Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 5
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According to the correspondent of the Opotiki Mail, Tauranga has just sold to a collector of curiosities « the usual figurehead of the original canoe in which the original Maoris arrived on the shores of New Zealand. » This, he says, makes the thirteenth, and there are more to follow. He is, we think, mistaken. The figurehead was sold as that of the canoe in which the local Maoris put off to visit Capt. Cook. As they did not go out in a canoe to see him, the relic is just as genuine as the great majority of its species.