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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13168, 26 July 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)

' The railways the Minister for Public Works looks upon as a most valunb'o asset, and if thoy were put on the London market would more than pay the wholo of the national debt of New Zealand. If tliev were sold they would get more than double what they had cost. If the; telegraph and telephone lines were disposed of they would realise three times what they had cost, s», in the railways and telegraph lines the people had a safe and sound 'inrest*ment. " ■ ; A remarkable coinridenoe has just happened at Opotiki. Somo three years ago a local setler agreed to purchase a piece of land from a Native named Kurei. A. meeting was arranged to complete the transaction, but on the day jn question the parties , concerned missed each other, and next j morning Kurei was dead and his son reigned" in his stead. Negotiations' for the land proceeded later •between the settler and the son. ffirl it "was arranged ten days ago thH the deed should he completed. On tho ap- .' pointed day the settler turned up, I only to learn that Kurei number two t had been found dead in his bed that I morning. " .