TELEGRAMS.
(Pee Peess Association.)
AUCKLAND.
This day
The Zealandia on her last trip to 'Frisco took a parcel of Greymouth coal for the purpose of testing its steaming qualities. M. Kieched, an Australian naturalist, has returned to Auckland after a six months' residence in the West Coast Sound. He intends publishing a tourists band-book for the Sounds and Alpine region. M. de Harven had an interview with the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The Chairman promised to supply him with statistics of the province, and samples of the products. The production of " Israel in Egypt," by the Choral Society, is said to be the greatest musical success achieved in Auckland. The singers comprised 50 soprani, 28 contralti, 39 tenori, 43 bassi, with 45 in the orchestra.
William Barton, Waikato Maori missionary, is dead. At the time of the war in 1863 he rendered service to the colony by furnishing information to the Government, and by steadily refusing to join the rebels and inducing his tribe and a large number of other natives to remain loyal.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4949, 19 November 1884, Page 2
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174TELEGRAMS. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4949, 19 November 1884, Page 2
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