WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES.
(Fkom Our Own Corsksposdp.st.l WELLINGTON. April ?o. If is staled that Ihe Maori Conference at Papawai. near Grevtown, was favournb.lv impressed with the Government's prnnosnl to lease surplus Native lands to European?. The Go l hie left for London to-day. Amongst her cargo wcro 12,000 boxes cf butter!
The Government is beittT asked to acquire the Waimarama. Waipuko. and Okehau blocks in Hawke's Ray, which will afford 55.000 acres for settlement. A Government valuer is at, present assessing the Pnke-l-nr.i block near Te Ante, em! a block of 4400 acres near Waipawa. Tho Government is also likelv to acquire |l>p estate of 'he Hon. Randal Johnston in the Hawke's Ray d.i?''-ict. Tlr own n r is en absentee.
The marriage nf Or Pii>r>w>. of Palmerston \orlh. to Mks .Muriel Finch, second daii'rbter of Air ('. F. Finch. New Zealond inspector of Ihe Bank of New South Wales, tool; place hew to-day.
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Otago Daily Times, 27 April 1906, Page 5
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