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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9653, 30 January 1903, Page 3

In the Waikato a llaxniiller owns four mills and employs over 200 men, besides 24 waggoiis and four bullock drays. If there is any missionary enterprise lying around loose, as the Americans say, Taihape (and not China) presents a field f or itvs exercise. The inhabitants of that way-back locality hubitually hold horse nice meetings and cricket 'and football matches m season on Sundays, and at a recent "grass-fed hack" function held on the Sabbath about five hundred men, women and children, were present. The repbx'ts current that the Melba tour of New Zealand had been, abandoned turn out to bo quite unfounded. A private cablegram Iki-s been received stating that Muaame Melba. will perform at Launccslou on February 12, and then comes on to New Zealand. Mudaine Melba gave three concerts m Perth, which were wonderfully successful. The largest hall there was packed nightly, aud a guinea was freely paid, for standing room iv the wings. v : - ■■'"