INTERPROVINCIAL.
(BY TIiLKGIUI'JI. —I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.) TIMARU. Friday. W. Frances, a waiter at the Club Hotel lias been committed for trial for the larceny of a pocket book containing a £20 note and papers. It appears that he piuked up the pocket book on the street, had a bottle of champagne on the strength of finding it, and next day endeavoured to change the note. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. It was rumoured iu town this morning that in conscquencc of a letter sent to England by a member of the Ministry, the Midland Railway Company had coLapsed and all work was about to be given up. Mr Allan Scott, general manager here, admits that certain damaging and incorrect information sent from the colony to London has done the company an immense amount of damage, and once delayed operations. There is, however, no question whatever of abandonment of the work.
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Waikato Times, Volume 2611, Issue 2611, 6 April 1889, Page 2
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146INTERPROVINCIAL. Waikato Times, Volume 2611, Issue 2611, 6 April 1889, Page 2
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