INTERPROVINCIAL.
(BI TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION'.) WESTPORT, Laat Night. The result of the landslip on the Westport Coal Company's incline has been repaired, and coal lowering operations were resumed thie afternoon. The company has instituted a new system of working the coal mines and contracts will take the place of day labour and pibce-work. Pillar coal will be hewn for 2a 4d per ton, the price hitherto paid being 2a 10il, trucking will alao be let by contract. One shift only in future will be worked, and other proposals for reducing tho expenses are under consideration. MASTERTON, Last Night The Rev. W. Rowse, who was for many years a Maori missionary, states that the condition of the natives in the Wairarnpa at the present time is deplorable, and they have less respect for Christianity than they had before the Maori war.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3009, 27 October 1891, Page 3
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140INTERPROVINCIAL. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3009, 27 October 1891, Page 3
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