THE GOVERNOR.
♦ — [Per Press Association/! , . AUCKLAND, Jan. 10.' His Excellency the Governor and party left Tailranga by the Hinemoa yesterday. His Excellency visited and inspected the old cemetery, and made a sketch of the grave of his cousin, Lieutenant Muir, of the Forty-third Light Infantry, who was killed at Gate Pa, and also took a copy of the inscription on the tombstone. His Excellency was highly pleased at the state the cemetery is kept in, but considered that the retaining wall on the beach sadly •needed repairing. He took a note of the state' of the wall, and an estimate of the cost of repairing it, with a view of trying- to get something done to it. \
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5461, 13 January 1896, Page 4
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117THE GOVERNOR. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5461, 13 January 1896, Page 4
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