WELLINGTON.
A WHITE MAN SELLS HIS CHILD TO A BLACK. June 29. The Post states that a European resident at Lower Hutt actually sold his own daughter, a little girl five years of age, to a Maori, for L2. The number of nominations received at the Immigration Office this month was ninety-eight. The establishment of a Temperance Working Men's Club is contemplated. J line 30. The Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report under date London, June 26: —"The wool market is unchanged. Sales closed firmly, and comprised about 268,000 bales—l4s.ooo being taken for the Continent, 5000 held for future disposal, and 5000 taken for America. A good many second-hand parcels were offered during the past sales.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 370, 30 June 1877, Page 2
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116WELLINGTON. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 370, 30 June 1877, Page 2
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