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No. 2. The Undeb-Seceetaey, Native Affairs, to the Eesident Magistbate, Hokianga. (Telegram.) Government Buildings, 19th February, 1884. Letter in Auckland Herald reports large number of deaths in your district from low fever epidemic Will_you please report if such is the case, and generally as to the health of the Natives at Hokianga? T. W. Lewis, S. von Stunner, Esq., E.M., Hokianga. Under-Secretary.

No. 3. The Eesident Magistbate, Hokianga, to the Undee-Secbetaby, Native Office. (Telegram.) Hokianga, 20th February, 1884. Eetubned from Whangape and Waitapu this morning. A few cases of low fever at Herekino Two have ended fatally. There is very little more sickness than in former years at this season As long as they live on the low lands it must continue. Spencer von Stuemeb, The Under-Secretary, Native Office, Wellington. Eesident Magistrate.

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