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AUCKLAND.

This day. Government paid £350 for the forty acres at Kawhia harbor.

A ram clipped at Tauranga recently gave 23 pounds of wool.

The main in Domain street burst yesternight, doing considerable damage.

A boy named Cowie, while playing in Bailey's shipbuilding yard, fell and fractured his skull. He is in a critical state.

A school of 30 whalos wan observed by

the ItiTig»roomn, during a late trip to Napier, off Cape Oolvillo.

Johnny Buchanau, who purchased the Coffee Palace site recently, sold it yesterday for £1000 advanced on bargain.

Another big land company, with a capital of £250,000 is on the tapis.

Ernest Engster, Commissioner for the Swiss} Court at the Adelaide Exhibition, has purchased, on behalf of a syndicate of Swiss gentlemen, a large block of nearly 4,000 acres of virgin land in Pukekohe. It is intended to survey and subdivide the block, and then have it settled by industrious farmers, chiefly Swiss. He believes there is better scope for hardworking, thrifty tillers of the soil in the colonies than in the old country. The new settlement is to be called Helvetia.

(Per Press Association.)

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Bibliographic details
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4350, 9 December 1882, Page 2

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188

AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4350, 9 December 1882, Page 2

AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4350, 9 December 1882, Page 2

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