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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 63, 6 March 1876, Page 4

Te Aho-o-te-Eangi, of Hamilton, Waikato, writes to the Waka Maori, objecting to notices of deaths being published in that paper. He says : — We hear nothing of these people during their lifetime, but when they die we are informed thafc they were chiefs, that they were generous and hospitable, and that they possessed a multitude of other virtues. My friends, this is a great absurdity. Why are nofc the names of these people published during their lifetime, that others might visit them and make trial of their generosity and hospitality ? The Post of March 2nd says : — Quite a sensation was created on the wharf this afternoon on the occasion of the departure for Picton of the recently married daughter of Wi Tako, who, with her husband, left in the Wellington. A large party of Maoris accompanied the " happy pair " to bid them farewell, and as the steamer glided away three ringing cheers were given in their honor. The party then with saddened faces adjourned to a neighboring hostelrie and liquored up all round in the most exclusive fashion till they became, quite hilarious, and amused the onlookers by the irrepressible enthusiasm of their demonstration. The obelisk to be erected at the Philadelphia Exhibition, and which is to represent the bulk of the gold exported from Queensland from 1868 — the Gym pie year — until the present time, is thus described by the Brisbane Telegraph: — The obelisk, which will be of pine, gilt, will be 20fb 2in high, by 3ft square at the base above the pedestal, tapering to 18in square at the top. This will be the 'counterfeit presentment' of no less than sixty-five tons,' or over £6,000,000 worth of gold. Around the obelisk will be arranged cubes, also of pine, gilt, each of which will represent the gold exported in each year from 186S to the present year. Altogether, the obelisk [and its appurtenances is likely to prove the most telling of all the Queensland exhibits, as appealing more directly to the minds of all classes. The Gawler Mercury records that on Saturday and Sunday, January 29 und 30, 125 sheep from flocks being driven from the North to Adelaide were destroyed by sunstroke.