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[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION
Auckland, this day. Alfred Firth, a youiig English tourist, was fjrqwned at Ohinemutu yesterday. Tawhiao, with 300 horseinen, )jas arrived at Maketu. The Volunteers propose erecting a monument to Major Withers, Captain H. V, Shepherd succeeds Withers in command of Yolpteers.
New Plymouth, Tuesday, Mr Oarkeek, the surveyor employed to explore the country between Stratford and Mokau for a railway, reports that the country through which he went was good land, and that there were many suitable routes for either road or railway, He says there are no engineering difficulties in tho way to take a railway through the country. Mr Carkeek corroborates all Mr Chase, surveyor, nowof Auckland, reported eight years ago, respecting tlje cqnntyy, whq %n sajc}; " The first sixty miles was undoubtedly a good line for a railway, and he saw no difficulty for a railway being taken along the route he went towards Auckland."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 5 June 1883, Page 2
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152TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 5 June 1883, Page 2
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