.!Sq|el, were druuk. the Dunedin Peninsula and Ocean j ; r ߀a^i ? Rj^way has beon^purcha^ed by J a"n"e V proprietary , A and will "be starteti ,; as., a rtmmway ser\ ice shortly. The old Company have not been making use Of the line for a considerable time past. ■ ,f\The^si|m\o£ £^50jhas bibn remitted. 'fr6m "btkgb m" aid ofHtfe . existing m the. Highlands and islands "oT l Scotland. : 6f this shm £fcO' "was" raised m the Oamaru district alone. \ Oamaru, November 15. i li - -The fii-st day's show of North Otago jAgiicuH^ral and P^J»i > al Association was held to-day. Durmq; 1 the latter "|sart of the day heavy rain fell. The aWiendttnfce. was^ifaiu'- TKtf shdw'^df . H ( jpok was quite equal to any of the previonf sfrdws of the Association. I — Nkw Plymouth, Not. 15. \ f rA|* poll: 'was '.tnken yesterday on two questi6ns'-^(l ! ) the burgessep wej^.in favour of a number of nnsold Jovm^ectionsii whicfl^av^'4beeiPuVed as a i«cecoi^^*^^ t^RJws f^ffi^S?F tb * tjiie bor^jglt|^it|irpower to lease foj.*. 21- years -iis^^wHdle for horse-racingj, [ cricket, building,, or, other purposes.; ibi<l (2) whether 'che^ sections should be j jnade.over m perpetuity as a reserve foi* ' i-tEil-rise of ihe^TaranaM^o^keyllßli Society, and ( -general recreation gronnds. The r€>-| the polling was — Crown grant- ' ing t§. r boroagh, 270 ; agains,t, 15^ ■ , „ ,f>seV, sqi) Waikatd, 'Mbrii.^^ifesed town eaify yes ! teral^ ( iiior4-