NEW ZEALANDS TO VISIT
AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, August 9.
The New South Wales Bowling Aseoci*» tion has agreed that the visit of the N«TJf Zealand bowlers will be acceptable-.
One of the oldest Maoris in Nevr Zetifr land pa&sed away ia the person of Wiring Patene at Shoal Bay last week (says th* New Zealand Herald). The deceased, who! ■was 95 years of age, was a chief of thex Ngatiawa and allied tribes, and was a maaj of importance in the early 'days. As a young man he took part ia the fighting uj the- ITrewera and Bay of Plenty district* against the Ngapuhia, and in local inter* tribal fighting:. As he jrrew older he be/ came a man of peace, and he did much ;T his district to pacify the Nativef *S tis time of the T« Kooti trouble^
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Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 58
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139NEW ZEALANDS TO VISIT Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 58
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