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Show MAORI WEDS AN IRISHMAN. The chief ta mess of the Ma:ris. Mrs. Donnelly or. to giv her . her native name. Airini Karauria has now returned re-turned to Xew'. Zealand after her visit to Great Britain. ' The lady is the daughter of .Karauria, the chief who lost his life ir1Sl fiRht-ing fiRht-ing for the English after te massacre of Poverty Bay, and theie of Re-nata. Re-nata. formerly a treat 4,'hting chief cf the Maoris. She Avas brought up f Renata, who gave her the . best Erilish education at Wellington, and shevs considered by her kinsfolk to be almost sacred personage, her birth' having been prophesied by a Maori seer. Her uncle and the jTaori community were therefore grea$" incensed wnen she married the ah young Irishman. George Prior Dotmiiy. now one of the riches: sheep ownej in Xew Zealand. On his deathbed, hr-vever. Fie.nta forgave for-gave his niece and.ft her all his vast possessions. t Mrs. Donnelly is the foremost native woman in Xcav Zetland, and when the Prince and Princess of Wales made their ine-rnorabl tour she presented meir royal hiv-fciiesses with the gifts they received frrm the natives. She also acted as cicerone tin oughout the Maoris' territory. Sketch. |