It will be 'seen m another oolumn that tenders are invited" for * the supply and delivery of I'.OOO telegraph poles, to -be delivered at Wellington. Specifics t pits may He seen at the. Telegraph office', Carterfcon, Foxton, Palmerston North, . Feilding and the Head office, Wellington. There has been a recent discovery by Mr J. Mackenzie, of a -track reducing the distance between the Hutt Valley and the township of Fahautanui to four and a half miles, the old road between the two places being nearly thirty miles, m length. In the old days, when Captain, now Sir George Grey, was Governor, the* natives used to harass the Hutt settlers, - and then mysteriously disappear, and it is supposed that the newly discovered track is the one tliey ,then made use of. — " Colonist."
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 87, 18 August 1877, Page 2
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