DUNEDIN.
This day.
A child 2} years old, named McLauchlin, was drowned in the Shag Point Coal Company's dam. The OtaßO Vigilance Committee waited on Mr Mitchelson, re the Otago Central Bailway; the Minister replied, acknowledging the necessity of pushing on the work as rapidly as possible, and said he would give instructions to the Engineer in Chief to prepare contracts for the neces* sary tunnels, and viaducts; and have -tenders called—faE-Lhem.. as ...soon- as the documents were completed. The line would be made as far as the Deep Stream, and it would be his endeavour, during his term of office, to have the works which had been passed pushed on as rapidly as possible ; he did not believe in keeping them hanging over so long as had been hitherto done. He expressed an opinion that if; was not in the province of the Government to find work for the unemployed, except in very extreme cases.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4657, 7 December 1883, Page 2
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156DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4657, 7 December 1883, Page 2
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