RAG LAN.
The -warm, weather has now fairly set in, and delicious fruit is coming in fabt from all quarters of the district. The natives about hero and Kdwhia are very bu.sy catching fi-h, in preparation for the approaching feast at Hikimingi, which id to take place about March or April. The well-known chief, TapilunaTiriwa, died at Kawhia on the 4th February, at the aqfe of 80 years. He was a chief of the Ngatipuhiawe tribe, and was a man who was greatly respected by boch pakehas and Maoris. His death is greatly deplored by the native". There is shortly to be a laige tant/i held over him. The native crops of wheat have turned out pretty well, but I am af laid that their potato crops have failed, and that there will be starvation among 1 the natives dm ing this year. The arrival of the mails hero is very unsatisfactory, as, for instance, the one due at 6 o'clock last uisrht did not reach here till 10.30 a m. to-day. — (Correspondent, February 12.)
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Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1346, 15 February 1881, Page 2
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175RAGLAN. Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1346, 15 February 1881, Page 2
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