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Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 3920, 23 September 1891, Page 2

VERY LATEST.

[By Telegraph.]

(United Press Association.)

Arrival of the Talam.

Wellington, Wednesday.

The R.M.S. Tainui, Captain Evans, arrived from London at 7 o'clock this morning. Her dates are, Plymouth August 9th, Teneriffe August 14th, Cape Town August 30th, Hobart September 19th. Variable weather was experienced throughout tha voyage, which was an uneventful one. She brings 17 packages of mails, 32 boxes parcel post, and 101 passengers for New Zeahnd. J. Macpherson, late of the "Mamari," comes as chief engineer

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