Six hundred aores of the Waimarama run were sold recently by auction at Hastings for £7 7s per acre. In the course of his Greymouth soeeoh, the Premier, alluding incidentally to the constitution of the Ministry, said emphatically that it ought to be composed of the best men, irrespective of geographical considerations or provincial sentiment. It has been truly said that the average Britisher takes his pleasures sadly. A looal resident, who, says the Mataura Ensign, claims to have spent a week's restful holiday at Riverton, oontrived during that time to get lost in the bush until long after midnight, to fall into the river in 15 feet of water while fishing, to get capsized twice out of sailing boats, and to narrowly escape being wrecked in a gale while cruising in a motor launch.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7943, 18 January 1906, Page 5
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135Untitled Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7943, 18 January 1906, Page 5
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