THE BRITISH RESIDENT AT KABOTOK&A.
AUCKLAND, April 8. On the island of Rarotonga (Cook group) the natives lately gave a very cordial welcome to Mrs and the Misses Gudgeon (wife and daughters of the new British resident). The proceedings included the presentation of mats and hats by representatives of 11 villages, each gift being accompanied by an appropriate speech on the part of the donor. Toraare, a leading native chief, •who was attired in true native costume, then gave a long address, in which, on behalf of the chiefs and mataiapos and rougatiras, he gave Mrs Gudgeon and her daughters a cordial welcome, and stated that Atajor Gudgeon had been with them some time, and they had found him • "meitaki" (good), and the whole island hoped their stay amongst them would be - a long and a happy one.
Mr J. J. Mallard, of the Melbourne office fef the National Insurance Company, has been promoted to the management of that company's principal branch at Wellington, and enters on his duties next month.
Old fashions ir dress may be revived, but no bid-fashioned medicine can replace Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy for sale by all leading chemists.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 21
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196THE BRITISH RESIDENT AT KABOTOK&A. Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 21
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