At Rivorton recently a man named Peter M'Farlane was fined £2and costs for travelling on the railway with a packet of dynamite. M'Farlane {(]M ni to take the explosive with him wherrhe left the train, but on remembering it he told the schoolmaster at Groper's Bush, and, the telegraph being set to work, the dangerous stuff was removed. It was intended to prosecute M'Farlane under the Public Works Act, which provides a penalty of £SO or two years' hard labour, but, owing to his straightforwardness and promptness in giving information, and the fact that he was not well off, he was only charged under the railway bylaws. S"er"t. Macdonnell mentioned that a few years ago the police seized a box of dynamite in a train at Rivertou, aud nobody had ever claimed it.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 322, 2 August 1898, Page 2
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133Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 322, 2 August 1898, Page 2
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