AUCKLAND.
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The mail steamer Zealandia has arrived. She discharged her mails at Motuihi, but brought no passengers. She has a clean bill of health, and awaits the outward passengers and mails at the
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Mouday. The Southern Cross has arrived from Levuka. t!
The schooner Windward Ho has reported the shooting of one of its boat's crew at Pentecost IslaDd.
Satisfaction is expressed at the presence of a United States frigate in those waters, ns the natives who murdered the May Queen's crew are believed to be the same as those who murdered Johnson, the American trader, und the American warship is expected to demand rcparition.
A deputation waited on the Governor to represent Ihe scarcity of labour, but the Governor said that owing to the miscalculation by the Agent-General of Immigration, and the difficulty of obtaining suitable vessels for the labor trade, there would be a scarcity this year.
Another lot of 150 Coolies has been placed on the estate of the Sugar Refining Company at Eewa.
The measles is still prevalent in some parts of the Group.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3917, 19 July 1881, Page 2
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181AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3917, 19 July 1881, Page 2
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