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TE WANANGA.
HE PANUITANGA TENA KIA KITE KOUTOU.
"TIHE MAURI-ORA."
NAMA—10—11. NEPIA. HATAREI, MAEHE 17. 1877. PUKAPUKA 4.
PAERANI ME ANA HOA
Kai hoko i nga mea rino
HE tangata kua oti te RAIHANA kia hoko PU PAURA
hoki.
HEI HOKO.
He Pu NGUTU KOTAHI, he Pu TUPARA, he Pu PURU-
KUMU, me nga tu PAURA e toru He HOTA he TINGARA.
he KARIRI; he KARIRI PU HURIHURI HOKI.
NA PAE RANI ME ANA HOA.
Hehitingi Tiriti.
PANUI MO TE WATI.
Ki te mea ka rokohanga te tangata i te whenua mamao noa.
atu. a ka taapu tana Wati. He mea ako atu tenei kia mohio
ai taua tangata ki te whakahaere ano i tana Wati kia tika ai.
Me titiro te tangata ki te wa e puta mai ai te ra. a e too ai te
ra. kei reira te wa tika mo te taima, mo te Wati : —
NGA UTU MAKETE.
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TANITANA.—Kahore he hoko nui o te witi. Engari,
ko te witi tino pai, e 5 herenei me te 6 kapa. He
mea ano e •5 hereni nae te 7 kapa mo te puhera.
Mo te witi tuarua e 5 herenei, he mea ano e 5 me
te 4 kapa mo te puhera. Mo te oti, e 2 hereni me
te 6 kapa he mea ano e 2 hereni me te 8 kapa i
mo te puhera. Mo te oti pura pura e 2 hereni me
te 4 kapa he mea ano e rua hereni me te 5 kapa ;
mo te puhera. Kahore kaa he paare o Tanitana.
PONEKE.—Mo te paraoa, e £1G mo te rana. Mo te
paraoa o nei motu £19 mo re tana. Mo te oti e 3
hereni me te 3 kapa he mea ano. e 3 hereni e 6
kapa mo te puhera. Mo to papara witi 10 kapa, '
he mea ana 1 hereni mo te puhera. Mo te witi e 5
hereni mo te puhera. Mo te kaanga e 5 hereni
me te 6 kapa mo te puhera. Mo te riwai £4, he
men ano £5 mo Te tuna. Mo te paraoa papapa £7
10 he mea ano £8 mo te tana.
KARAITIHATA.—E iri haere ana te utu mo te witi, a
e kore nga kai hoko witi e hoko i te witi, i te wa e
iti ana te utu iti. A ko te utu mo te witi pai e 4
hereni me te 6 kapa.
E kiia ana. ko nga witi o tenei tau o Karaitihata i
tae ki te kotahi miriona puhera i runga ake i
puhere i nga witi o tera tau.
Mo te oti e 2 hereni, he mea ano he 2 hereni me te
3 kapa mo te puhera. Mo te paare e 3 hereni me te
6 kapa, he mea ano e 3 hereni me te 9 kapa mo te
puhera. Mo te paraoa £15. he mea ano £16 mo te
tana.
E kiia ana ko nga paamu o tera whenua o Karaiti-
hata i ruia ki te kai i tinei rau mo te witi i tae ki te
erua te kau ma rua mano, e wha rau te kau ma
whitu eka (02.417). A e mea ana te whakaaro ko
nga puhera witi e maea mai i aua eka, e tae ki te
rua miriona, e whitu rau, ma whitu mano, e ano
rau. e rua te kau ma rima ( 2,707,625) puhera. A
ko te whenua i ruia ki te oti. E whitu te kau ma
rima mano, o toru rau e rima to kau ma wha eka
(75,354). A e mea ana te whakaaro ko nga
puhera oti e maea mai i aua eka e tai ki te, rua
miriona, kotahi rau ma ono mano, e waru rau
puhera (2,106,800 ). A ko te whenua i ruia ki te
paare. Te kau ma ono mano, e wha te kau ma
whitu eka (16,047) a e ma ana te whakaano. Ko
te Paaere e maea mai e tae ki te rima rau ma rima
mano, e whitu rau ma tahi puhere (505,701). Ko
te whenua i waiho nga taru taru hei Hei. Te kau
ma whiti mano, kotahi rau e rua te kau ma toru
eka (17,123). A e kiia ana e te whakaano ko te
Hei e maea mai i aua eka e tae ki te rua te tua ma
tahi mano, e rua rau tekau ma toru tana (21,213).
Ko te whenua i ngakia ki te riwai i tae ki te toru
mano e wha rau e toru te kau ma wha eka, (3,434)
a e kiia ana e te whakaaro ko nga riwai e maea mai
e rae ki te rua tekau ma rima mano e waru rau, e
waru tekau ma ono tana, (25,886).
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TE WANANGA
AKARANA.—Mo te paraoa o tawahi ana hokona i
Akarana £18 mo te tana. Mo te paraoa o te
waipounamu £17. Mo te paraoa papapa £8 10
mo te tana. Mo te papapa witi £6 mo te tana.
Mo te riwai ,£4 mo to tana. Mo te oti 2 hereni
me te 10 kapa mo te puhera. Mo te kaanga o 4
hereni me te 9 kapa mo te puhera.
He mea atu tenei ki iwi Maori, ko a te ahiahi o te Hatarei.
me te ahiahi o te Mane ano hoki te tu ai te hui waiata a
MATIRI ATARATI I te whare e tata ana ki te whare purei
i Nepia. He pai pu no aua waiata. me te tika o te waiata.
e tino pai ai te Mariri kia rongo i nga waiata a taua wahine
mohio ki te waiata i ngatino waiata a te iwi Pakeha.
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TE WANANGA.
Te Wananga.
Published every Saturday
SATURDAY. MARCH 3, 1877.
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TE WANAGNA.
Mangateretere West, Tautitaha, Mahanga North,
Kaitiriwa, and Raukawa East.
To Mr. T. K. NEWTON, in the matter of Koparakore,
Peka Peka No. 2, Te Wharau, Wharerangi, and
Turamoe Blocks.
To Mr. J. G. KINROSS, in Raukawa East. Peka Peka
No. 2, Raukawa West, and Peka Peka No. 1 Blocks,
also,
To Mr. F. M. CHAPMAN, in the matter of Waikareao
Block.
TE HUI KI TAUPO.
E ki ana te Nupepa a Te Herora. E mea aua a Te Rata
Porena, hei a te 20 o Maehe nei aia ka haere ai ki Taupo,
ki a kite i nga Maori, a e haere ana a Rewi Maniapoto ko
reira. Ko Rewi raua ko Meiha Mea i haere mai i Waikato
ki Taupo, ko Te Rata Porena a haere mai ana ma Taura-
nga, tana ara mai ki Taupo. E kiia ana ko tetahi o nga
tino kupu e korerotia e taua Hui, ko te ara nui mai i
Taupo ki Kemureti kia mahia, kia haerea e te mano, e te
tini. E kiia ana e he ana a Rewi, kia pahure taua rori. {
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The following telegram, dated Taupu, March 12, ap-
peared in the H. B. Herald of the 13th instant:—"The
hon. the Native Minister has announced his intention to
meet the Queen and King natives here, with Rewi Mani-
apoto, on the 20th instant. Rewi and Major Mair come
together from Waikato, and Dr. Pollen will travel via
Tauranga from Auckland. Amongst the important sub-
jects to be brought forward before the Native Minister
will be the opening of the trunk line of road through to
Cambridge, so long successfully opposed by the King
party. Rewi, it is said, still bitterly opposes the opening
of this last link in the communication north and south.''
TE HUI MAORI KI WAITAHA.
E KIIA -ana e te rongo korero mai o Taranaki, ko te
Hui Maori i kiia kia tu ki Waitara, e kore e hui te ;
Maori ki taua hui i tenei tau.
HE KUPU WHAKATUPATO MO NGA IWI
MAORI.
KAU rawa nga tangata o nga iwi Maori, nga tangata
ranei nga wahine ranei, nga taitamariki ranei, e tuhi
tuhi i o ratou ingoa ki te puka puka. Riiri ranei.
Mokete ranei, puka puka noaiho ranei, puka puka
ranei mo te moni e hoatu ana e te Pakeha ki te
Maori. E ngari, ki te mea ka tono te Pakeha kia
tuhituhi te Maori i o ratou ingoa ki te pukapuka, me
haere mai nga Maori ki te Tari a Te Hiana raua ko
te Riihi i Nepia, a ki te marama i a raua te mahi ka
tika ai. He mea hoki kua timata, a he tini nga mea
mo nga Maori ka whakawakia nei e Te Hiana raua
ko te Riihi, ara nga whakawa mo nga Pakeha i mahi
he nei i nga whenua o te Maori, a mo nga moni utu
tan ano hoki mo nga whenua o te Maori. Kaore nei
e homai e te Pakeha ki nga Maori na ratou ana
whenua. He mahi whakawa aua wakawa a Te Hiana
raua ko Te Riihi mo nga whenua ki te takiwa ki
Ahuriri ki Hiretaunga me ona rohe katoa puta noa ki
nga whenua o tenei moana. Ahakoa hoatu he moni
e te Pakeha kia koutou ki te Maori, kia tuhituhi a
o koutou ingoa, kaua koutou e tuhituhi i a
koutou ingoa, kei he nga mahi o nga whenua ka
whakawakia nei.
HE PAKEHA I KOHURUTIA I WAKATO.
No te po o te 20 o Pepurei nei i Kohuruti ai a Te
Mokena He Pakeha, e te Patui. He kai ako kura a
Te Mokena, mo te kura i Te Awamutu i mua, a ko
Te Patui, he Maori no Waikato. He tangata a Te
Mokena i moe i tea whekaehe o te iwi o Rewi ma, a
he pai na Te Mokena ki nga mahi kaewa noa i kore
ai aia e noho tahi i tana wahine. A he mea whakawa
aia, a tukua ana ki te whare herehere i Ngaruawaihia.
No muri iho ka tahae a Te Patui, a tukua ana ano
hoki aia ki taua whare here here ano, a no te po o te
20 o Pepuei i patua ai a Te Mokena e Te Patui.
Ano ka mate te Pakeha, ka puta a Te Patui ki waho
o te whare herehere, a ko te Hoiho a te Pirihimana i
hopukia e Te Patui, eke ana aia ka tahuti. Ano ka
kitea te tupapaku e te kai tiaki o te whare herehere,
he mea ara a To Patui, a mau rawa atu i te Rore.
He mea whakapapa e te pirihimana i te ara i man ai
a Te Patui. No te aonga ake o te ra, he mea kawe a
Te Patu: kia whakawakia e Te Mea, a mea atu ana
a Patui, nana i patu a Te Mokena, he mea patu ki te
patiti. He mea kawe mai a Te Patui ki Akarana, a
kei te whare Herehere i Akarana aia e noho nei.
TE KOOTI WHENUA MAORI KI TAUPO.
E ki ana Te Nupepa a te Nepia Herora, ano ka pau nga
tau e wha e tatari ana nga Maori o Taupo ki te Kooti
Whenua Maori kia tu ki reira, katahi nei ano a te tau nei
ka kiia kia tu he Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori ki reira.
E nui ana te pai a nga Maori o Taupo kia tu ano he Kooti
ki reira, a e whakapai ana ratou ki te Kawanatanga mo
taua Kooti ka tu ano ki reira. He mea hoki na aua Maori
ka tahi pea ka puta atu kia ratou nga moni utu tau o nga
reti o nga whenua, kihai nei i puta kia ratou i nga tau ka
wha nei. Whai hoki kia nohoia nga whenua kua rihitia
nei, ki te Pakeha. Ara kia nohoia nga whenua e te Paka-
ha i rihitia e Te Kawanatanga i te tau 1873.
NATIVE LANDS COURT.
TAUPO, March 11.
After an interval of nearly four years the Native Lands
Court is again to be opened in this district. The Natives
generally are greatly pleased at this action of the Govern-
ment, and hope soon to receive their rentals accruing
during the past three or four years, and to have Euro-
peans settled on the country leased to the Government in
1873.
TE MAHI E TUPU PAI AI TE WITI.
He korero enei na Te Piha, he ako i te iwi kia pai ai te
I maara witi.
i E mea ana a Te Piha. Erua parautanga o aku
whenua, a he mea raka raka e au nga otaota kia riro ke, a ka
tahuna era e au. A e wha inihi me te hawhe o te hohonu
e parautia ai e au i te parautanga tuarua. Ki te mea ka
ahua ngakia te witi i te wa pai mo te witi, penei e kore
te witi e pirau, a he kino ranei i te ua, a ka tino pakari
pai te witi kua rere wawe ki te whenua.
Tetahi pai, kia pai te purapura. E mea ana ahau ko te
witi rere i te mutunga o te Hotoke te witi pai. He mea
hoki e hohoro ana te pakari o te witi o te tau hou. A e
nui ke ake ana te hua o taua witi i te witi pakari mai i te
ngahuru. Whai hoki ko te witi pakari i te tau
hou, e nui ke ake ana nga witi e rui ai ki te
maara, a na reira i kore ai e tupu te taru taru, i te mea
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TE WANANGA.
NGA MAORI O NAHAPORITI I TE TAHA MAI O
HAWAIKI.
HE korero enei Na Te Wata Minita o te Hahi, i korero ai
ki nga Pakeha o Tawahi. E mea ana aia, he nui no te
wera wera, o taua motu nei i ahau raru ai nga mahi ako i
aua iwi Maori. A te tahi he. he tini no nga reo o au
iwi, he moutere ano ko tona reo Maori, he moutere ano ko
tena reo Maori, a he me ano he reo ke ta tenei iwi, ho
I reo ke ta tenei iwi. koia i roa ai te rapurapu a te Pakeha
! ki to aku i ana tini reo kia mohiotia a e aua Pakeha, e tae
ai te tae ki te inuinu ako i aua iwi. A tetahi he, he iwi
tino mau rawa ki a ratou tikanga Maori o mua. Ha
whakapono hoki na ratou ki a ratou atua Maori, a ki nga
kowhatu mahu o mua, a haere ai aua Maori ki aua
kowhatu karakia ai nga karakia tara mo te rangi. He
mea hoki na aua Maori, ma aua Atua tuahue rango ai nga-
mate katoa. Ma aua tuahu e mariri ai ranei, e tutu ai
ranei te hau me te ua. E mea ana aua iwi Maori, na nga
pukapuka Pakeha i pangia ai e te mate, a ko nga puka-
puka e riro ana i te iwi, he mea riri e a ratou tohunga
Maori kia whakahokia ano aua pukapuka ki nga Pakeha.
He iwi aroha aua iwi ki a ratou tamariki, a kahore kať
he tamaiti kotahi, e romia ana e aua iwi, ko nga pouaru
e kiia ana e aua iwi me mate whakamomori te pouaru,
he mea huki ka mate te taane, me mate ano hoki te hoa
wahine. A ko taua tikanga whakamate i nga pouaru kua
he i nga Minita o te Haahi, a kua ahua mutu taua mahi.
He noho a hapu ta aua iwi, a he tini nga mea e whawhai ai
aua hapu kia ratou ano, a he kino te mahi kohuru a aua
iwi ano e etahi o aua iwi. He mea hoki ka riri te tangata
o te tahi iwi ki te tangata o te tahi iwi. Ka noho
whakapapa taua tangata riri i nga taha o te ara, a ka
puta tana hoa e riri ra aia, he mea kohuru eia, koia i mau
tonu ai te mahi he me te noho raru a aua iwi nei kia ratou
ano. E ono tau i noho ai nga Minita o te Hahi i aua
moutere i nga wa o te noho mataati o te Mihanare i reira,
a na te mahi whawhai a aua Maori ano kia ratou i haere
he ai aua Minita o te Hahi. A no te tau 1848 i hoki ai
ano etahi Minita ki reira ano. A ko tetahi o aua Minita i
haere hou atu ki aua iwi, he mea kohuru taua Minita a Te
Korana e aua Maori. Ano ka rongo te teina o taua
Minita i mate ra, he Minita ano hoki taua teina ona, haere
ana hoki aia hei Minita ako ano hoki i aua iwi, a he mea
kohuru ano aia e aua Maori na ratou nei tana tuakana i
mate ai. A no muri i tae atu ai a Te Kopitana i haere ai
ki reira, a kua toru manu nga Maori kua karakia i enei
ra. Na nga Minita ano a ratou whare i hanga, a he mea
mahi ano hoki e ratou nga mea katoa ma ratou, he
mangere no aua iwi Maori. He iwi kore pai ki te ako
kura aua iwi, na te mangere i kore ai e mau tonu te ako.
He iwi e kore e pai aua iwi ki te kakahu, he moro anake
te kakahu mo te aro aro anake. A ko nga tangata o aua
iwi i kakahu i te kakahu Pakeha, he mea tawai ratou e a
ratou hoa, a mahue ana te kakahu i te kahu Pakeha. Nei
ano ona ra e tahuri ai aua iwi nei ki te noho pai, a ki te
ako i nga mea nui o te ao nei.
NATIVES OF THE NEW HEBRIDES.
The Rev. Mr. Watt delivered an interesting address on
the mission to to the New Hebrides in the
Presbyterian Church. Marton. on the 14th ul-
time. The first great difficulty which mis-
sionaries had to contend with, he said, was the climate.
Another was the diversity of the languages spoken there,
every island, and almost every tribe having a different
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language, some of them being as distinct from each
other as French is from English. The natives too, were
very superstitious, and though they have no graven
images their belief in certain stones was so great that
they often have resort to them for changes iu the wea-
ther and any other thing which they stand in need of.
They believed these sacred stones would influence every-
thing on earth and in heaven, and when they pray for a
change of wind or any such thing and their prayers were
not complied with, they attributed cause to some
other person being engaged in praying for wind in an
opposite direction, and would continue their prayers until
the end was attained. Books were regarded by them as
the cause of sickness, and for this reason many of them
who accepted books were compelled to return them
to the Mission Station from which they had been
obtained. As a general rule they were fond of
their children, and infanticide was never known.
except in cases where the child was the result of
immoral practice?. The strangulation of widows
on the death of their husbands was also a custom among
them, but the missionaries had done a great deal to do
away with this, and were instrumental in saying many
lives. They were divided into many tribes, who were at
continual variance with each other, and though their
quarrelling did not always result in open war, it often
occurred that a man belonging to one tribe would
lie in ambush for one of another tribe until he
found an opportunity of killing him, and thus a
great many lives were lost, which kept them in
continual terror of each other. But the Missionaries
had done a great deal towards bringing those people into
the fold of Christ. The first missionaries who had gone
into New Hebrides after six or seven years, were forced
to leave through the hostility of the natives and it was
not until 1848 that another effort was made with greater
success. Amongt the foremost was the Rev. Mr. Inglis,
who as they all knew had been for some time in the
Manawatu district, and soon the natives commenced to
embrace the faith, some because it was fashionable,
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paanga kua whakaaturia mai, a ke te mea marama kia waiho
aua tu mea kia whakaotia e nga ritenga whakawa.
(HOANI PARAIHI)
JOHN BRYCE.
Tumuaki.
Hepetema 26, 1876.
Ko TE KUPU A TE KOMITI MO RUNGA I TE PUKAPUKA-
INOI A TAPA TE WAERO, HE RANGATIRA NO NGARAURU.—
E rua tekau ma whitu nga rarangi o tenei pukapuka-inoi e
whakaaturia ana i roto nga whakahaere me nga mahi a te !
iwi Ngarauru i waenganui o upa tau I865, 1875.
E whakaaturia ana e te kai-inoi nga take o ratou ko tona
hapu ki etahi whenua e tata ana ki te awa o Waitotara, i
tangohia mo te hara o te iwi. e whakaaturia ana hoki nga
tikanga mahi a ratou ko ona hoa.
E ki ana ia ahakoa i uru tahi tona iwi ki a Titokowaru i
te tau 1868, i tana whawhai ki nga Pakeha, he mea whaka-
wehiwehi i uru ai. ai i whakaorangia e ratou etahi Pakeha i
taua wa ; a i murua ta ratou hara whawhai ki a te Kuini i
runga i ta ratou urunga tahitanga ki nga Pakeha, ki te
whawhai ki a Te Kooti.
E ki ana te kai-inoi i nohoia e ia i roto i nga marama kua
pahure tata atu nei tetahi whenua kei Okotuku e tata ana ki
ana mahinga kai o mua a i tu te whakawa mona i roto i te
Hupirimi Kooti ki Whanganui mo taua mahi ana.
I taua wa i ki te Kai-whakarite Whakawa ki a ia kia kaua
ia e pokanoa ki te tango i te Ture ki roto ki ona ringaringa,
a i runga i taua kupu tohutohu kua tuku pukapuka-inoi mai
ia ki te Paremata a e inoi ana ia kia kimihia, rawatia te
tikanga mona.
Kua whakarangona e te Komiti nga korero a te kai-inoi mo
runga i nga kupu o te pukapuka-inoi. kua uiuia hoki a Wi
Parata, a Wi Tako, a Meiha Keepa, a Ta Tanara Makarini, me
Kapene Rei, te Komihana whakahaere o Patea mo nga
Whenua i tangohia mo te hara o te iwi.
Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei atu ki te Whare :—Ki
te mahara a te Komiti me kimi te tikanga mo te kai-inoi kia
kitea ai mehemea e tika ana ranei, e he ana ranei ana kupu
e ki nei kahore tona hapu i whakawhiwhia ki tetahi whenua
i Waitotara hei kainga nohoanga mo ratou. A mehemea ka
kitea kahore ano kia whakaritea ki runga ki tenei hapu to
whakaaro tuatahi o te Kawanatanga kia whakaritea he
whenua e tika ana hei nohoanga mo Ngarauru ki tetahi wahi
tata ki a ratou mahinga o mua e whakaaro ana te Komiti kia i
whakaritea he whenua hei nohoanga mo te hapu o to kai-inoi
mehemea ka taea i runga i aua whakaaro tuatahi.
(HOANI PARAIHI)
JOHN BRYCE.
Tumuaki.
Hepetema 27. 1876.
TE PAREMATA.
WHARE PAREMATA.
TE RUNANGA ARIKI.
PARAIRE, OKETOPA, 28, 1876.
TE KAI WHAKAMAORI.
Ka mea a Ngatata—E mea ana ahau kia korero ahau I
aku kupu, mo te korero i kiia e te Matara mo te mahi
whakamaori a te kai whakamaori o te Kawanatanga mo
te Runanga nei, i kiia ete Matara i te ra i nanahi. He
kupu hoki nana, i mea aia ki ano i ata tika noa te whaka-
maori a te kai whakamaori i nga korero o nga Mema
Maori o te Runanga nei ki te reo Pakeha. A i te wa i
korero ai a te Matara, kihai i ata rangona atu e te kai-
whakamaori nga kupu a te Matara, a ua reira i kore ai e
whakamaoritia aua kupu a te Matara ki aia kia Ngatata e
te kai whakamaori. A tetahi e ahua turi ana nga taringa
a Ngatata i taua mate, na reira tetahi take i kore ai e
rangona atu nga kupu a te Matara. Mei rangona atu nga
kupu a te Matara e te kai whakamaori, penei, a mei rongo
a Ngatata i aua kupu i te wa i kiia ai aua kupu, penei ko
te wa ano tera e utua ai e ia e Ngatata aua kupu a te
Matara. Kua tae mai ki aia kia Ngatata, nga kupu o tona
korero i mahia e nga kai ta perehi, a kahore kau he
kupu whakahe ona o Ngatata ki te tika o ana kupu i
whakamaoritia e te kai whakamaori. He korero tana ta
Ngatata, kia rongo ai te Runanga nei, he mea nana
kahore kau ana kupu whakahe mo te kai whakamaori.
He korero tana Ngatata, kia rongo ai te Runanga nei, he
mea nana kahore kau ana kupu whakahe mo te kai whaka-
maori. Kahore ano aia i kite noa i ana kupu i taia ki te
"Waka Maori." a i whakahe aia ki aua korero. He mea
nana kia mohio nga Mema o te Runanga nei, e tika tonu
ana te mahi whakamaori a te kai whakamaori. Mei he
te mahi whakamaori, penei inana ano ma Ngatata e wha-
aki aua ho ki te Runanga Ariki. He kupu nga kupu a
Ngatata, kia mohio ai te Runanga i nga whakaaro a
Ngatata mo nga kupu a Te Matara.
Ka mea a Te Matara, i aia e ngaro atu ana i te Whare
Runanga i korero a Ngatata i ana kupu mo te mahi wha-
kamaori a te kai whakamaori i nga korero a nga Mema
Maori ki to Runanga. A kihai rawa i ahua tatatata nga
whakaaro a Ngatata. ki nga whakaaro a Te Matara i
whakapuaki ai i te ra i nanahi ki te Runanga nei, mo te
mahi whakamaori a te kai whakamaori. E pouri ana
aia a Te Matara, i te mea he kupu oho rere pea nga kupu
a Ngatata i korero nei. a he mea ako pea aia i korero ai i
aua kupu. E mohio ana aia a Te Matara ki nga kupu a
Ngatata, a he mea ui ano hoki eia ki nga Pakeha mohio
ki te reo Maori, a i korero ano aua Pakeha reo Maori i a
ratou kupu i mahara ai, o nga kupu i kiia e Ngatata. E
mea ana a Ngatata, kahore kau ana kupu whakahe, mo te
tu whakamaori a te kai whakamaori i ana korero i a
Ngatata i korero ai ki te Runanga nei. Heoi ra me penei
he kupu mana ma Te Matara. Kahare i tika te mahi a
Ngatata, no te mea. he tini nga ra ena o Ngatata i amu
amu ai kia Te Matara, a i mea a Ngatata, kahore i tika te
whakamaoritanga o nga korero o nga Mema Maori ki Te
Runanga. A a kore aia e mea e he ana ranei te tuhi-
tuhinga o nga kupu i taia ki te pukapuka o Te Paremata,
i te mea hoki, he mea tuhituhi aua korero i te wa i kiia
ai aua korero e te kai whakamaori. Heoi ra, me penei
he kupu mana ma Te Matara, i te wa i rongo ai aia i nga
korero a nga Mema Maori i mohio aia ki te tikanga o aua
korero a aua Mema Maori, tena koa, i te wa i whakapa-
kehatia ai aua korero o aua Mema Maori o te kai whaka-
maori, kihai i tatata te ritenga o ta te kai whakamaori i
whakamaori ai ki a te Mema Maori i korero ai. A e mea
atu ana aia ki etahi ano o nga Mema reo Maori o te Runa-
nga nei. ia nei he pono aku kupu e ki nei. A tenei ano
hoki tenei kupu aku. Ki te mea e kore e rapua
totahi take e tino marama ai, a e tino tuturu ai
nga kupu Maori a nga Mema Maori e korero ai te
mahi marama e te kai whakamaori, nga kupu Maori e
kiia ana e aua Mema Maori, whai hoki, kia tino marama
ano te whakamaori nga kupu Pakeha a nga Mema
Pakeha, kia mohio ai nga Mema Pakeha ki o
nga Mema Pakeha kupu, penei hei nga ra e
haere ake nei, kaua e kiia he kai whakamaori mo
te Runanga nei. He mea hoki mo to timatanga mai ra
ano o nga ra i tu ai nga Mema Maori ki tenei Runanga., i
kore ai e tino tika te mahi whakamaori o te kai whaka-
maori o te Runanga nei. A na taua kai whakamaori ano
aia i ki. he mohio aia ki te mahi whakamaori. A kahore
ano hoki, he mohio ke ake o tau kai whakamaori i enei
ra i tana mohio o nga ra ona i timata ai tana mahi
whakamaori ki te Runanga nei. E kore aia a Te Matara
korero i ana tikanga nei i nanahi, mei kore nga take o te
korero k Te Runanga nei i hangi ki tana tu korero e korero
whakaka nei aia ki te kai whakamaori. A he mea ano
hoki, ki te mea ka korero re Runanga nei i te tika ranei i te
ho ranei o te mahi whakamaori, a te kai whakamaori, i
nga korero Maori o te Runanga nei, e kore aia a Te
Matara e hopehope. Ka tino korero aia i aua mahara o
mohio ai ki te tika ki te he o te mahi whakamaori a taua
kai whakamaori. E mea ana aia, kahore i tika, a e kore e
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Ka mea a Kapene Pereiha. e kore pea te Runanga nei e
he kia korero hoki ahau i aka kupu. He Mema aia no te
Komiti rapurapu i nga mea e amuamua ana e te iwi, a i
nga marama kua pahure nei, kua mea tana mohio, e hara
te kai whakamaori o te Runanga nei i te tangata mohio
ki te whakapakeha i nga korero o nga Mema Maori o te
Runanga nei. E kore aia e mea, e mohio ana ranei taua
kai whakamaori ki te reo Maori, otiia, ki tana mohio.
kahore he mohio o taua kai whakamaori ki te reo Pakeha.
He he, he potatu, he ngoikore no nga kupu o taua kai
whakamaori, aia a Te Pereiha i mea ai, kahore he mohio
e taua kai whakamaori, e tika ai aia kia tu tona hei kai
whakamaori mo taua Runanga.
TE PIKA MO NGA WHENUA RAHUI MO NGA
MAORI.
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OKETOPA 28, 1877.
Ka mea a Te Witika me korero taua Pira nei. A i mea
aia na te Runanga Ariki taua Pira i tuku mai ki te Pare-
mata nei. He Pira taua Pira mo etahi o nga whenua i
rahui ma nga Maori i tena pito o te Waipounamu. He
mea hoki, ko aua whenua, he mea rihi i mua, a i kiia e te
rihi, kia pau nga tau o taua rihi, ka rihi atu ano nga Pakeha
ia ratou te rihi mo etahi atu tau ano. A ki te mea :
e kore e whakaaetia taua pira nei, e kore e taea
te rihi hou atu ano ki aua Pakeha. He Pira taua
pira nei i mahia e te Minita Maori. A e whakaae ana ano
peo. nga Maori ki taua pira, koia aia a Te Witika i mea ai
me korero ano tau pira nei kia tu ai hei Ture.
Ka mea a Taiaroa. He kupu ano ana mo taua Pira.
E he ana aia ki taua Pira no te mea ka tahi nei ano ka I
tukua mai ki te Paremata nei. He tino tikanga
to taua Pira, no te mea, e mahi ana tau pira i nga
whenua Maori. Kua tae tuai te pira a nga Maori o Kerei
Mauta, he whakahe na aua Maori, i te pira nei. A he nui
te amu amu o aua Maori mo te mahi a Te Komihana i nga
whenua rahui mo nga Maori. E mea ana aia a Taiaroa
kia kaua te Paremata nei e whakaae ki te pira nei, i te
mea heki i puta ohorere mai taua pira nei ki te Paremata,
E mea ana aia. ma te Kawanatanga e mea kia waiho taua
pira nei, a hei te tunga o te Paremata a te tau e haere ake
nei ka mahi ai. A me whakamaori taua pira ki te reo
Maori, kia kitea ai o nga iwi Maori. He tino mahi ta
taua pira nei i nga whenua a nga Mauri, e hara te mahi o
taua pira nei i te mahi mo nga whenua rahui a te Maori
anake, otiia he mahi ta taua pira i nga whenua a nga
Maori katoa, katoa. E kore te Maori e pai kia ae a ratou
whenua, a e kore te Maori e pai kia kiia taua pira nei hei
Ture mo enei ra. E kore aia e pai ki te kupu e kiia nei. kia
whakakahoretia te kupu o te Ture imea nei kia tu he Maori
hei komihana, mahi i nga whenua rahui a nga Maori. No
te mea ko nga whenua rahui i kiia mo te Maori, na te
Maori pu. ake ano aua whenua, a koia aia i mea ai, ma te
Maori rawa ano te mahi tiaki i aua rahui, a ma te Maori e
titiro e mahi nga tikanga o te Pakeha e mea ai ki aua
whenua rahui. K ki aua to pira nei, kia retia aua rahui, a
kia ono to kau tau o retia ai aua whenua rahui
a aua Maori. E he aua aia ki te ono te kau
tau, he tino roa rawa te ono te kau tau. E kore aua tau e
taea, a e mea ana aia, he tuku rawa aua tau kia riro te
whenua i te Pakeha. A koia ra pea te tikanga a nga kai
mahi o tau pira, a he tango aua tau i te whenua kia riro.
Ki te mea ka tohe te Kawanatanga kia tu taua pira nei
hei Ture, ka tino whakahe te Maori. E pai ano te Maori
kia mahia he pira, otiia kau i te pira, otiia kaua i te pira
penei, engari me ata mahi marire he pira, kaua e penei
tia te kaikatia me tenei pira. Tena pea o ki te Paremata
nei, ki te mea ka kiia taua pira nei hei Ture, ka paingia e
te Maori, e kore te Maori e pai ki taua pira katoa nei. E
mahara tonu te Maori, ki te tangata e ki nei, ma te Maori
ano e mahi ana whenua rahui. Me waiho te pira nei, no
te mea. ki ano i tata noa nga tau o te rihi o nga whenua
rahui i Kerei Mauta, te kau tau e haere ake nei, ka mutu
ai te rihi. A kia mutu te mahi o te Paremata nei, me
mahi e Te Kawanatanga kia mohiotia ai te whakaae a
aua Maori. Koia ko Taiaroa te Mema Maori mo Te
Waipounamu, a e tae katoa mai ana nga Pitihana me nga
kupu whakahe ki nga mahi a nga Komihana a nga Maori
ki aia. I huihui ano nga Maori i napo, a i tino he taua
pira nei ia ratou. A koia nei nga take i whakahe ai aua
Maori. He wakahe na ratou ki te kupu e kiia nei, kia
whakakahoretia nga Komihana Maori hei mahi mo aua
whenua rahui. A e he ana ano hoki ia ratou nga tau e
e retia ai aua whenua. A e he aua in ratou te mea, ma
nga Komihana Pakeha anake e mahi aua whenua. A i
mea aua Maori me whakamaori taua pira nei ki te reo
Maori, hei titiro ma nga Maori katoa o Aotearoa o te Wai-
pounamu, koia nei nga ingoa o etahi o aua Maori i huihui
nei inapo, ko Meiha Keepa o Whanganui. Ko Hone Topi
o te Waipounamu, ko Hone Huri o Wairarapa. Koia na
te ingoa o nga tino tangata o taua hui, a he tokomaha
nga hoa o aua rangatira Maori. E hara ta ratou whakahe,
i te tino whakahe rawa atu mo taua pira, engari he mea
na ratou, taihoa e mahi tau a pira, kiatu ano te Paremata
kamahi ai. E mea ana aia, me whakaae te Kawanatanga
ki te kupu a aua Maori, a me waiho noaiho taua pira,
taihoa e mahi.
Ka mea te Tumuaki o Te Runanga Ariki, kua rongo aia,
ki ano i whakamaoritia te pira nei ki te reo Maori, a ki
ano i tukua kia kite nga iwi Maori i taua pira, koia aia Te
Tumuaki i mea ai, me kore te mahi mo taua pira. A e
mea aua aia. ki te mea ka mahia te pira nei hei Ture i te
tunga o tenei Paremata, e kore e tika. Me waiho te pira
nei, taihoa e mahi, kia tu te Paremata mo te tau 1877.
Ka mea a Te Pawhe. E mea aia, kua kite nga iwi
Maori i te pira nei. no te mea hoki kua kite aia i taua pira
kua taia ki te reo Maori. E kore aia e mea he tino pira
pai rawa taua pira. A no te mea kua taia taua pira ki te
reo Maori, me mahi taua pira.
Ka mea a Hone Ngahe. Kua mahia nga kupu o taua
pira ki te reo Maori, i te wa ki ano i kawea taua pira ki te
Runanga Ariki.
Ka mea Te Tumuaki. Ki te mea e tika ana nga kupu
a Hone Nahe, e kore pea e pai kia waiho noaiho taua pira.
Ka mea a Te Roretana. e kore e pai kia mahia hikakatia
te pira nei. i te mea hoki e kore nga Maori e pai ki nga
tikanga e mahia ai taua pira. E pai ana aia ki taua pira.
E mea ana aia. e kore e tika te mahi a te Maori ana mahia
e ratou nga whenua i te Taone i Kerei Mauta, ki o te
Maori ahua mahi, a kia kaua te Maori e mahara-
hara ki o to Pakeha tu mahi mo te whenua
pera. E mohio ana aia ki nga mahi i mahia mo aua
whenua i mua. a ko te mahi me aro tahi nga tikanga ki o
te Maori e pai ai. mo o te Paheha e pai ai ano hoki.
Kahore he whenua i penei te mahi pai, me te mahi i
mahia mo aua whenua i Kerei Mauta. He pai no te mahi
e puta ai he moni ki te Maori, a e pai ai te Pakeha kia
nohoia e ratou aua whenua. He nui tana titiro rapurapu
tikanga mo nga, whenua rahui mo nga Maori i nga.
Motu nei, a e pai ana kia ahua tupato te Maori ki aua
whenua rahui. Otiia e mea ana aia, kahore kau
he take e tupato ai te Maori ki te pira nei.
A e kore e tika kia mahia te pira nei i tenei tunga
o te Paremata. E mea aua aia. me mahi he
tikanga mo aua whenua rahui, kia pai ai nga Maori,
a kia pai ai ano hoki nga Pakeha, a ko aua tikanga me
korero ano ki te Paremata nei a te tau e haere ake nei.
E tika ara te kupu a Taiaroa e mea, kia kaua rawa e mahia
he tikanga mo ana whenua rahui i Kerei Mauta, kia
whakaae ra ano nga Maori, ka mahia ai aua whenua rahui,
a ka pai rawa ano kia u a Taiaroa ki aua kupu. A koia
nei te kupu ako ki nga Maori, kia kaua te Maori, e rua i te
kupu nei, he kupu ako taua kupu na te tokomaha, a koia
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TE WANANGA.
nei te kupu e he nei i aia ia Te Roretana." He aha te take
i kore ai e tika kia mahia e nga Maori nga whenua rahui,
ki a te Maori tikanga e pai ai "' He kupu aua kupu na nga
Pakeha na ratou nei tenei kupu ano hoki " Kia kotahi :
Ture mo te Maori me te Pakeha '" He mea hoki na aua
Pakeha, kia rironi aua Pakeha te tikanga o aua whenua
rahui, a e tino riro rawa ai ano hoki te mana o aua whe-
nua ia ratou. E mea atu ana aia a Te Roretana ki nga
Maori, kia tupato ki te ako pera a te Pakeha. E pai ana
aia ki te taha Maori, a e mea ana aia kia mahia nga whe-
nua Maori ki nga tikanga e puta pai ai he moni mo aua
whenua ana rihitia ki nga Maori. E rua tikanga o nga i
whenua rahui. Ko tetahi he mea pai ma te Maori anake i
te tikanga ki era. A ko nga whenua rahui a te Maori, i
roto i nga whenua Taone, ma te Pakeha e mahi era e pai
ai. He tini no nga Pakeha, he ou ou no nga Maori, a ki
te mea ka tohe nga Maori, ka hoha te Pakeha, a e kore e
puta he moni nui hei utu reti mo aua whenua. Koia aia i
mea ai, me mutu te korero mo taua Pira. Otiia ki te mea
ka mahia taua Pira, e pai ana, me waiho katoa ona tikanga
o taua Pira kia mau tonu.
Ka mea a Te Kereti. Mei tukua wawetia ma; pea te
Pira nei ki te Paremata penei kaa tino pai. A te take he
mate no Te Makarini raua ko Te Rata Porena. E mea aia
kia mahia he Pira penei, kia mahia ai nga whenua rahui o
Kerei Mauta, a ko te Pira nei, mo te Maori anake ona
tikanga, kahore mo te taha Pakeha. A me korero eia nga
tikanga i rihitia ai nga whenua rahui i Kerei Mauta. He
mea mahi aua rihi e Te Kawanatanga i riro ai i te Pakeha.
na reira aua Pakeha i mea ai, na Te Kawanatanga aua
rihi kia ratou, i kore ai ratou e tino mea kia ata marama
rawa nga tikanga o aua rihi. Ko aua rihi, he rihi mo nga
tau e rua tekau ma tahi, a i kiia kia rihitia ano hoki aua
whenua ki aua Pakeha ra ano ana pahure ana tau erua te
kau ma tahi. A i tino whakaaetia te kupu kia riro ano
aua i Pakeha, a ko to utu rihi me ata mahi marire era.
A koia nei te tikanga o nga kupu a Areka Make, mo aua
whenua. E mea ana aia, me rihi ano aua whenua ki nga
Pakeha na ratou i mahi matatai aua whenua rahui, a e
kore e tika kia kiia nga utu tau kia nui ake, no te mea ko .
te tikrnga o nga whenua kua pai nei te mahi e aua Pake-
ha, i pai aua whenua i te mahinga e aua Pakeha, a me
riro ano aua whenua ia ratou, i te mea hoki kua tino kiia
te kupu ki a riro ano aua whenua i aua Pakeha. A ki te
moa ka mahia aua whenua e nga Maori ano, ka rereke nga
tikanga i te kupu i kiia nei, a i kaha ai te mahi a aua
Pakeha i aua whenua, ara kia riihitia ano aua whenua ki
aua Pakeha ra ano. A e ki ana aia a Te Keneti, ko nga
mea a nga Pakeha kua tu ki aua whenua rahui i Kerei
Mauta, kua tae ki te kotahi mano, a ko te utu o aua mea
e kiia ana. Erua rau mano moni (200,000) te utu mo aua
mea. A e toru ano tekau ma rima nga Maori na ratou
aua whenua. A kaua e mahia ko te taha Maori anake,
me mahara te mahara, ki te taha Pakeha ano hoki. He
mea hoki ko te ono te kau tau e tonoa nei, he Ture iho
ano na te Pakeha, mo te whenua, rihi i nga Taone. E mea
ana hoki aia a Te Keneti, mei mahia e te Pakeha aua
whenua ki nga Maori i nga ra o te korero timatanga o
nga rihi mo aua whenua, penei kua tino pu atu te ai, na
tikanga a aua Mauri ki aua Pakeha. E mea ana aia tai-
hoa e mahi te Pirn nei, hei a tera tunga o te Paremata.
Ka mea a Te Witika. E ahua whakaae ana aia ki o
tahi o nga kupu a Te Keneti. E kore aia e tino mea ki
nga kupu a Te Tumuaki, whai hoki ki nga kupu a Taiaroa
otiia ko tana kupu ka ki nei. he mea i ana ko te Pira hou
nei, e takahi ana i nga kupu o te Ture kua tu noa atu. K
whakaae ana te Kawanatanga kia mahia ano he Pira mo
aua whenua rahui nei, a hei a tera tunga o te Paremata
ka mahia ai taua Pira e ki nei, a ma te Paremata e ae
ranei, te kahore ranei mo tana Pira e korero nei. A ka
mahia ano hoki i te Pira hou nga mea hei pai ma nga
Maori, me nga Pakeha ano hoki. Koia aia i mua ai me
mutu te korero mo te Pira e korerotia nei.
A mutu ana te korero mo taua Pira.
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Council, he should throw all other considerations aside,
and state distinctly what his opinion was on the matter.
His opinion was. that the interpretations were not, and
never had been satisfactory.
The Hon. Captain Fraser said the Council would per-
haps allow him to make a few remarks on the
As a member of the Public Petitions Committee
been apparent to him for many months past that the In-
terpreter was not a fit and proper person to translate the
speeches of the Maori members. He did not know
whether that understood Maori, but he was con-
vinced that he did not understand English. The meagre
and bald language in which the Maori speeches and evi-
dence were translated had made it evident to him for a
long time that that officer was not competent to be inter-
preter to the Council.
The Council adjourned at midnight.
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been dealt with in the interests of the natives.
and, at the same time, in the interests of the Europeans.
He did not hesitate to say that there was no Native pro-
party that had been so well administered, and so beneficial
to the Natiives, as this property at Greymouth. Never-
thelest, he quite recognised that this Bill was a very
beneficial measure, as tending to inake those reserves
popular in the eyes of the Europeans, and, at the same
time, productive of larger rentals to the Natives.
He had watched the course of these Native reserves
in the colony very much, and he quite admitted
that the Natives had just cause to view with great
jealousy any legislation that took place with regard to
them. He believed that, in this particular instance, the
Natives had no reason to fear the Bill ; but the session
was so far advanced that it could not have that consider-
ation that would commend it generally to the Natives,
and the House would make a great mistake, under those
circumstances, in going on with it. He would like, fur-
ther, to see certain disabilities removed from dealing with
these reserves, which at present pressed hardly upon the
Europeans in Greymouth, and which rendered the pro-
perty less profitable than it might be to the Native Trust.
He thought that, during the recess, with the consent of
the Natives,—and, under the provisions of the Act, he
might say that those reserves could not be dealt with
without the consent of the Natives:—the Native Commis-
sioner might make with the Government such provisions
with regard to the future as would meet the views of the
Natives and also of the Europeans, and they might then
come down to the House for confirmation. He quite
agreed with the Maori member for the Middle Island that
there should be no dealing with those reserves without
the consent of the Natives themselves, and he hoped they
would stick to that. He would give one word of warning
that he had given before in the House to the Natives—
namely, to mistrust anything like the common phrase that
was used with regard to the Natives, " Why should you
not deal with those reserves just as you like yourselves ?"
That was very often the phrase used by Europeans who
wished to get, through the medium of the cry of " One
law for the Natives, and for the Europeans," control over
those reserves, which would ultimately end in the Natives
losing their beneficial interest in them. He warned them
to beware of that. At the same he felt that, in the
interests of the Natives generally, it was very desirable
that considerable powers, properly limited, should be
given to utilize those trusts to the utmost. There were
two classes of reserves, one of which he thought should
not be dealt with otherwise than the Natives wished
themselves ; but these town reserves, if honestly dealt
with by the Government, with a certain check with regard
to the consent of the Natives as to dealing with them,
would be much better managed by European trusts than
by Native trusts. The Natives might depend upon it that
if in a large European community, where they were in
such a small minority, they determined and insisted upon
dealing with the lands in a way that would injure the
European population, it would ultimately end in damage
to their own interests. Under all the circumstances, he
thought it would be a mistake to go on with this Bill.
If the Bill was gone on with, he trusted that the Bill,
which had been carefully prepared, and he believed was a
good one, would be stuck to as it stood.
Mr. Kennedy regretted exceedingly that this Bill had
not been before the House at an earlier period. That it
was not, was owing, he believed, to the illness of the
Native Minister and of the Hon. Dr. Pollen. Early in the
session he asked that a Bill of this nature should be intro-
duced, so as to deal with those reserves in Westland, and
a promise was then given that some action of this nature
would be taken. The Bill that was now before the House
was certainly, as far as he could see, more in the interests
of the Native race than of the European settlers. He
would call particular attention to the circumstances under
which the Greymouth Reserve had been settled upon.
The leases in this instance had not been taken from the
Native's. This property had been altogether managed by
the Crown, and consequently the tenants, in accepting
leases from the Crown, were not so particular with regard
to the conditions as they would be if dealing with the
Native race themselves. The term of those leases was
twenty-one years, and a promise was given that no diffi-
culty would be thrown in the way of renewing those
leases. There was an absolute promise to the Europeans
that those leases would be renewed from time to time,
subject to an equitable adjustment of rent. This feature
would appear from the following statement put forth by
Mr. Alexander Mackay, the agent for this reserve :—
" In justice to the original tenants on other Native
reserves ia Westland, as pioneers of settlement, or to the
persons who have since purchased their interests, a
renewal of the leases should be granted them at a rate of
rental consistent with fairnes, irrespective of improve-
ments. The property being indebted for its improvement
entirely to their capital, it follows, therefore, that the
law by which the ownership of improvements follows the
ownership of land would, in this instance, be in the
highest degree unjust and inapplicable.
•• In the case of these reserves, the tenants have im-
proved the property on the full reliance of getting an
extension of lease at the expiration of the subsisting term,
the understanding being that,as the intention is to encourage
the occupation of these lands in perpetuity with a view to
secure a fair pecuniary return for the benefit of the per-
sons beneficially concerned, there would be no difficulty
in obtaining a renewal ; yet on a change of management,
without a definite arrangement is made with them to that
effect, the land in all probability would be re-assessed,
when the best properties would have the rents raised, the
land in fact being worth more in consequence of the
tenants' improvements.
" It will be easily understood, therefore, that the Act of
1873 caused considerable uneasiness to the tenants at
Greymouth as to how the Board of Management would
deal with the question of extended leases, as it was well
known that the natives to be elected for the position must
be chosen from the persons who had openly stated their
intention to take possession of the property at the termi-
nation of the existing leases.
" It was looked on by the tenants as a grave injustice,
and to a certain extent as a breach of faith with them,
after having been led to suppose from the first that the
estate would always he administered by the Government,
that the Act permitted the handing over of large and im-
portant interests to the mercy of two or three inexpe-
rienced Natives, who had no knowledge of the laws of
property, and who were unable to appreciate equity."
There were upwards of a thousand properties erected
upon this Native reserve, and the value of the improve-
ments exceeded £200,000. He noticed that Mr. Mackay
said the value of the properties was £40,000 ; but that
was only the annual value. The number of Natives bene-
ficially interested in the reserve did not, he believe, ex-
ceed thirty-five. In any measure introduced for the
i purpose of dealing with this reserve. he hoped that the
European interests would not be overlooked. If they
asked that power should bo given to extend the leases for
a term of sixty years, they would only be asking that
: which prevailed in almost every other town in the colony.
I If, at the commencement of settlement at Greymouth,
these reserves were in the hands of the Natives them-
selves, he was quite satisfied the Europeans would have
made terms much better than they could now make by
any legislation brought before the House, He would put
it to honorable members if in the cities of Auckland
Christchurch, and Dunedin, the whole settlement was
built ou Native lands, and if the leases had been obtained
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from the Crown on the understanding that those leases
would be renewed from time to time, they would consider
it fair or equitable that the right of renewing those leases
should be transferred to the Natives, more particularly
when the Natives themselves had shewn a disposition to
get possession of this reserve, with the vowed intention
of having the fullest valuation for the improvements* at
the end of the term. This had been shewn by a petition
to the House and to the other Chamber. These petitions
went before Committees, and reports had been laid before
the House, from which it would be seen that the Natives
had no reason to complain whatever. With regard to the
Act of 1873, which had not been called into operation, he
might say that the principal reason why it was not
brought into operation was that the European proprietors
in Greymouth saw that if it was brought into operation
their interests would be materially prejudiced, and they
petitioned that the Act should be allowed to remain in
abeyance. The principal reason for that was that it was
perfectly evident that, if the tenants had to rely upon a
Native Board for the renewal of their leases, their posi-
tion would be materially altered. He made these remarks
in the hope that they might have some influence upon
any Bill dealing with the question which might be intro-
duced next session, because he saw it was too late now to
press this Bill upon the attention of the House.
Mr. Whitaker said he agreed with a great deal that had
been said by the honorable member for Avon. He did
not intend to press the Bill, in deference to the opinion
expressed by Mr. Speaker, and also having regard to the
opinion of the Native member for the Middle Island that
it was desirable to let the Bill stand over. Another
reason, he thought, was that this Bill was amending
another Act, which had not been brought into operation.
Instead of amending the latter Act in that way, he
thought it desirable to introduce the whole of the provi-
sions in one Bill. He would undertake, on the part of the
Government, that a Bill would be brought in next session
in which due care would be taken to see that the interests
of the Natives were protected, and also that the interests
of the Europeans should be considered. He would move,
that the Order of the day be discharged.
Bill discharged.
RETA I TUKUA MAI.
————:o:————
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA.
E hoa tena koe, koutou ko hoa, whakahaere i to tatou
WANANGA. Ma te manaki o to tatou Ariki koutou e tiaki i
runga i to koutou pono, kaati te mihi kia koutou.
E hoa, he kupu tono naaku kia koe. me whakaatu mai e koe
te utu o to tatou WANANGA i te wiki, i te marama, i te tau
ranei, kia mohio ai ahau ki to tatou WANANGA. Tukua mai
e koe i te WANANGA to reta kia au, kaati tena.
E hoa tukua mai ano e koe te WANANGA panui o nga Ture
i tukua atu na e au kia utaina mai e koe ki te WANANGA, me
tuku mai ano o koe tetahi ki au. Kia ora tonu koutou ko
hoa. kaati aku kupu kia koe. na to hoa.
NA HOHAI TARAKAWA.
Maketu.
Ko te utu mu TE WANANGA mo te tau, £1 2s, 6d.
ETITA WANANGA.
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA.
E hoa tenei matou ka kite iho i nga korero o TE WANANGA
2S o Tihema 1876. I o kupu whakahoki mo te Poroporoaki a.
Ta Tanara Makarini. Taku kupu ra, ka pai ano kia penei to
whakahoki i taua panui, otira, e pai ana ki etahi te kupu o
taua panui ki nga taringa kuare, ki nga tangata mohio, kanui
te kino rawa atu i nga kino katoa. Koia au i mea ai kia pai
to mau i te hoe o to tatou poti, koi rara, ka tahuri, ka mate
tatou. E hoa, ta maua na tikanga ta te Maori, ka rangona,
ara, te tangata pai ki te mau tia poti, ki te rere i roto o te
hau-marangai, ka rekareka nga kumu o runga, me nga Pahihi,
kaore e tata mai te wehiwehi raua ko te mataku, koia Uku
kupu i mea atu ai ki a koe, kia whakamutua tenei tu mahi a
te tawai kia koutou Pakeha. No te mea he Maori te Maori,
he Pakeha te Pakeha, hinga atu he Pakeha, tu mai he Pakeha,
ko tana Ture tahi. Ko te moni anake te mea hei whakamana
i aua mea. Ko te Pihopa he rui i nga kupa * Te Atua, ko te
moni ano tona kaha. Waihoki, ko tou kaha ki te tawai ki
aua tangata, kia hinga ko te moni ano, kia riro te mahi mau,
ka mahi ano koe i taua mahi tahi, a te hoko whenua, ina hoki
ra, me mea anake ko nga Ture a Te Atua, kia Mohi nei, ka
tika tena, ko te Paremata e hanga Ture nei hei whakamate,
hei whakaora mo te Maori, kaore e tika ki taku mohio. Koia
taku kupu pouri i mea ai ki a koe, kia mutu tenei tu mahi, DO
te mea pai rawa nga korero o te hui ki Pakowhai, kaore he
kupu tawai o taua hui. No te timatanga mai o te Paremata
o te tau ka hori nei i rongo kino ai ki nga korere o to tatou
WANANGA, a mutu noa tenei tau. Kaati, ko tenei, kua huri
katoa nga tangata o TE WANANGA o Ngatiporou nei ki te
whakaara i Te " Waka " kia ara ki runga he pai hoki no te
kai mau o te hoe o Te " Waka Maori." Kaati, kei te karanga-
ranga ano matou nga tangata i hoki mai i te hui i Pakowhai
kia whangaia te kai hoe o to tatou WANANGA, na te nui o
nga kapu tawai, ara, puta ke i a te Ture, koia i huri katoa ai
ki Te " Waka." Ka huri.
NA EPINIHA WHAIAAHO
Tikapa o Waiapu.
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA.
E hoa, e kore pea koe e pai kia utaina atu e koe te reta ne
ki roto i to WANANGA, he ahakoa mau e kino, e pai ana. mau
e whiu, e pai ana, mau e tuku, e pai ana. E hoa, e Hone
Hiana, kua kite matou te Tai ki Raro nei i a korua kupu ko
Karaitiana, whakahe mo nga Ateha Maori o te Motu nei, ki
taku whakaaro na aua Ateha Maori i puta ai he pai ki nga
takiwa Maori, he kaha aua Ateha Maori ki te puru i nga
raruraru o tona Takiwa. E hara i te mea i whakaturia ko nga
tutua hei Ateha, e kore ai e rongo i te kupu a o ratou Ateha,
kao, ko aua Ateha he mea whiriwhiri anake ki nga rangatira
anake, ko ia iwi, me tona rangatira, ko ia iwi me tona
rangatira. Ko aua rangatira ano i whaketuria nei hei Ateha,
he aha te moumou o te moni e kiia ai, e moumou ana te moni
ma aua Ateha. E hoa, mehemea i waiho ma nga kai whaka-
wa Pakeha anake, penei kihai i mutu te raruraru o nga takiwa
Maori, i mahara au kua mutu i aua tangata te taua wahine
te kanga, te whakanui i nga pouaru te tahae, te pakanga
whenua, ko aua tangata te kai whiriwhiri, te kai peehi hoki
ki raro i te Ture. E hoa, e Karaitiana, kei whea ana ena
tangata mohio e ki nei koe kia turakina enei kai whakawa e
tu nei, kia watea he tunga mo etahi ata kai whakawa, he
tangata ware anake enei e tu nei, kua huri pea koe i to noho-
anga i te Paremata i tahurihuri kau koe i te kore kupu hei
hamumutanga mau ki te Paremata, i hori koe i tango ai i te
nohoanga o Tareha, e puta hoki tetehi mohiotanga mou, he
whakakore koia tau i ta ratou mahi, kia watea he tanga mou,
ki taku whakaaro kihai tetehi wahi o tou whenua o Heretau-
nga i riro mai i a koe i to nohoanga ki te Paremata. E hoa
kia mohio koe, e kore tetehi iwi e moe hewa ki te whakatu i
te tutu» hei kai whakawa mo tona iwi, engari mei ki koe,
whakakore a aua tangata, me waiho ko Taiaroa hei Ateha mo
nga Motu e rua nei, na, e tama ka Pooti pe» ahau kia Taiaroa.
Heoi ano, e ho» kei pouri koe, he ahakoa e kino ana ki te
aroaro o Taiaroa. Na to hoa,
NA KIO TE PEHIPEHI.
Maniapoto Pa.
KI TE ETITA O TE WANANGA.
E hoa, utaina atu e koe tenei kupu ki runga kia te
WANANGA. E aku hoa e noho nei i tenei Motu i Te Wai-
pounamu, i te Motu heki o Aotearoa. Titiro o koutou
kanohi ki nga mahi o te Paremata o te Kawanatanga, e
kimi na, e rapu na i te he mo nga Motu e rua, ka ono
tunga o nga Paremata, kahore ano tetahi paku iti kia
puta mai, hei oranga mo te iwi Maori. Ko te take o te
he i kore ai e puta tetahi oranga mo te iwi Maori, kai a
Te Makarini te he o nga Motu e rua i roto i te tunga o
tenei Paremata, i kiia e nga Mema i roto i tenei Paremata
kia taia ki te reo Maori, me te reo Pakeha, te Ture hou
Ta Tanara Makarini, kia mohio ai nga iwi katoa ki taua
Ture mo nga whenua e takoto nei, kia mohio ai koutou,
be Ture huna whenua, tahae whenua aua Ture. Ko wai
te tangata e whakarongo, i kimi nga Mema Maori e noho
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TE WANANGA.
nei i te Paremata, a Hori Kerei, a Taiaroa i te take o te
Hoko a Wairawake, a Haimona, a Matara, a Te Hamutini,
a Te Keepa i nga rohe e takoto ana ki tetahi taha, ki
tetahi taha, ko waenganui o aua rohe kihai i riro i roto i
aua Hokonga, i takoto toitu tonu te whenua i waenganui,
ko tetahi taha, me tetahi taha i riro tena i te Hoko a nga
Pakeha e mau nei o ratou ingoa i runga ake nei. Ka
kona nga kupu whakaari a nga kai tuku whenua, kei aua
wahi i Hokona ai e ratou. Ko ta ratou kupu tenei, a te
wa e roherohe ai te whenua, kua oti nei te utu, rae hoatu
ki nga Maori kia kotahi eka i roto i te tekau eka, kotahi,
kia tekau eka i roto i te rau eka. Ko enei kupu, kihai
ano i rite, koia a Hori Kerei, a Taiaroa i uru ai ki te
Paremata, ki te kimi i aua ritenga, a kihai i whakaaetia.
Koia tenei, ko Te Makarini kai te huri i nga kupu e tika
ana i runga i nga kupu a nga kai Hoko, kai te marama
tona a ratou kupu inaianei, ko to tua-whenua o Te Wai-
pounamu, kai te uaua tonu nga, tangata Maori inaianei,
kia riro ano i a ratou. He kupu whakamutunga tenei ki
oku hoa i te Motu, kia marama te titiro, ka mate nga
Mota e rua, e kore rawa e hoki mai kia tatou, tona
mutunga iho akuanei, he raruraru mo enei Motu e rua.
Kai a Te Makarini te he, me te huna i nga whenua o nga
iwi Maori, heoi ano.
Waipounamu.
— \_\_\_
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA. I
E hoa tena koe, e kare panga atu e koe nga kupu wha-
kanara i raro nei, makaa atu ki runga ki to retireti hei
kawe hohoro atu ki ronga, ki raro, ki nga taha ki nga !
wahi patata e pirangitia nei e te tino kai tuku atu, heoi
tonu enei. Na, e hoa ma, e nga iwi o Hauraki, puta noa
puta noa, whakarongo mai, i whakaturia to tatou Mema a i
Hoani Nahe, e tatou kia mau ai o tatou whenua, kia |
mutu ai ta tatou rukeruke, na, kia mahara ra, e Hauraki i
ki tenei kia koutou,kei kore tatou e kitea e to tatou Mema '
kei tahuri ke atu ia ki ona iwi e pumau nei ta ratou wha-
kaaro ki tena ki, kua whakina mai nei hoki e o tatou tua- i
kana i tera pito nga taura he matakitaki atu ma tatou,
heoti ano. Na, e hoa ma, kua tino whakapumautia ano
hoki, e koutou e nga iwi o Hauraki nei, he Komiti mo te
Mema i te 25, o Hanuere i te tau 1876, kiia ana ma taua.
Komiti e whakahaere nga tikanga a taua Mema, me nga
tikanga mo te iwi, me nga ritenga mo te whenua me nga
Tare mo te iwi, me nga ture mo te whenua i oti
katoa enei mea te tuku e koutou e nga rangatira,
o Hauraki, ki te Komiti i te ra i oti ai te
hanga taua Komiti nei. kaati ena. E hoa ma, e nga
rangatira o Hauraki, whakarongo mai, kua oti i ta koutou
Komiti, i whakatu nei, te whakapumau tuturu tika i a
ratou etahi o a ratou Ture i pai ai mo nga iwi o Hauraki
nei, puta noa, puta noa. Koia ra tenei, Tuatahi,
me pupuru te tangata i tona whenua hei oranga
mona atu ano ki ona uri i muri i a ia, ehara hoki
te Maori i te iwi tohunga ki nga mahi raweke, hei homai
ora mo tona tinana, kao, na konei ra i tika ai te ki a te
Komiti, ko te whenua anake te kai hari tika ruai i te ora
ki runga ki te tangata whaka te Maori. Tuarua, ko te
waipiro, me mutu ta tatou kai, e tika ana te ki a te Komiti.
i ki nei, ko te kai tenei i kaha ki te rapu utu mona, mo
tona kainga e te tangata. Tua-toru, ko te uhunga e
rangona tonutia ana etahi o koutou, e ki ana kia mutu to
uhunga, e rangona ana ano hoki nga putake i ki ai etahi
o koutou, me mutu tana aroha, na whakarongo mai kua
whakatuturutia tenei ki, me tangi tonu te Maori i ona
tupapaku, ahakoa, rangatira, ahakoa ware, me tangi tonu
i runga i te aroha o tatou tupuna iho, me a ratou tikanga
punui e pata ana i roto i tenei mea, kua kiia, kauaka e
kimihia ne kai ma te uhunga i te Pakeha, engari, me tunu
nga kai i whakatupuria e o tatou ringaringa ahakoa nui,
ahakoa iti, na tua iho. Ko te kai a te Pakeha te take
haiahi nei etahi o tatou kia warewaretia taua aroha nui
motu tonu te kimi ata i nga kai a tena iwi tohunga ki
nga mahi raweke o te ao, ngote tonu i nga waiu o to
tupuna whenua e takoto nei. Tua-wha, kua oti te ki nei,
kauaka tatou e wareware ki te taonga o to tatou tupuna,
ara, ki te karanga i te tangata haere ki te kainga, me mau
tonu tena mea, ara, kua whakatuturutia kia nekehia
ake te kaha o te karanga tangata o naianei i te
kaha o to mua karanga, pupuru ki te kai, ki te
kaainga, ki te whare, ahakoa tangata tupu, ahakoa tangata
ke, ahakoa, whai kai te kaainga, ahakoa, koia te kai, me
karanga tonu, ma te tangata haere te whakaaro ki te
noho, ki te haere tonu ranei, e pai ana mutu ana i konei
nga Ture i oti i te Komiti, kei te hangaa ano etahi
tikanga, ko te tokomaha o te komiti nana i whiriwhiri i
enei Ture e 30, he hianga anake aua Mema, a me te tika
hoki i tenei taru i te kaumatua, heoti, kaati ra, ka mutu.
E mohiotia ana ahau e koutou, me patai hoki to koutou
hoa,
NA RAIKA WHAKARONGOTAI.
Taratiu, Hauraki.
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA.
Ko te ra tenei i haere ai taua hui a Ngaiterangi ki te Wai-
roa, he nui te pai o taua hui i te hoenga atu i o ratou waka i
waho i te moara haere ake nga tangata i runga i aua waka.
170, nga tangata i runga i nga waka e rima 5. He nui te pai
heoi pau atu taua iwi ki uta. Ka moe i reira, ao-ake te ra,
ka whakaara kei te iwi ra ia ratou, katahi ka haere taua iwi
i te rori piriti, a te Kuini, ka whiti i taua rori, piriti, ka puta
a Hori Ngatai, ki te whakatika i te haere a taua iwi. me te
mea kei te au e noho ana. i te pai o te Raukura, ka kitea e te
tangata whenua, ka pohiritia ko te pohiri tenei a nga iwi o
taua Pa. Haere maira, e te manuhiri tuaarangi. na taku po-
tiki iti ki kite taha tu o te rangi i kukume mai ai hei. Heoi
ka tae atu taua hui ki te Pa. ka noho i taua Pa. Ka whaka-
tika mai, no Ngati-raukawa. haere mai Matatua, haere mai.
Ngai-terangi. haere mai. ki Tauranga, ka huri, katu ano te
ope.
Ko Enoka Te Whanake, me te kakahu kiwi, katahi katu,
ki te whai korero. Haere mai Nati-rauka. haere mai, e etahi
atu iwi, haere mai ki Tauranga, ka tu taua Waiata. Tera re
tai uru kahu rai whiti kahu, te roimata i roto, mehe wairuru
kei aku kamo, kati tearoha te kai maunga mai, kamotunga
a whenua nga korupewhare, o kapuairarora, ki nga mahinga
erake mae homai he autui, kawehe taku kiri mehetaraougao-
uga, he maru i eke mai oromatotoru, waihotakuhika heitiri-
whana ki te iho nui, hei pere ki tawhiti katuiri te whakako-
kinga i. Heoi puta katoa te whaka pai a nga iwi katoa ki a
Ngaiterangi, heoi ano.
NA TAMATI TE MOANAROA,
NA WI PERE TE WHEORO.
O te Matapihi.
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA.
E hoa tena koe. e hoa kia pai mai to ngakau ki te utauta i
nga toru kupu na ki te ihu o to tatou WANANGA, hei hoe aru
ki nga marae e maha i te Motu nei. He panui i kite ahau e
mau ana i te toa i Maketu na tetehi hapu o Te Arawa ki
Maketu, e mea ana taua panui, me mutu te tangihanga.
engari nga whanaunga, ka tika ki te haere ki te tangi i tuna
mate. Tuarua, ko te Ture mo te wahine pouaru kua koro e
utua te marena, o tona taane i mate me moe noaiho taua
pouaru. Tuatoru, ao te wahine i whakarerea e tona taane, ki
te moe i tetehi atu tangata, kaore e utua atu ki te taane.
Tuatahi, ki te whakarere raua i a raua, kore mana tonu iho
te taane ki te wahine, te wahine ki te taane, moe noa aru taua
wahine i te taane. Kaua rawa te taua e tu mo ena tu wahine,
engari te wahine e moea e tetehi tangata, na tetehi tangata
te wahine i moea tahaetia e tetehi, me tu te taua ki taua
tangata i moe tahae, me utu ano ia. Na toku ngakau ake
tenei. E tika ana ano kia whakarerea e tatou enei Ture a o
tatou tupuna matua, nga Ture taua wahine nei, engari ano te
wahine i moea e tetehi tangata, ka tika, ko tona taane anake
e haere mai ki te tono utu, kaua nga huaanga, na, ko te Ture
tangi tupapaku, me haere ano nga whanaunga ki te tangi i o
ratou aroha o mua, a ki nga aroha o nga whanaunga o mua.
Ko te take i meatia ai, me mutu etehi, kua ahua Pakeha to
ahua o etahi hapu o to tatou Moutere, kaati aku kupu wha-
kaatu, na to hoa,
NA HOHAIA TAMAOHU,
Maketu.
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TE WANANGA.
PANUITANGA.
Niho ! Niho !
KUA MUTU TE UTU KI NGA TAKUTA 110 NGA NIHO
O TE HUNGA NIHO TUNGA.
KI nga Maori o Haaku Pei. Mehemea he niho tunga a
Koutou, a mehemea kua kore rawa atu he niho i a
koutou, maku e unu nga niho tunga, a ka hoatu ai he niho
hou. he niho pai ke atu i nga niho i tupu mai i nga ra o
koutou e taitamariki ana, e kore nga niho hou e mamae, e
kaha ano ki te ngaungau kai. a e taea ano te unu ki waho o
te mangai, kia horoia aua niho kia ma tonu kei piringia e te
| para kai, a e pai ano te tuku atu ano ki te mangai mau ai
ano. He nui nga mate e tupu mai ana i te nohi tunga, he
mea hoki e kore e tino koparuparu te kai e nga niho tunga te
ngaungau, na reira i na mai ai te mate ki te tangata.
I TE WIRIHANA.
! Kai mahi niho.
Tenehana Tiriti. Nepia. 17
I
i T. MORIHANA
KAI-MAHI WATI. Hehitingi Tirite. ka 17 ona tau e mah
ana i roto o Haku Pei. E mea ana ki te whakaatu ki
', ana hoa Maori. kua tae mai ki a ia nga Wati ma te tane ma te
Wahine, he Koura he Hiriwa.
Ko te utu o te Wati kei te Rua pauna te kau hereni ka
timata atu, ka whakarunga.
Kanui aua Karaka. Tin: Wari. Pine. Ringi me era atu
taonga koura. Hiriwa.
Ko to tangata e hiahia ana ki te hoko Wati ki te utu iti,
me haere mai inaianei i to mea e inaha ana.
Kanui te Mohiti hei hoko.
Ko te Karaka ko to Wati me era mea e hohoro tonutia, aua
te whakaora.
Kei te Ritenga atu o TE WANANGA tana Whare. Nepia.
'
! i
I
MANAIA, HE TIMA,
E RERE tonu ana tenei Tima, atu ano i Nepia ki te
Wairoa, ka paki te rangi te rere ai. He tima tenei
e eke ai te Maori, kei to kapene i te Tima, kei Te Taranapira
Te Peti te korero. Te utu i te kapene mo te tangata eke Ł1 i te
i Nepia ki te Wairoa, i te Wairoa, ki Nepia ko taua
i utu ano. Mo te tana, utanga Ł1 10 ki te ritenga o te ruuri, a
Ł1 mo te tana wahie me nga mea pera.
; Ki te mea ka kiia e te tangata ana kupu mo aua mea ka
mahia he tikanga e ratou ko te kapene, mo era. 203
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TE WANANGA.
Te Kuini. E ako ana ano hoki matou i te iwi kia tutu,
a kahore he mea he i ngaro ia matou te ako ki nga
iwi, e ki nei hoki ana tini Nupepa. A he mea atu
tenei ki te iwi katoa, a na nga kupu a Te Tere Kara-
whe matou i ki ai, ma nga. kupu o Te Tere Karawha
e homai he take e pataitai ai matou i te tika ranei i te
he ranei o nga kupu e whakapae nei aua tini Nupepa
kia matou ki TE WANANGA. E whakaae ana Te Nu-
pepa Tero Harawhe, he tika ta matou kupu i ki nei. i
mano tini nga eka whenua a te Maori i riro huhua
kore mo te keeke Rama wai-piro ki te Pakeha. A e !
ahua whakaae ana ano hoki taua Nupepa, he tika ano
te kupu i kiia nei. he mea Mokete te whenua mo te
Paki. A e ki nui ana, e tino hangai pu ana nga kupu
a tana Nupepa a Te Tere Karawhe. ki te penei, i nga wa
i hiahia ai nga Rangatira Maori, ki te mahi tauira i nga
mahi he a te Pakeha mau mau moni, he nui noa atu
nga Pakeha i pai atu ki aua Maori, kia hoatu he mea
ma aua Maori hei mahi i aua mahi whakatutua i te ta-
ngata. Otiia ko te utu a ana mea i tukua noatia nei
e aua Pakeha ki aua Maori, ko nga whenua a aua Ma-
ori, a he whenua i mohiotia e aua Pakeha. he whenua
pupuri kau na nga Rangatira Maori mo a ratou
tangata o a ratou Hapu. A koia na nga take korero
a taua Nupepa, i enei ra hei whakaoraora, i a ratou
Pakeha i mahi hoko maminga nei i nga whenua a nga
Maori. E kore e tika kia kiia nga ki whakakahore i
nga mahi i he i mahia i nga ra kua pahure nei. I nga
mahi mau mau moni i te kainga i te waipiro, a he mea
hoki i ka he ai te Maori ki aua mahi, he whakatene-
tene tonu na aua Pakeha i aua Maori i mau tonu ai
ana mahi he. He nui noa atu nga nukarau. nga mahi
muru, nga mahi i tino raru rawa ai te Maori i te
Pakeha i aua ra. Ano ka he enei tike i whakahe atu
e matou, koia i rere ke ai te kupu a aua Pakeha, na
ratou nei i kino ai i hengia ai te ingoa pai o te
te Pakeha, a e penei ana te kupu a aua Pakeha te tu a
whakapae a aua Pakeha ki nga Rangatira Maori, a e
mea ana aua Pakeha, ko ana Rangatira Maori nga
tangata i te he. E ui ana matou, na wai i whiwhi ai
te Maori i te rama waipiro. Nawai i ako te Maori
ki tenei mea ki te mokete, mo nga whenua i kiia hei
whenua pupuri ma te iwi. hei mokete mo te wai e
kia nei ho wai no te Reinga. A kowai i enei ra ki
te noho i aua whenua pai i kiia i mua hei whenua
mau ake tonu ake ma nga iwi Maori? A mehemea
he pono te kupu e kiia nei e aua Pakeha, ko nga
Rangatira Maori nga tangata he, nawai i ako aua
Rangatira Maori ki te mahi i te mahi he? Nowai
nga moni i hoatu ki aua Rangatira Maori, i mana ai
te mahi i aua mahi he? A i awai nga moni nui i
puta o aua wahi he? "E hara ranei, te tangata
tango atu i te mea tahae, i te mea e rite ana
tana he, ki te he o te tangata mana i tahae te taonga."
He nui ano nga tikanga he e he ai te tangata. Otiia
e mea ana matou, ko te tino o te he rawa atu, ko te
whakapatipati a tetahi tangata i te tahi tangata
kia mate he, kia puta ai he moni, he taonga
ranei ki aia i whakapatipati nei tana hoa, a
i muri tata iho ai o ka korero whakahe te
kai patipati ra i te mahi he o tana hoa. E kore ano e
ora enei tu tangata, i nga mahi a nga Nupepa e tuhi
tuhi nei. Ahakoa noho aua tu tangata i te Kawana-
tanga. Ahakoa kiia e te iwi he Rangatira, aua Pake-
ha. Ahakoa haere ratou ki te Karakia. Ahakoa
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TE WANANGA.
NGA KONGO KORERO.
MAHI KURU TEPARA.
KUA rango matou kua tae mai nga pukapuka a nga
Pakeha me nga Maori o Whangara, o Uawa kia He-
nare Paraone, W. C. T. o te Komiti Kuru Tepara.
Tumanako Maori, NO 78 e tu nei ki Matahiwi. Ka-
raiwa i roto i te Porowini o Haku Pei. A kua tae
mai hoki te pukapuka whakamana, tonu hoki a te
tino Komiti nui o nga Kuru Tepara e tu nei i Aka-
rana, kia haere a Henare Paraone ki aua kainga wha-
katu ai i nga Komiti Kuru Tepara Maori, me te wha-
kaatu mai hoki e te tino Komiti o Akara i te
pukapuka a Kerehona Piwaka o Whangara, e
ana kia tukua mai he pukapuka whakamana
ter) Komiti Kuru Tepara, a kua tukua hoki e Kere-
hona Piwaka, nga utu mo tana pukapuka whakamana
£2 2s. Engari i rongo matou e te ra nga Komiti
Kuru Tepara e tu ia Henare Paraone. Kotahi kei
Hirini Te Kani, terua kia Kerehoma Piwaka, te toru,
kia Peta Maitai. Ka nui rawa atu ta matou koa ki te
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TE WANANGA.
No reira e kore e taea e te Komiti te whakapuaki i tetahi
kupu tuturu ma ratou ki te Whare too tenei pukapuka-inoi,
engari e mea ana ratou me tuku atu taua pukapuka-inoi, me
an tohutohu maha me ana kupu whakangahau, ki te Kawa-
natanga ma ratou e titiro iho.
(HOANI PAREIHA.)
JOHN BRYC.E.
Tumuaki.
Hepetema 27, 1876.
Ko TE KUPU A TE KOMITI MO RUNGA I TE PUKAPUKA-INOI
A W. H. TAIPARI.— E tono ana te kai-inoi ki te moni e rima
mano pauna(£5,000) mo tana kitenga, whakinga, whakatu-
wheratanga hoki i tetahi whenua koura whai ritenga i te
Porowini o Akarana.
Kua whakahanu ahau kia ki penei ki te Whare :—" E
whakaaro ana te Komiti notemea ko te rima mano Pauna
(£5000) i whakaaria e te Porowini o Akarana kua wehewehea
(i muri o te ata kimihanga a tetahi Komihana i whakaturia
mo tana mea) ki te kai-inoi me etahi atu. kahore e ahei tetahi
tono ma ratou inaianei ki te Kawanatanga."
(WINIHA PAKA.)
VINCENT PYKE.
Tumuaki.
Hurae 25, 1876.
KO TE KUPU A TE KOMITI MO RUNGA I TE PUKAPUKA-
INOI A MANIHERA TE RANGITAKAIWAHO MA o WAIRARAPA.
—He pukapuka-inoi tenei na nga tangata o Wairarapa he
whakaatu i to ratou pouri mo te hokonga hetanga o to ratou
roto i Wairarapa e nga Komihana o te Kawanatanga inahoki
i whakahe te nuinga o nga rangatira me o ratou hapu ki taua
hoko. E ki ana ratou, i wehea i kapea tonutia taua roto i
nga, wa o nga hokongo whenua katoa hei wahi porowhita mo
nga Maori.
Kua whakahaua ahua kia ki penei ata ki te Whare :—E
marama ana te Komiti i runga i nga korero kua whakara-
ngona e ratou kahore i uru te nuinga o nera tangata no ratou
te roto ki te hoko, a e whakaaro ana te Komiti he mea pai
meheme i whakawakia e te Kooti Whakawa Whenua. Maori te
teke o nga tangata ki taua roto i mua ata o te whakaotinga o
te hoko : a e whakaaro aua hoki te Komiti he mea tika kia
tukua ki nga Kai-inoi ki etahi atu Maori ranei e ki ana e
whai take aua ki reira tetahi takiwa hei whakatuturutanga i
to rotou take, mehemea ia ka taea e ratou e whakatutara, i te
aroaro o te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori.
(HOANI PARAIHI)
JOHN PRYCE.
Tumuaki.
Hepetema 29, 1876.
KO TE KUPU A TE KOMITI MO RUNGA I TE PUKAPUKA-
INOI A APERAHAMA TUPU ME ONA HOA E 65.—E ki ana nga
kai-inoi kahore i tika te whakahaeretanga o o ratou whenua ;
kua tangohia he whenua i a ratou hei utu kai ma etahi.
E ki ana ratou kahore ratou i tuhi i o ratou ingoa ki to
pukapuka o te whakatuwheratanga o te whenua-koura i
Ohinemuri, a e inoi ana ratou kia whiriwhiria tikatia paitia
hoki o ratou tikanga.
Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei atu ki te Whare :—I
tukua mai tetahi pukapuka-inoi penei me tenei i tera tau a ki
ana te Komiti mo nga mea Maori o reira kia whakawateatia
he takiwa kia ahei ai te whakawakanga o nga take o nga
tangata e ki ana no ratou te whenua e tautohetia nei, ki te
aroaro o te Kooti Whaka Whenua Maori.
Otira kahore pea i mahia he tikanga i runga i taua kupu.
ahakoa nga tono a etahi o nga kai-inoi.
E whakaaro ana tenei Komiti ka rite katoa nga tikana o
tenei mea e te kupu a te Komiti mo nga. mea Maori o tera
tau. Ka marama noa iho te ngakau o nga kai-inoi mehemea
ka tukua ratou tono ki te Kooti.
E mea ana hoki te Komiti kia kaua e tukua he takiwa roa
kia pahure mua mai o te tunga o te Kooti, notemea ma te
Kooti kia turia, kia kimihia hoki i runga i te tikanga o te
ture ko wai ma ranei nga tangata no ratou nga whenua e
tautohetia ana, ka kore katoa ai nga take pouri raruraru hoki.
(HOANI PARAIHI.)
JOHN BEYCE.
Tumuaki.
Hepetema 28, 1876.
TE HUI KI OMAHU.
OMAHU, Maehe 8 1877.
I HUIHUI te hui i te waru o nga haora o te ahiahi ki te
whakatu Tumuaki mo te hui. Kanui nga rangatira o nga
whenua katoa i reira.
Na Manaena i motini, ko Henare Matua hei Tiamana,
na Karaitiana Takamoana i tautoko.
Na Petera Rangihiroa i motini, ko Henare Tomoana he
Tiamana, na Te Muera i tautoko.
Katahi ka wahi te hui, a kitea ana. he maha ke nga
tangata i Pooti kia Henare Tomoana, a tu ana ia hei
Tiamana mo te hui.
Katahi ka Pootitia he Karaka mo te hui, tu ana ko TV.
H Kerehi.
I konei ka mutu nga mahi mo tenei ra, kiia ana e te
Tiamana hei apopo i te 12 o nga haora o te awatea, ka
huihui ano te hui.
Maehe 9, 1877.
I huihui te hui i te 12 o nga haora o te awatea.
Nga rangatira i reira, ko Renata Kawepo, Karaitiana
Takamoana, Henare Tomoana, Henare Matua, Manaena
Tini, Paora Kaiwhata, Tareha Te Moananui, Waaka Kawa-
tini, Noa Huke, Te Muera, Rota Porehua, Urupeni Puhara,
Meihana Takihi, Peni Te Ua, Manahi Te Aro, Paora
Torotoro, Te Katene, Horima Katene, Whanganui ; Mete
Kingi, Whanganui ; Te Moroati, Otaki ; Tikawenga,
Wairarapa ; Petera Rangihiroa, Taupo ; Te Oti Takarangi.
Whanganui ; Hori Te Huki, Wairarapa ; Tawhawhakia
Te Rangi, Whanganui ; Eparaima, Pirimona Te Uruka-
hika, Heta Tiki, Karauna, Wairarapa ; Hanita Te Awe-
awe, Manawatu ; Wi Wanoa, (Ngatiporou,) Kawakawa
Pita Koaua, Hoani Tokotoko, Reihana Ikatahi, Renata
Pukututu, Hoani Ngaihi, Anatipa, Haare Paraone, Nga-
tiporou, Wiremu Te Ota, Maika Iwikatea, Ihakara Te
Kuhu, Wiremu Wheko, Te Hapuku. Ko enei nga tangata
i whai kupu, tera atu te nuinga, tena e tae ki te rua rau
nga taane, haunga nga wahine.
Henare Tomoana i roto o te Tia.
Korerotia ana e te Tiamana te panui karanga i tenei hui.
Katahi ka mea atu ia ki te huihuinga, tena koutou, ka wha-
katakotoria ki o koutou aroaro etahi putake nunui hei
whiriwhiringa ma koutou, a. he mea atu taku kia koutou,
kia marama, kia pai ta koutou mahi, kia manawanui, kaua
e mahia porahutia nga putake ka hoatu nei kia mahia e
koutou, katahi ka panuitia e ia nga putake hei whiri-
whiringa roa te hui :—
1.—Ko te mahi tuatahi a tenei Hui he whakahou
i te ki kia noho pai i raro o te mana o te Kuini me
ana Ture.
2.—Ko te Hui e whakapai ana ki te Paremata mo
tana ata whiriwhiri i nga mea e ra ana ki te iwi
Maori, ahakoa he inaha nga mate nunui o te Maori
kei te toe hei mahinga.
3.—E koa ana te Hui ki tana rongonga kua mutu
rawa te hoko a te Kawanatanga i nga whenua Maori.
Ko nga kino i pa ki te iwi Maori i runga i nga mahi
a nga kai-hoko whenua a te Kawanatanga, kanui te
maha, a he tika rawa te mutunga o taua tu mahi.
4.—E koa ana te Hui ki te whakaritenga o te ta
o nga Mema Maori ki te tu o nga Mema Pakeha,
ara, ko te rite tenei, kua pumau ; engari e mea ana
ano te Hui mo ta ratou tono o tera Hui. kia hangaa
tetahi Ture hou, Ture tuturu, kia riterite nga Mema
Maori, mo nga tangata Maori, ki nga Mema Pakeha
i mo nga tangata Pakeha : a, kia whakarerea, nga.
Takiwa Pooti o nainei ; me whakarite nga rohe o
nga tino Iwi hei rohe, mo nga Takiwa Pooti hou.
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TE WANANGA.
8.—Kia Whakamanaa te Ture mo te Maori kia uru
ki nga Huuri i roto o nga Kooti Pakeha, ana whakawa
i nga mea e uru ai te Maori.
9.—Ko nga Rangatira me nga tangata mohio o
nga iwi katoa o to Motu nei, me mea e ratou nga
ingoa o nga tangata e tika ana kia whai Pooti, kia
eke ki runga o nga Pukapuka Pooti.
10.—Ko te iwi Maori o te Koroni katoa, rae kaua e
Pooti mo nga Kaunihera, hoa kei waiho hei putake
tono moni kia puta ki nga Kaunihera nao nga whenua
a te Maori.
11.—Ko te Kawanatanga me kaha atu tana mahi
ki te whakatu Kura ki nga wahi katoa o te Motu, kia
mohio ai nga tamariki Maori ki te reo Pakeha, ma
tenei hoki ka rite ki te Pakeha, ka mohio hoki ki nga
mahi naana nei i whakanui te iwi Pakeha.
12.—Ko te Hui e mea ana ki nga Rangatira katoa
me nga Iwi katoa o te Motu, kia whakarerea nga
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TE WANAGNA.
Take 3. E ki ana matau e tika ana kia tu tetahi Hui o
nga Rangatira o nga iwi, i in tau i ia tau, kia korerotia
nga mea katoa e pa ana e whai inana ana, kia matau,
ki» kimihia o matau mate, kia ata korerotia nga mea
e pa ana, kia tukua ki te aroaro o te Paremata nui o i
Nui Tireni, ma te Hui e whakarite te kainga hei tuunga
mo to Hui, o te tau i muri iho o taua Hui. Heoi ano
tenei.
Take 4. Me whiriwhiri e matau nga tangata e pai ana
ratau kia tu hei Komiti whakahaere i nga mea katoa kua
whakaaetia i roto i nga kupu tuarua tuatoru o enei
korero. Heoi ano tenei.
Take 5. E mea ana mataa kia whakakahoretia te Ture
whai mana i enei ra, mo nga mema Maori o te Pare-
mata, ara, ko te Ture e mea ana, ki a tukua ki te Pare-
mata nga Mema tokoiti mo nga tau e rima. Me hanga
tetahi Ture hou, Ture tuturu, kia riterite nga Mema
Maori mo nga tangata Maori, ki nga Mema Pakeha, mo
nga tangata Pakeha. A ki a whakarerea nga takiwa
Pooti o naia nei, me whakarite nga rohe o nga tino
iwi. Hei rohe mo nga takiwa Pooti hou. Heoi ano
tenei.
Take 6. E mea ana matau ko nga whakahaerenga o nga
Hoko, o nga whenua Maori i runga i nga ritenga e
whai mana ana inaianei. He mea whakapohehe. He
mea kino. A me mutu te Hoko, i runga i aua tu
ritenga, kaua te whenua e Hokona i runga i te takiwa
e takoto papatipu ana, mehemea ka whakaae te toko-
maha, kia Ruuritia, kia Kootitia te Whenua, katahi, ka
tika kia Ruuritia, kia Kootitia. Mehemea ka whaka-
aetia e te tokomaha kia Hokona te whenua, katahi
ka tika kia Hokona. I te takiwa kaore ano kia
whakaaaetia te Hoko, kaua he moni e puta atu ki
nga tangata na ratau te whenua, me mutu hoki te
haere poka noa a nga Apiha o te Kawanatanga ki nga
takiwa Maori, ki te tohe ki nga whenua Maori, kia
tukua o ratau whenua, kia Ruuritia, kia Kootitia ranei,
me waiho te whakaaro ki aua tangata mo te Ruuri-
tanga, mo te Kootitanga ranei o a ratou whenua.
Heoi ano tenei.
Take 7. E mea ana matau kia whakakahoretia te Ture
e whai mana aua inaianei. E whakamana ana taua
Ture i te Kawanatanga ki te pupuri i nga whenua
Maori kia kaua aua whenua e Hokona ki nga Pakeha
noa atu. Heoi ano tenei.
Take 8. E mea ana matau, ko nga Ture nana i whaka-
mana nga Kooti Whakawa Whenua o naianei. kia
whakakahoretia, me homai e te Paremata o te Koroni
etahi Ture marama, Ture whakahaere tika i nga
whenua Maori. Me ki taua Ture kia rite nga kai
whakawa o nga Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori, ki
nga kai whakawa o etahi atu Kooti tuturu, kia kaua
te Kawanatanga e whai mana ki runga ki aua kai
whakawa whenua Maori. Heoi ano tenei.
Take 9. E mea ana matau, ko tena Kawanatanga i
whakaturia i te tau 1860. He Kawanatanga kino.
kaore ona mahi tika, kaore ona mahi pai mo te iwi
Maori, ma te Paremata e turaki taua Kawanatanga.
Heoi ano tenei.
Take 10. Me tuhituhi e matau tetahi Pitihana korero pai
ki to matau Kuini, tono ki a ia kia tukua mai tetahi
tangata korero pono, mahi tika. Hui kimi i o matau
mate. He tuhituhi i a matau korero, kia kitea e to
matau Kuini. Heoi ano tenei.
Take 11. E ki ana matau kia kaua e whakahengia, e
turakina ranei te Pooti mo te Mema Maori o te takiwa
o te Tai Rawhiti, ko nga Apiha o te Kawanatanga
anake, me whakahe, me turaki nua Apiha Kawanatanga
anake.
Karauria. E whakaae ona ahau ki nga putake katoa o
tera hui i tukua nei ki te Paremata, e mea ana ano hoki
ahau kia riterite nga Mema Maori mo nga tangata Maori.
ki nga Mema Pakeha mo nga tangata Pakeha : a kia rua
wehewehenga o te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori, ko
nga wahi raruraru me tuku ki te Kooti ko nga wahi
papatupu me waiho.
Henare Matua. E whakaae ake ana ahau i oku whaka
aro mo nga take korero o te hui ki Pakowhai. Ki taku
whakaaro, me whakahoki nua putake ki te Paremata, kaore
ano hoki kia whakaatu mai te Paremata, ki tu iwi Maori î
te otinga i te ahatanga ranei o ana take e ratou, kei ta
peneitanga e te Paremata, katahi ka tika kia totoro iho
tatou ki etahi putake hou.
Renata Kawepo. Ki taku, ko nga putake o tera hui me
tuku ano ki te Paremata, no te mea kaore ano i marama
te mahi a te Paremata, me tohe ano tatou, a kia oti mai ra
ano. katahi ka mutu, kia marama ai tatou ki te hanga
take hou hei mahi ma tatou.
Tareha Te Moananui. Me hoki ano nga korero o te hui
ki Pakowhai ki te Paremata, kaore e pai kia takoto oti
kore, kaore e pai kia hangaa he korero hou, i te mea kei
te takoto kore oti era. engari me hoki ano aua korero, kia
whakaatu mai ra ano te Paremata i nga mea kua oti, i
nga mea kaore ano, katahi ka pai.
Te Katene. Ki taku whakaaro, kaore he korero ke atu,
engari me hoki aua putake ki te Paremata.
Horima Katene. Me hoki enei take ki te Paremata,
kia oti mai i te Paremata, katahi ka mahi he take hou, ko
aku kupu mo te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori, me mutu
te Ruuri, ko nga raruraru me tuku ki te Runanga. Kia oti
nga putake o tera hui. ka mahi ai he putake hou hei
mahinga ma tenei hui.
Mete Kingi. Na te panui ka tae ake i haere mai ai nga
tangata mohio o te Motu nei. koia te take i haere mai ai
te kotahi o tena iwi. te tokorua o tena iwi, kua tae mai nei
ki Omahu, a o noho nei i roto o tenei whare. Ka tora
whakatunga Mema mo te iwi Maori. I te tunga tua-tahi,
i tae maua ko Tareha ki te Paremata, i reira maua e titiro
ana, kua mohio ano maua, e kore te iwi Maori e ora, kua
hinga maua, kua tu ko Karaitiana Takamoana mo tenei
takiwa, ko Wi Parata to tera Tai o tenei Motu, kua kite
atu matou i waho nei, ko taua ahua ano i a maua ko
Tareha. Tua-toru o nga whakatunga Mema mo te iwi
Maori, ko Karaitiana Takamoana to tenei takiwa, to
Hoani Nahe to tera takiwa, e titiro nei te iwi Maori, ka
toru whakatomokanga ki te Paremata, a kaore ano i
marama te ritenga mo te iwi Maori, me te iti hoki o te
whenua kua toe iho kia ratou, koia ka maharatia kia whai
ano te iwi Maori i runga o te Ture kua homai nei ki tenei
Motu. E roa nga iwi e noho nei i tenei Motu, ko te
Maori, ko te Pakeha, e kiia nei, kotahi ano to raua Ture,
koia ka maharatia, me Paremata ano mo tatou, kia korero
tahi ai tatou i nga Ture mo tatou, heoi tena kopu. Ka
korero au i te Pitihana i whakahokia mai nei o te hui ki
Pakowhai.—"Whakarongo e nga iwi i roto o tenei whare,
me whakahoki ano e tatou tenei Pitihana, e kore e pai kia
whakarerea te kupu tua-tahi, me mahi tonu tatou i tenei
Pitihana, kua panuitia nei. ake ake tonu atu. kia tau te
rangimarietanga, o te iwi Maori ki runga o te Ture, kia
huaina ai he iwi kotahi, he Ture kotahi.
Moroati. E whakatika ana ahau ki ene; take, no te mea
e whakamama ana i nga mea e whakataimaha nei i a tatou,
mo to taha ki nga Mema, kaore au u Pooti Mema, i Pooti
au kia Hoani Nahe, kia Wi Parata, a kaore he mea i puta
mai ki au, engari, ano a Karaitiana, a Taiaroa. Mo te taha
ki te Kooti Whakawa, kaore i te pai. ka whakapai ahau
i kia kotahi tatou.
Tikawenga. Me hoki nga take nei ki roto o te Pare-
I mata, kaore hoki tatou i te mohio ki te whakaotinga mai,
mehemea hoki i oti, ka mahi ano tatou i etahi take hei
tapiri.
Petera Te Rangihiroa. He mea pohiri na konei ka tae
mai ki tenei hui. Ka toko-toru o Whanganui ka tu ki
te korero. A ko au e whakaae ana ano kia whakahokia ki
te Paremata nga korero o te hui ki Pakowhai, mehemea i
utua mai, kua pai to hanga atu ano i etahi putake hou, ko
tenei, mo whakahoki ano taua pukapuka ki te Paremata,
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THE NATIVE MEETING AT OMAHU.
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OMAHU, March 8. 1877.
THE meeting was opened at 8 p.m., to consider and vote
for a chairman to preside over the meeting. A great
assembly of chiefs from all parts of the land were present.
Manaena Tini proposed, and Karaitiana Takamoana
seconded the motion, that Henare Matua be chairman of
the meeting. Petera Rangihiroa proposed, and Temuera
seconded the motion, that Henare Tomoana be chairman
of the meeting. A vote was taken, and as there were
more votes for Henare Tomoana he was elected. A vote
was then taken to appoint a clerk to the meeting. Mr.
W. H. Grace was electced. The meeting was then closed.
and a motion proposed that the meeting again assemble
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March 9
The meeting was opened at 12 noon. There were also
two hundred men besides women. These are the names
of the chiefs who spoke : —Renata Kawepo. Karaitiana
Takamoana. Henare Tomoana, Henare Matua. Manaena
Tini, Paora Kaiwhata, Tareha Te Moananui. Waka Kawa-
tini, Noa Huke, Temuera Rota Porehua, Urupene Puhara
Meihana Takihi, Peni te Ua: Manahi te Aro. Paora Toro-
toro. Te Katene, Horima Katene, of Wanganui : Mete
Kingi, of Whanganui ; Te Moroati, of Otaki : Tikawenga,
of Wairarapa; Petero Rangihiroa, of Taupo : Te
Takarangi, of Whanganui : Hori Te Huki, of Wairarapa;
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(c). We say that the manner of purchasing land in
accordance with the existing regulations is evil, and
the cause of much confusion, and that land purchas-
ing operations under such regulations should cense ;
that land should not be purchased in unalienated dis-
tricts ; that if a tribe, or a hapu, or the chiefs, con-
sent that any land shall be surveyed and adjudicated
on by the Lands Court, then only shall it be right to
have it surveyed and taken into the Lands Court :
that if the majority agree to sell any land, then only
will it be right to sell it : that in any district where
consent has not been given for the sale of any land
no money shall be advanced to the owners of such
land ; that officers of the Government shall not enter
Native districts uncalled or uninvited to pester Na-
tives to alienate their lands, or to have them sur-
veyed and submitted to the adjudication of the Lands
Court, but that the Natives shall be allowed to use
their own discretion as to whether they will have
their lands surveyed and passed through the Court or
not.
8. Let Maoris be authorised by Iaw to sit on juries in
European courts when matters affecting Maoris are being
tried.
9. Let the chiefs and intelligent men of all the tribes
of the island be allowed to prepare a list of names of
fitting persons to exercise the right of voting, so that
their names may be placed on the electoral rolls.
10. Let all the Maori tribes of the island refrain from
voting for members to serve in the County Councils, lest
such voting be taken as a reason for taxing the lands of
the Maoris for the purposes of the Council.
11. Let the Government be move energetic in estab-
lishing schools in every part of the island, that the
children may learn the language of the Pakehas; by this
means they will be in a position of equality with the
Pakehas, and will acquire a knowledge of the pursuits
and occupations which have raised the Pakehas to their
present position.
12. The meeting exhorts all the chiefs and people of
the island to abandon the old customs and habits, and to
return to the true Faith, and the teachings of the Scrip-
tures.
13. The meeting is glad to learn that the disputes rela-
tive to Kakirawa and the Awa-o-te-Atua has been settled
by the payment of a large sum of money and the return
of a portion of the land. The Europeans of these islands
will see that the complaints of the Maoris of Hawke's
Bay against Mr. Sutton and other Europeans were not
false. If their proceedings had not been bad this pay-
ment of a large sum of money on account of Kakirawa
and the Awa-o-te-Atua would not have been made.
14. The Natives disapproves exceedingly of the return
of Mr. Sutton by the Pakehas of Napier as a member to
fill the seat of the late Sir Donald McLean. The Maoris
of Hawke's Bay can place no reliance on the services of a
man who has worked them so great evil, and the meeting
desires that the words of Mr. Sutton in Parliament may
not be listened to, and further that the members from all
parts may make enquiry into the reasons why such a man
as Mr. Sutton has been returned to fill the seat of the late
Sir Donald McLean.
15. The meeting approves of the action of the people
of Ngatahira in withholding that place from Mr. Sutton ;
and the meeting desires that the Government and the
Parliament will not support Mr. Sutton in this great wrong
inflicted on the Maori people in the sacred name of the
law.
16. The meeting offers its tribute of praise to Sir
George Grey for his energetic action on behalf of the
Maori people, and also to those members who supported
him in watching and carrying out Native matters in the
Parliament.
17. Let the Maori people withhold their censure or
approval of this new Government until they see whether
their measures be good or bad, that it may not be said the
Maoris are blindly supporting or condemning the Govern-
ment without reason.
18. Let this meeting appoint a committee of chiefs to
watch over matters which affect the Maori race, and also
to determine where the meeting shall be held next year.
19. It is proper and highly desirable, in our opinion,
that the tribes of New Zealand should be united as one
people, and that we should assemble ourselves, and see
whether, and discuss our grievances together ; also that
we should select proper subjects to be sent to the great
Parliament of this colony for its consideration.
20. Let all the chiefs of the tribes unite to put down
the practice of drinking spirituous liquors, and let the
Parliament pass an Act making it a criminal offence to
carry intoxicating liquors to Native settlements.
Before the meeting proceeded to consider the resolu-
tions laid before it, Noa Te Hianga offered up a prayer to
Almighty God, asking the guidance and instruction
from God to be given to the meeting, so that the meeting
would be enabled to consider the subjects laid before it in
a calm and clear light.
The Chairman read the subjects which wore considered
by the meeting which took place at Pakowhai during last
year, which are as follow :
Subject 1. That we openly and steadfastly declare our
obedience to the Queen of England as our Queen, and
that we truthfully publish our determination to fulfil,
and submit to, and at all times to obey her laws.
Subject 2. We think that the act of making the tribes of
these Islands one, will be a just and good act. And
that we assemble, and see each other, and that we dis-
cuss subjects relative to those matters of which we
complain, and that we select and put into respectful
language our wishes, to be laid before the Parliament
of New Zealand, for their favourable consideration.
Subject 3. We say that it is desirable that a meeting of
Chiefs should take place each year, to consider all sub-
jects or matters in which the Maori race is concerned,
and to consider the evils under which we now labor,
and to put into respectful language all subjects which
our members may lay before the Parliament of New
Zealand. The assembly of chiefs each year, shall de-
termine where the meeting shall be held each year
following.
Subject 4. We will select those men who may be willing
to act as a Committee to carry out all those matters
implied in subjects Nos. 2 and 3 above.
Subject 5. We propose to repeal the existing law respect-
ing Maori members of the New Zealand Parliament,
viz., the law which allows few members into Parlia-
ment, for five years only. Let a new law be passed,
one that shall be permanent, giving the Maori people
the same number of members in accordance with the
number of the population, as that given to the Euro-
peans in proportion to the European population. And
that the present boundaries of the district in which the
Maori people vote, shall be done away with, and that
the boundaries of the district dividing the people of
the Generic tribes be given instead of the boundaries of
the now electoral districts.
Subject 6. We are of the opinion that the manner of pur-
chasing land in accordance with the regulation now in
force, is evil, and the cause of much confusion, and
that all land purchasing under such regulations
should cease. That land should not be bought in
unalienated districts. That not till a majority of the
Maori people have consented, shall land be surveyed
or put into the Native Lands Court. And not till a
majority shall have given their consent shall land be
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surveyed, put into the Native Lands Court, or sold.
And in all districts where the consent gas not been
given to the land being sold, in no case shall money be
paid in advance for land in such district to those Natives
who claim the land in such district. That Government
officers shall not, without authority, or invitation from
the majority of the Natives, go into Native districts,
and annoy by requesting the Natives to put their lands
through the Native Lands Court, and to sell them. Let
the Natives use their own discretion as to the survey, or
passing them through the Native Lands Court.
Subject 7. We think the law which enables the Govern-
ment to withhold those Native lands (being private
property of the Maori people) from purchase by private
Europeans, must be repealed.
Subject 8. We think that the laws by which the Native
Lands Court was instituted, and by which it now
exercises ita power, must be repealed, and that the
Parliament of New Zealand enact a new law. one which
18 not marred by ambiguity or contradictions, and by
which the Maori lauds can be fully investigated, and
correctly settled. And that such new law shall em-
power the Adjudicators of the Native Lands Court to
hold the same power as the Magistrates of the other
Courts. And that the Government shall not have any
control over such Adjudicators of the Native Lands
Court.
Subject 9. We assert that the present Government, which
was put into power in the year 1869, is a bad Govern-
ment, it does not do anything correctly. It has not
done any good work for the Maori people. Let the
Parliament put this Government out of power.
Subject 10. That we forward a respectful petition to our
Queen, asking her to send a true-speaking man, one
who acts with justice, who shall investigate; the cause ;
of our wrongs, and to take our evidence, and forward ;
it to our Queen.
Subject 11. We say that the election of the Maori member
for the East Coast Electoral District be not set aside,
or acted on as illegal. But let the Government officers
alone be condemned for this act, and put out of their
offices.
Karauria said,I agree to all the propositions considered
by the meeting of last year, which were forwarded to the
Parliament. I also say, let there be an equal number of
Maori members with those of the European members in
Parliament. That there also be two distinct lines of
action to be taken by the Native Lands Court, viz., that
disputed lands be taken before the Court, but unsold lands
be left alone.
Henare Matua said, my thoughts consent to the sub-
jects discussed at the Pakowhai meeting last year, and I
also propose that those subjects be forwarded again to the
Parliament for its consideration, because the Parliament
have not informed the Native tribes what action the Par-
liament have taken in regard to them. When we have been
informed (of the action the Parliament) has taken was
can then propose and consider new subjects.
Renata Kawepo said, I propose that the subjects
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Wiremu te Ota said : Let the eleven subjects discussed
by the meeting at Pakowhai be sent back to the Parlia-
ment. The answers to these subjects are not clear.
There is not any good seen as yet. Hence I say send
them back To the Parliament, and do not let any new pro-
positions be discussed by us, but let us keep to those, and
let us see what action will be taken to mislead us. When
they (the propositions) have been fully answered, then
let us cease to act in respect to them.
Tuwhawhakia te Rangi said : I say let the propositions
which were discussed by the meeting at Pakowhai be re-
turned to the Parliament. I am pleased with these propo-
sitions, as they are our own. I say, let us see how the
Government will act in regard to them. Those proposi-
tions emenated from us only, and they are our very acts.
Let them be sent to the Parliament.
discussed by the meeting at Pakowhai. I have not
thought of any other propositions. Let them be sent to
the Parliament in this year, 1877.
Pirimona Te Urukahika said : Be strong, very strong,
to send these propositions to the Parliament, and when
clear answers are received for them then let us discuss
other new propositions. I say, send the eleven subjects
back to the Parliament. If the Parliament had considered
some of those subjects sent to them from the meeting at
Pakowhai, and had answered them, we should have sent
those hack which they had not answered. I propose that
we send those subjects back to the Parliament. The
answer of the Government to those subjects is like the
vine that twists itself around a tree, or like an eel when
caught is put in a bundle with a string through its gills :
it then writhes about, and evil is the end. Hence, I say,
let those eleven proposals be sent to the Parliament.
(To be Continued.)
TE PAREMATA.
WHARE PAREMATA.
TE RUNANGA ARIKI.
MANE, OKETOPA, 30,1876.
NGA WHENUA I TAURANGA.
HE mea ui o Kawana Kerei ki te Kawanatanga mo nga
tikanga mo nga whenua o Tauranga. He roa hoki no te
taaringa a Kawana Kerei kia kitea mai te Minita Maori ki
te Paremata nei, a na te mate turoro pea ona o te Minita
Maori i kore ai e kitea ki te Paremata. Koia aia a
Kawana Kerei i mea ai, he tino korero nga korero mo
taua mea e uia nei, koiri aia i ki ai, kana e waiho taua
korero nei, kia korerotia a te tuunga o te Paremata a tera
tau. I nga ra ona o Kawana Kerei e Kawana ana he nui
nga whenua i kiia kia riro i te rau o te patu i Taurunga, a
he nui noa atu nga whenua i kiia eia e Kawana Kerei, hei
whenua rahui aua whenua mo nga mea ki te taha Maori.
A e mea ana tana whakaaaro, he mea mohio a rongo
korero eia, ko etahi wahi o aua whenua i rahuitia nei eia
e Kawana Kerei mo nga mahi Maori, kua riro i te hoko e
etahi o nga Apiha o te Tari Maori. A e mea ana ano hoki
aia a Kawana Kerei, ki te mea e kore e mahia he mahi e
mutu ai te hoko o aua whenua rahui, penei, e kore e toe
he whenua ma nga Maori. E mea atu ana aia ki te
Kawanatanga, kia whakaae te Kawanatanga kia kaua e
mahia he mahi e riro ai nga whenua rahui i Tauranga, i
nga ra o te Paremata e kore nei e mahi, a kia tu ano te
Paremata a tera tau, ka korero ano aia a Kawana Kerei ki
te Paremata mo aua whenua rahui i Tauranga.
Ka mea a Meiha Atikina, ka whakaae atu nei ano aia ki
te kupu a Kawana Kerei, a e kore e whakaaetia kia mahi
hoku te Maori i aua whenua rahui ki nga Apiha o te Tar;
Maori. Otiia, e koro aia a Te Atikina e mea, e mutu te
hoko a te Pakeha Maori i aua whenua rahui, otiia, me uiui
eia e Te Atikina kia mohio ai aia ki te tikanga o aua mea.
Kahore kau ana a Te Atikina mohio ki aua whenua rahui.
I te mea hoki ki ano aia i akoakona ki aua whenua rahui.
Ue mea ano pea ia, he mea tuku ana whenua ma aua
Maori, kia hokona aua whenua e aua Maori. Otiia, ki te
mea ka kiie e te whakaaro, ana rapurapua eia e Te Atikina,
e raru nga Maori ana hokona aua whenua rahui, penei,
inana ma Te Atikina e mea kia kaua aua whenua e hokona.
E whakaae pu ana aia a Te Atikina ki nga kupu i
whakapuaki na nei, a e pai atu aua aia kia Kawana Kerei,
mona i korero nei mo aua whenua rahui i Tauranga.
ROERA HAKIKI.
Ka mea a Hoani Nahe, he ui tana ki te Kawanatanga,
ka whakamanaa ranei e ratou te kupu i whakataua e te
Komiti rapurapu i nga mea ki te taha ki te Maori mo te
Pitihana a Roera Hukiki, me ana hoa. He tono na Hukiki
ma kia whakawakia tua-ruatia te whenua i Ngaroha. I
rapurapua taua mea nei e te Komiti, a i mea te Komiti he
pohehe pea te take i puta ai he kupu mo taua whenua, na
reira te Komiti i mea ai me rapurapu nga tikanga o taua
mea nei e te Kawanatanga.
Ka mea a Te Witika, e whakaae ana te Kawanatanga
kia rapurapua nga tikanga o taua mea nei, i enei ra nei
ano.—
Koia nei te kupu a te Komiti mo te Pitihana a Koera
Hukiki ma : —
Ko TE KUPU A TE KOMITI MO RUNGA I TE PUKAPUKA-INOI
A KOEKA HUKIKI ME ONA HOA E 2.— E ki ana nga kai-
inoi i whakataua e te Kooti Whakawa Whenua Maori i te
21 o Maehe, 1874, ki Otaki, tetahi kupu mo tetahi whenua
a kohore ratou i marama ki taua whakataunga, a tono ana
ratou i roto i te wa i whakaritea e te ture kia whakawakia
tuaruatia, engari na tetahi he i roto i nga pukapuka na
tetahi pohehe pea a nga Apiha a te Kawanatanga i kore
ai e whakaaetia taua whakawa tuarua. E ki ana
nga kai-inoi he tangata hapai tonu ratou i te ture o tua
iho, a ka nui ta ratou tohe kia whakawakia tuaruatia
tana whenua, a ma ratou e utu nga utu katoa o te whaka-
wakanga, a mehemea ka tukua tetahi takiwa mo ratou
kia ahei ai ratou ki te whakatuturu i to ratou tika ka
whakaaetia e ratou ka hapainga e ratou te whakataunga
o te Kooti.
Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei atu ki te Whare :—
Ko te tino mea e kimihia i rotu i tenei pukapuka-inoi he
titiro mehemea i puta he tono nui ratou, i roto i te wa e
wkakaritea ana e te ture, kia whakawakia tuaruatia ta
ratou tono ki te whenua i whakahuatia i roto i te puka-
puka-inoi.
Kahore i whai takiwa nga kai-inoi ki te whakapuaki
kupu mo runga i taua tono a ratou e whakahuatia nei e
ratou otiia kahore e marama ana i runga i nga kupu i
whakapuakino ki te aroaro o te Komiti kahoro taua tono i
whakaputaina.
E whakaaro ana te Komiti ma te Kawanatanga tenei
mea e kimi i te mutunga o te Runanga a mehemea ka
kitea i tino tae atu taua tono ka ahei te Kawanatanga ki
te whakaae kia whakawakia tuaruatia mehemea ia e
marama ana kia ratou kia whakaaetia.
(HOANI PARAIHI)
JOHN BRYCE.
Tumuaki.
Oketopa 24. 1876.
TE PITIHANA A NGAPUHI.
Ka mea a Te Hiana. Me ui eia me ui noaiho, kaua e
panuitia tana patai ki te pukapuka Motini. He ui tana
ki Te Kawanatanga, mehemea e whakamanaa ranei e Te
Kawanatanga, te kupu i whakataua e Te Komiti rapu rapu
i nga tikanga ki te raha Maori, mo te Pitihana a Ngapuhi
i tuku mai ai ki te Paremata nei. Mo te kupu tuatahi a
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Ngapuhi i tono ai, he kupu mo te Ture Huuri. I mea Te 1
Komiti, he pai kia kiia e Te Kawanatanga he mana e ma-
hia ai, a e rite ai he tikanga hei whakatu i nga pukapuka
ingoa o nga Maori hei Huuri e tu ai nga Huuri Maori hei
Huuri, mo nga whakawa e whakawakia ai te Maori. Te
tua rua o nga kupu a Ngapuhi, he mea kia tukua he pau-
ra ma nga Maori, hei pupuhi manu. E mea ana ia ;,
Te Hiana, e he ana pea kia mau tonu te kupu whakakaho-
re i te paura ma te Maori. He kupu amu amu ano ta nga
Maori o nga takiwa kihai nei nga tangata o aua takiwa i ,
haere ke ia Te Kuini. A e mea ana nga Maori kaua e
whakakahoretia he paura ma nga Maori e mau tonu ana
kia Te Kuini. E ui ana aia a Te Hiana, e kore ranei te
Kawanatanga e pai kia tuku tukua iho nga Ture whaka-
kahore i te hoko paura ki te Maori e mau tonu ana ta
ratou mana kia Te Kuini ?
Ka mea a Meiha Atikina. Ma Te Kawanatanga e ata
titiro nga Ture mo tenei mea mo Te Huuri. E kore e
tika kia whakaae tuturu atu aia ki te kupu mo nga paura
no te mea he tino tikanga te tikanga e kiia ai taua mea te
paura. He mea hoki, kua korero te Minita Maori, a i mea
te Minita Maori, he nui noa atu nga tikanga nui, e mohio-
tia ai te paura kia whakaaetia hei hoko ma te Maori. A
ki te mea ka kiia to paura kia hokona o Te Maori o tetahi
takiwa, me whakaae ano hoki kia hokona te paura e nga
Maori katoa o nga motu katoa nei. E mohio nua rua a Te
Hiana, ki nga tikanga e whanaunga ana nga iwi Maori
kia ratou iwi Maori, a ki te mea ka whakaaetia te paura
kia riro i etahi iwi, me riro i nga iwi katoa. E mea ana
aia a Meiha Atikina, e kore pea taua kupu whakaae kia
hokona noatia te paura e te Maori, e whakaaetia wawetia.
Ka mea a TeAnaru. Ki ta tana titiro i mohio ai, e
ahua mana kore ana te Ture whakakahore i te hoko paura
ki te Maori, a kua ahua mana kore nga kupu a taua Ture
mo te paura kia kore e hokona e te Maori. E mohio ana
ai i te wa e whawhai ana, ma te Maori e hoko mai he
paura ma te Pakeha. E kore e riro noa mai re paura i te
Pakeha ani rapua ki o te Ture tikanga.
PARLIAMENTARY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1876.
TAURANGA NATIVE LAND.
about the reserves, as they had never previously been
brought under his notice. It was possible they might
have been given to the Natives for the purpose of being
sold : but if, after inquiry, it should be found injurious to
Natives to sell these reserves, he would take care that
they were not sold. He would give the honorable gentle-
man a general promise to that effect, and would at the
same time say that he felt very much obliged to him for
bringing the matter under his notice.
ROERA HUKIKI.
Mr. NAHE asked the Government, If they will give
effect to the report of the Native affairs Committee on the
petition of Roera Hukiki and others? The petitioners
stated that they had applied for a rehearing of the case
with regard to a block called Ngaroha. The Committee
considered the matter, and thought then was perhaps
some mistake about it, ami therefore recommended that
tile Government should make inquiry.
Mr. WHITAKER might state, on the part of the Govern-
ment, that inquiry would be made at once.
REPORT ON PETITION of ROERA HUKIKI and 2 Others.
The petitioners allege that on the 21st of March, 1874.
a judgment was delivered by the Native Land Court at
Otaki, with which they were dissatisfied, and that they
made an application for a rehearing within the period
prescribed by law : but that, owing to some error in the
official records or misconception on the part of officials of
the Government, a rehearing has not been ordered. The
petitioners state that they have been and are law-abiding
subjects, that they earnestly desire a rehearing of their
case, that they are willing to bear all the necessary ex-
penses of such rehearing, and that, after an opportunity
has been afforded them of proving their case, they will
accept and abide by the decision of the Court.
I am directed to report as follows :—That the main
question raised by the petitioners is, whether or not ap-
plication for a rehearing of their claim to the block of
land mentioned in the petition was duly made within the
time limited by law.
The petitioners have not had an opportunity of giving
evidence as to the making of their application in proper
time as alleged by them, while at the same time the evi-
dence taken by the Committee does net clearly make out
that no such application was made.
The Committee would recommend that the Government
should cause inquiry to be made into this point during
the recess, when, if it be ascertained that such application
was duly made, it will be in the power of the Government
to comply with the request for a rehearing if they deem
it desirable to do so.
JOHN BRYCE.
Chairman.
24th October, 1876.
NGAPUHI PETITION.