INTERPROVINCIAL.
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TIMARU, Friday. Jas. Clabk, aged 53, who has a wife and nine children, and who is a surface man on the railway at Makckehi, has been missing since yesterday morning, when he left home coatless. He has been melancholy lately, and, it is feared, has made away with himself. WELLINGTON, Friday. The workingmen on the PalmeratonAshurst Railway are protected under the Workingman's Wages Act, and may obtain an injunction to prevent the Government paying over any monies due to the contractor. The Government have in hand about £500 clue to the contractors for last month's work, and it 13 understood that several workmen have already taken steps to have this impounded. PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday. ■The hitch which occurred in connection with tie Palmerston-Ashurt Railway contract has not been settled, and work still remains stopped. No arrest has yet been made in connection with the Foxton safe robbers, though the pelice are following clues.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2698, 26 October 1889, Page 2
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158INTERPROVINCIAL. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2698, 26 October 1889, Page 2
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