PAPERSPAST

NEW EDINBURGH.

The Carbon arrived on the 2nd of August from Otago, and we hear that the purchase of the land there had been satisfactorily arrang, cd. The signatures of the chiefs were to be obtained and the payment for the land to be made oti the day after the Carbon sailed, f We have not heard positively who have obtained the contracts for the survey of the land, hut it is reported that Mr. Park .was one of the contractors. The Deborah, with Mr. Spain and Colonel Wakeiield, was to leave Otago for Nelson on the 30th of July, and would land Messrs. Park and Thomas at Cloudy Bay on her way to the Straits.

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