MAORI CORONATION.
CEREMONY AT RAGLAN
The coronation of '" King" Te Rata Mahuta will take place at Raglan on Monday. A very large number of invitations to both Maoris and pakehas has been issued in connection with the ceremony. Wagons laden with provisions have been on the road throughout all this week, bound for the Te Kapua settlement. The commissariat, which is on a very extensive scale, includes thirty tons of potatoes, forty pigs, considerably over a hundred sheep, and bullocks are being killed at the rate of two a day. About two tons of fish have been caught, and are now undergomo- a drying process. The big meeting house, 60 by 2iift., is almost completed, and this will be supplemented by a marquee measuring oOft. by 25ft. There will be a bic church meeting to-morrow, the corona- i tion ceremony being fixed for Monday.! Native affairs will also be subsequently discussed, and the gathering is looked' forward to as one of the largest and most important that has taken place for many years past. Fully two thousand natives are expected to be present, some coming from as far away as Taur_nga and Taupo.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 22 February 1913, Page 5
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193MAORI CORONATION. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 46, 22 February 1913, Page 5
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