AUCKLAND NEWS
(])Y TELEGRAPH.— OWN COKnESI'OMM'.NT.) Auckland. Last Nicrht. Applications fm , enrillir.ent in the Ohura Special Settlement now number iivr! than 150 sulKcient to form five siicci.il setl.li>.mont associations. The bulk of applicants ore fanners' sons in this province, but in many cases the father also enters his nuine showing intention on the part of the whole family to sell out and move on to more kindly soil. In other cases the fathers will remain here and send store cattle to fatten on the Ohur.i hinds. A large, number of influential Maoris, over thirty in nil, belonging to theNgapuhi tribe were in town t)-day on their way from the North to Nnnior, to attend an important native convention which opens in the H«wke's Bay district on the 14th inst. Most of them arrived this morning from Russell by the Clansman. Mr McKerrow, Chief Commissioner (if Railways, was occupied with .Departmental matters not of general interest today. He returns South by thu Tekapo this evening. Hon. li. Seddon, in his capacity as Minister of Mines, to-day paid a visit to the Bank of New Zealand at the invitation of the directors of the \Vaihi Company, and inspected bullion which comprised 20,000 ounces valued at £5000.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3106, 11 June 1892, Page 2
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204AUCKLAND NEWS Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3106, 11 June 1892, Page 2
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