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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3021, 21 October 1878, Page 2

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Saturday. The boating seuson was opened' this afternoon with a procession of boats on TuLaekuri river, in which the boats of the three clubs and the telegraph operators, and of vessels in port took part. There were several scratch matches afterwards. The weather wan very fine, and the at tendance of spectators large. A case of supposed small-pox at the Spit has been exciting some alarm the last few days. The child afflicted with, the disorder is under medical treatment for smallpox, but it is considered by bis medical attendant to be of a mild type. One medical man,.however, says it is not smallpox at all/ The boy was vaccinated in 1875:

The Wananga to-day contains an apology in Maori to Major Mair for a libel against him in a letter published in that paper. The Wananga does not give the English version of the apology, but the following is a correct translation:— " Notice to all the world—This is a notice to all the men and all the people of the world. It ia all false and slanderous the words of the letter of Te Arawa Katoa, which were published in the Wananga (vol. 5, No. 27, page 342), speaking of Mr Mair and his family, whom we have known for over thirty years, and we have neither aeen, known, or heard anything wrong of them all those years, down to the present time. The- words of that 1 Jtter of ' Tft Arawa Katoa' are perfectly false, and without any foundation, for we know that they (the Mairs) are descended from respectable people, and have been holding high positions all the days and the years they have been in the island. They cannot be accused by anyona of having done any wrong whatever. We are sorry, indeed, that those lying accusations should have been published in the Wananga by mistake. — Editor Wananaga." The Cheevers and Bent minstrels> are drawing splendid houses. Madamoiselle Charbonnet opens on Tuesday, night.