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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 162, 9 July 1903, Page 2

Onr Russell correspondent telegraphs that Cook Bros, secured a whale on Tuesday and two on Wednesday. This makes fifteen secured this season.

Mahuta says when he goes to Parliament he is going to make a statement— that he is one with King Edward, and that he expects the Government and the Premier to carry out all the promises that they have made respecting the Maoris in days gone by. Mahuta will do his utmost to see that these promises are carried out. He will go to Wellington with that in view; that is his special work. When he has done that work he will rest awhile and allow the other members to do the work they have to do.

\ Mr Henare Kaihau, M.H.R., recently afforded a pleasing symbol of the social advancement of the Maori race by going through the Britisn form of marriage with his charming half-caste wife, Mrs Louisa Kaihau. Mr and Mrs Kaihau were married several years ago after Maori custom, and their bonnie daughter of five or six years was present yesterday, when, in the presence of the Hon. Bang Mahuta, >the resolemnisation of the marriage after pakeha laws was formally announced. The Rev. W. Gittos, of the Weeleyan Maori Mission, performed the ceremony. Mrs Kaihau's maiden name was Louisa Flavell, and she was of the Ngatoteata tribe, dwelling at Waiuka.

Messrs W. Sullivan, J. P. Nerheny, and A. Glover left for Wellington to-day to attend the colonial conference of the Liberal and Labour Federation (of which Mr Seddon is president) opening in Wellington on Saturday morning next. The Hon. W. Beehan, who is now in Wellington, and Messrs J. Patterson and T. Harle Giles, who will go down on Sunday next, are the other delegates from Auckland. The conference will sit till Wednesday next. The delegates who went down to-day take with them a valuable gold watch subscribed for by the Auckland members of the Federation for presentation to the Hon. W. Beehan during the proceedings of the conference.

The six applicants selected by committee for'the position vacated by Mr Knight, derk of works to the Auckland City Council, for final decision by the Council to-night are:—Messrs Archer (X>unedin), Archer (Chriatchureh), and four northern men, Messrs Brady, Clayton, Blair, and Gardner. Recommended by the Medical ■■ Faculty —WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS.