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Te Wananga 1874-1878: Volume 5, Number 41. 12 October 1878 |
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TE WANANGA.
HE PANUITANGA TENA KIA KITE KOUTOU.
"TIHE MAURI-ORA."
NAMA 41. NEPIA, HATAREI, OKETOPA 12,1878. PUKAPUKA 5.
PANUITANGA. PANUITANGA,
KIA KITE! KIA KITE !
I A RENETI MA,
KUA HOKI MAI A RENETI KI NEPIA NEI,
A he tini noa atu aana
Koti, Tarautete, Wekete,
Potae, Kiapa
Kaone, Paraikete, Raka,
Me nga tini mea katoa e paingia e te Maori.
HAERE MAI KIA KITE
I te whare Hoko a
RENETI MA.,
Kei tawahi ake o io Kooti Whakawa Tawhito
i Nepia,
I TE HEKIPIA RORI.
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KIA MOHIO KOUTOU, E NGA IWI
MAORl.
Kua tu ano i au
TAKU TOA HOKO MEA RINO,
Kei tawahi ake o te
TARI O TE WANANGA, I NEPIA.
Ko ahau te tangata tautawhito o Nepia, a naku te
timatanga mahi hoko i nga mea rino
ki te iwi.
Naumai e te Iwi, Maere Mai
ano ki au Hoko ai
KIA
PAIRINI MA,
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TE WANANGA.
PANUITANGA.
RARAKA RAUA KO PARAHI,
KAI HOKO RINO,
(Na Pairani i Mua).
KUA TAE MAI I INGARANGI—
39 Pu tupara
30 Hakimana
14 Tupara puru, puru atu i te kake
3 Hakimana puru atu i te kake
20 Pouaka paura pupuhi manu
2 Tana Hota.
He Paraihe Paura, he Paraihe Hota, he Okaoka Pu, he
Okaoka Horoi Pu, he Whakawiri Nipa Pu, he Pounamu Hinu
Pu, he Pouaka Takotonga Kiapa Pu, he Takawe Pu, he Kuku
Mata Pu, he Whakapura mo te Pu ana purua, me nga tini
mea atu mo te Pu.
He-tino mea pai aua mea nei, a e hara i te mea tino nui te
utu. 73
NEI TAKU PANUI KI NGA IWI MAORI
KATOA.
NGA ra oku e korero ai ki nga Maori i taku Tari i
Nepia, ko Te Mane, ko Te Weneti, ko Te
Paraire, o ngu wiki katoa.
NA TE RIIHI,
91 Roia, Nepia.
Panuitanga ki nga iwi katoa! katoa !
Katoa ! o Aotearoa, o Wairarapa, Tara-
naki, Ahuriri, Taupo, me Turanga
katoa.
HE mea atu tenei kia rongo koutou, kaua te mea
. kotahi e koutou e tuhituhi i a koutou ingoa,
ki te pukapuka hoko whenua ranei, ki te Rihi whenua
ranei, ki te mokete whenua ranei, ki etahi tikanga
ranei e pa ana ki te whenua. Maatua haere mai
koutou ki au, a kia mohio koutou, hei muri te matau
e puta, ai nao anu mahi. Naku na,
TE RIIHI,
58 Koia i Nepia.
HE PANUITANGA KI TE IWI MAORI.
KO te utu ino te WANANGA i te tau, kotahi pauna
e rua hereni me te hikipene.
NOTICE.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the WANANGA newspaper
O per year, Ł1 2s 6d, by post.
Panuitanga ki nga iwi Maori katoa.
HE mea atu tenei naku na TE A. W. PAROMAPIRA, kia
mahia e ahau e Te Roia i Kihipene nga mahi ma te
Maori, 'Maku e ata mahi pai, te mahi ana tukua mai ki au.
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PANUI KI TE AO KATOA.
Te Arawa
HATAREI, OKETOPA 12, 1878.
HE whakaae pu na matou ki nga kupu a Te Paika
i korero ai ki te Paremata, mo te pira pooti a te iwi,
koia matou i mea ai, he mea pai kia taia nuitia aua
korero ana. Be korero aua korero na te Pakeha
mema o Te Waipounamu, a ki ta matou titiro, he
tino korero tika rawa atu taua korero a Te Paika, i
nga korero katoa i kiia i te Paremata mo taua pira
pooti a te iwi. He mea hoki na matou, kia kite nga
iwi Maori, he nui nga Pakeha e rapu ana i te pai
ma nga iwi Maori, ahakoa he iti te mohio a aua
Pakeha ki te iwi Maori, e mohio ana ano aua
Pakeha, ki te titiro i te mate a te iwi Maori, a e
mohio ana ano koki ki te korero i nga mea e ora ai
te iwi Maori. Koia nei nga kupu a Te Paika :—
"Ko taku tino mea tenei i mohio i roto i au, a he
mea naku no mua iho ano, ko te tino tikanga e
mahi ai te Kawanatanga, me te iwi katoa, he rapu i
te mea e iwi kotahi ai te Maori me te Pakeha, a te
take i puta ai taua mea nei, maatua mahia nga tika-
nga katoa kia mahia e te Maori, a ki te mea e kore
e whakaaetia nga tikanga mahi katoa a te Pakeha e
mahi ai, kia mahia e te Maori, penei, he takahi ta
tatou i te iwi Maori, a he mea na tatou, he iwi
hangahanga noa iho te Maori, a e kore te pai e puta
i taua tu mahi takahi a tatou i nga iwi Maori, a ma
reira e tupu tonu ai te raruraru a nga tau e haere
ake nei, a e pera me nga raruraru o nga tau kua
pahure nei. He mea naku, ki te mea ka kiia e tatou
kia mahi te Maori i nga Ture, a kia mana aua Ture
i te Maori, heoi ra, me mahi e tatou kia tu rite te
Maori i nga mahi katoa ki te Pakeha A e mea
ana ahau, ko te mea tino nui rawa a te iwi Pakeha
e koa ai, ara, ko te mea e kiia nei, ko te tino mahi
nui, ko nga mema Maori kua tu nei hei mema mo
te Paremata nei. Kahore kau he whenua ke atu
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TE WANANGA.
Te Wananga,
Published every Saturday
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1878.
WE so fully endorse the whole of the .following
quotation from the speech which was delivered in
the New Zealand Parliament a few days ago by Mr.
Pyke on the Maori vote, that we do not deem it our
duty to apologise for giving so full an extract. It is
the speech of a man from the far South of the
Middle Island, and is. in our opinion, the fairest
and most judicious speech made in the course of the
debate. We feel that it will do good as showing
our Maori people that there are many Europeans
who, while knowing nothing from personal experi-
ence of the Maori question, are still willing and
able to consider such question for themselves, and
to come to just and fair conclusions.
" I have always maintained that the great object
which should be steadily kept in view by the Par-
liament and the Government is the welding together
as one people of the Maroi and European races.
This can only be done by extending to the Maoris
all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the Euro-
peans. To do less, to refuse this, is to treat the
Natives as an inferior people, a course from which
no good can ever accrue, though much harm may
result from such action in the future, as it un-
doubtedly has in the past. Above all things, they
should be placed on an equal footing if we expect
them to conform to our customs and to obey our
laws. If there is one thing of which, more than
any other, the people of New Zealand has a right
to be proud, it is the presence of Native members
in its Parliament. In no other country in the
world, and in no other portion of Her Majesty's
dominions has the experiment been tried as it has
been tried here of granting to the Native race the
electoral franchise and the privilege of sitting in
Parliament; and who will venture to deny that the
experiment has been a success.
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TE WANANGA.
to an equal position to our own, and teach them 1
that our interests are identical with theirs. There
can be no real amity between the races till this is
done, and this measure is a step towards the desired
result. If population is to be the future basis of
representation, then are the Maoris under-repre-
sented now. I believe that exclusive of the King
Natives they now muster 40,000, which, taking
5000 as the unit of representation, would entitle
them to eight members. Then, sir, the Ministers
declare that their policy necessitates the extension
of the franchise, and 1 am satisfied with that assur-
ance to support the present proposal. I have no
dread of thereby causing the terrible calamities pre-
dicted by its opponents. It is only a freehold and
a ratepaying franchise that is asked for, and the
latter can only be exercised when the rates have
been paid. 1 cannot see any objection to this, and
I shall therefore vote for the Maoris being placed on
the electoral roll subject to those conditions. And
at all times and seasons, so long as I am a member
of this House, I will support the extension to them
of every right and privilege possessed by the Euro-
peans, conditionally on their being also subject to
the same liabilities."
NGA KORERO A TE HIANA TE MINITA MAORI KI
TE PAREMATA MO NGA TIKANGA KI TE TAHA
MAORI.
Te Hiana : E hoa e Te Tumuaki, i te mea ki ano koe i
kii, kia korerotia nga korero noa iho e korero ai te Pare-
mata nei, me korero e ahau aku korero mo nga mea ki te
taha Maori. E hara taku tu e tu atu nei, i te tu tangata
ora, • ahua turoro ana ahau, otiia waiho ma te tika o te
mahi ahau e kaha ai ki te korero. E hara i te mea hei
miharo ma te Paremata nei aku kupu ka kii nei, i te mea
hoki kua mutu te pouri kua whiti te ra, a e noho pai ana
nga iwi o te motu nei. A ka korero pono ahau i nga mea
e mahia ana ki te taha Maori. A e mea ana ahau kia mahia
he mahi e tupu nui ai te Maori ki to te Pakeha ahua mahi,
a e mea ana ahau, kia oti aku korero ka whakaaetia aku
kupu me aku tikanga e koutou. E hara i te mea, i penei
he tikanga korero a nga Minita Maori i mua, katahi nei ki
an, ka korerotia nga mea ki te taha Maori ki te Paremata
nei, i te mea i mua, he mea korero kau e te Minita Maori,
nga moni i pau i nga mahi Maori, a ko nga tikanga o te
mahi i kore e korerotia eia. K mea ana ahau, ki te mea ka
korerotia nga mea ki te taha Maori, me whaaki e ahau nga
mea katoa, kia mohio ai te iwi ki te tikanga o nga mahi e
mahia ana mo ratou ki te taha Maori. He mea hoki naku,
kia kiia e ahau ta matou mahi mo te taha Maori, kia mo-
hio ai koutou, ki ta matou mahi, a ko matou ko te Kawa-
natanga a Kawana Kerei, te Kawanatanga mohio ki te
whakahaere tika i nga mea mo te taha Maori. A kia tino
whaaki ahau i nga mea katoa kia koutou, kia rite ai ta
koutou mohio ki nga mea e mahia ana ki te taha Maori,
ki taku mohio e mohio nei ahau ki aua mea. A kia mata-
tau ta koutou titiro ki nga mahi Maori i nga ra ki ano ma-
tou i tu noa hei Kawanatanga. He mea hoki, kahore kau
he pai i aua a ra. A kahore kau he kupu atu ranei, he kupu
mai ranei o nga iwi o Waikato i aua ra ki te Kawanatanga
tawhito i toua atu o matou i tu nei hei Kawanatanga.
He mea hoki na nga iwi Maori, kahore kau be tikanga e
korero noa ai te korero ki aua iwi, a me waiho aua wahi
Kia noho moke noa iho. A e kore hoki e taea e ahau i
enei korero ka korero nei ahau, te whaaki nga tikanga o
te ahua o te mahi hoko whenua a te Kawanatanga ta-
whito. He mea hoki, kahore kau he tikanga, he hoko
poauau noa iho, he mea hoki, he hoko mutunga kore te
hoko i aua ra, kahore hoki i tino ata tae ki te otinga, a he
mea tetahi, na te Maori i kii kia mutu te mahi ruuri whe-
nua, a ko te mahi Teihana ruuri i mutu ano hoki i te
Maori. A kahore he mea i tu ai te Kooti Whakawa Whe-
nua Maori i etahi takiwa Maori. A i Maketu i Hauraki,
i kiia kia kaua te Kooti e tu i reira. A i mea te Kooti
kia kaua te Kooti e tu i aua wahi. A ko nga whenua i
Taranaki nga mea i riro mo te he, kahore kau he mahi i
mahia e te Kawanatanga kia nohoia era e te Pakeha, a i
mea nga Maori, kia riro ano aua whenua ia ratou, a i
mahi riihi aua Maori i aua whenua ki etahi Pakeha. A i
au i aua wahi, i kite ahau i te Pakeha e whiu kau ana ki
aua whenua. A i ki taua Pakeha, na te Maori aia i ki kia
nohoia aua whenua e ia, a he mea tamana taua Pakeha ki
te Kooti, a he ana, mutu ana tana noho i aua whenua. A
he tini nga he kihai i whakawakia, he kore kaha hoki no
te Kawanatanga tawhito. A i aua ra, kahore kau he noho
pai a te iwi Maori, he nui hoki no nga take amuamu, he
kore hoki no te Maori e whakapono ki a te Kawanatanga
kupu, a he kore no te Maori e mohio ki nga mahi o aua ra,
a he kore no te Maori e tino aro mai ki te tika me te pai o
te mahi a te Paremata nei, te take i pera ai te Maori ki te
Paremata nei, he nui no te hoko whenua a etahi tino
Apiha a te Kawanatanga i te whenua ma ratou ake ano.
A i te wa e kiia ana e hoko whenua ana aua Apiha ma te
Kawanatanga, e hoko whenua ana aua Apiha ma ratou
ake ko a ratou hoa. A tetahi he, ko te hoko raruraru a
etahi Pakeha i nga whenua Maori. a ko te mahi hoko a
aua Pakeha, e ahua penei ana me te mahi kohuru kia Te
Kuini, koia ahau i mea ai, i enei ra kua kore aua tikanga,
a kua pai. A i te wa i tu ai matou hei Kawanatanga, i
mea matou, me kite matou i nga Maori, a me kite ano
hoki matou i nga mea e amuamu nei te Maori, koia ma-
tou i haere ai ki nga kainga Maori katoa o etahi takiwa o
ngamotu nei, a kua kite ahau i nga Maori o te Reinga
mai ra ano a Kaiapoi atu ra ano, a kua rongo ahau i nga
mea e he nei te Maori, koia ahau i mea ai kua pai te
Maori ki te Kawanatanga me te Paremata nei.
He nui noa atunga take e amuamu ai te Maori, a me
korero e ahau tetahi, he korero mo Ngatitoa i Whakatu
Ka rua tekau ma whitu tau o te kupu whakaae a to
Kawanatanga i tu ai, kia hoatu te 5000 eka whenua ma
Ngatitoa, a kahore ano taua kupu i oti noa, a ko te hunga
i kiia ai taua 5000 mano eka ma ratou, kua mate te nuinga,
a kahore ano taua whenua i tukua ma ratou, a ki te mea
ka waiho taua kupu whakaae kia tau noa iho, penei, e
kore e roa ka mate katoa taua hunga, a e kore te whenua
e riro i a ratou. Koia ra te take o etahi amuamu a te
Maori, a e mahia ana aua mea e ahau kia tae ki te otinga,
kia puta tika ai te kupu whakaae a te Kawanatanga ki
aua tangata. A, ahakoa he kupu whakaae na te Kawana-
tanga i tuhituhia ranei ki te pukapuka, i kiia kautia ranei
e te ngutu, ka maua i au aua kupu, ana kitea e ahau te
tika o aua kupu, he mea hoki naku, ko te mana tapu, ko
te tika kia puta i a tatou, a o kore e pai kia waiho ko te
kupu i kiia kahakoretia kia kore e mana, me mana katoa
nga kupu i whakaaetia e te Kawanatanga. He hopohopo
pea na Te Makarini ki te mahi i ana mea i whakaae ai.
A ko te hoko whenua, kihai i ata kawea ki te otinga, a me
korero ahau i tetahi. I tera tunga o te Paremata, i konei
te kai hoko whenua a te Kawanatanga o Hauraki, a i muri
ona, i mahia hetia ai nga whenua i Hauraki, e hara i a ia
te he, otira, na te Kawanatanga te he ki te pupuri roa i a
ia i konei noho ai E mea ana ahau, me korero ahau i
nga Maori, i te nui haere ranei o ratou, i te iti haere ranei.
I mea atu ahau i tera tau e ahua mohiotia ana, e wha
tekau ma ono mano Maori o nga motu nei, a e kiia ana
kua nuku ke atu te maha o te Maori i tenei tau. E mea
ana ahau e iti haere ana te maha o te iwi Maori, a ki te
mea kahore be tikanga hei whakakaha i te iwi, e kore e
roa ka tino kore rawa atu te Maori, i te mea he nui te
matemate o te iwi i nga tini mate e pa nei ki te tangata.
1 He mea hoki naku, ko te iwi i Tokerau, i Mangonui, i
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TE WANANGA.
Whangarei, i Kaipara, i Tauranga, i Maketu, e it
haere ana, i te tau 1874, 16,441, te iwi, a i te
tau 1873 14,475, te iwi, a 1,966 o te iwi kua mate.
He maha ke nga taane, he iti nga wahine, a e kore
e ora te iwi ana iti nga wahine. Me korero e ahau te
take i mate mate ai te Maori. He kai waipiro tetahi, ara
he haurangi no te iwi katoa, a he mate no nga tamariki i
1« kai kore ma ratou, i nga wa e haurangi ai nga matua.
A tetahi take be kino no nga whare, he noho "huihui no
te iwi. E mea ana ahau, me noho penei te Maori me te
Pakeha ka ora ai te Maori, ara me noho motuhake aia ropu
aia ropu, aia tangata rae tana wahine, aia tangata me
tana wahine. E ki ana hoki te korero mai o Taupo e iti
haere ana te iwi i reira, he kino no te kai i mate mato ai,
kua tae mai te kupu a taku hoa a Rewi ki au. e mea ana,
ekore aia e pai ki nga kupu a Tiati Tamati, i te mea he
iwi kai nui te Maori, a ko te kii a Tamati e kii nei he iwi
ware, he iwi kai raihi. He iwi kai kore etahi o te Maori,
a ki te mea e kore te Maori e mahi i te kai pai mana, e kore
aia e roa ka ngaro. E kiia ana, he iwi kaha te awhekaihe,
he iwi e kore e mate mate e penei me te Maori, a he iwi
mohio, otira e kore ano pea e roa ka ahua turoro ano ratou
no te mea kua hoki hoki nua tangata ki te kainga Maori
noho ai. He nui te pai o te ahua hoki o te iwi Maori ki te
karakia ki te Atua pono. He nui noa atu te hiahia karakia
s te Maori, a kei te hanga whare karakia nga iwi katoa, a
e ahua mutu ana te karakia hauhau. E mea ana ahau, ma
te iwi ano ratou e pai atu ki te karakia. Na te mea he
whahatete karakia i te Mahia i pakaru ai te pauna i reira,
a na nga Maori te whenua i tu ai taua pauna. Ue nui ano
hoki te pai a te Maori ki te mahi Kuru Tepara, a kua iti
haere te kai waipiro a te Maori. A he kaha te tono a te
Maori ki te Kawanatanga kia mutu te kai waipiro a te
Maori, kia kore te waipiro e hokona i nga kainga Maori.
A kahore kau he haurangi i nga hui i Waitara i Waikato,
a he iwi ahua pai, ahua ora i te kai nga iwi i tae ki aua
hui. E mea ana ahau, kia tu he Ture, kia kore ai he wai-
piro e kawea ki nga kainga Maori, a kia kore he whare
paparakauhe i nga takiwa Maori Ko te iwi ahua kino i
nga Maori, ko te tangata kua mohio iti Ki te reo Pakeha,
he tangata haurangi taua tu tangata. A tetahi he, ka
akona, nga tamariki Maori, a ka mohio, a kahore kau he
mahi ma era i te Pakeha, a e mea ana ahau, me tu he tino
kura ako i nga mea katoa ki nga tamariki Maori, kia kore
ai e hoki ki nga mea Maori o mua. A e nui ana hoki te
hiahia o nga iwi o Waikato kia akona a ratou tamariki ki
nga mea Pakeha, a i tera wiki, i tukua te mokopuna a
Rewi ki te kura i Akarana, a e mea ana matou kia tu nga
tamariki mohio a te Maori ki te mahi Kawanatanga. He mea
hohi kua mahi te Maori i te whare waea, a he pai te mahi.
He nui nga Maori kua tae ki nga kura Pakeha, a he mea
tika kia tu te Maori i nga whakawa, e tu whaka-
wakia ai etahi o te iwi Maori. Ma ta tatou mahi
he i te Maori e kino ai te tu a te Maori. Na
ka korero ahau i te take e pooti ai te Maori. E mea ana
ahau kua tata nga ra e kotahi ai nga iwi e rua. A e kore
e roa, ka tu nga rangatira o Waikato hei mema ki te Pare-
mata. E mea ana ahau, ki te mea he whenua tuturu ake
ta te Maori, a e utu ana aia i te utu riiri, me pooti tera mo
nga mema Pakeha. Ka korero ahau i nga mea e pa ana
kia Tawhiao, he tika ano kia kiia e tatou, me mahi tika
tatou ki te Maori, a na nga iwi o Waikato ahau i tono kia
haere atu kia kite ia ratou, a na te mea ko Kawana Kerei
kua tu hei Kawanatanga, i ahua pai mai ai te Maori ki te
Kawanatanga. E wha hui i tu, a ko nga korero i kiia i
ana hui kua kitea ena e te Paremata nei, a kua ahua pai
te Maori ki aua korero, a he tino tangata a Rewi, a i mea
a Rewi kia mahia he tikanga e mutu ai nga raruraru, a na
te hui i Waitara i kitea ai te tikanga e mutu ai nga he. I
au i Hikurangi, i haere tahi mai i au te mokopuna a Po-
tatau, a tae noa mai ia ki Ngaruawahia, a i haere aia i to
tima, i te rerewe, i nga kainga Pakeha, a i mahi tahi
maua, ki te mea i nga he kia mutu a Ngatihaua, a Ngati-
raukawa, a he mahi uiui tonu ta Waikato kia maua ko
Kawana Kerei, a kua kotahi matou. A kua mahi aua iwi
i te ara atu i Waikato ki Whaingaroa. A no te weranga
o te whare toa a te Pakeha i Kawhia, na Tawhiao i mea
kia mahia ano he toa hou, a nei ake pea ka tu a Kawhia
hei waapu tuunga kaipuke mo te tini. A nei ano hoki
tenei, kua oti he tima ma nga iwi o Mokau, ko Hana Mo-
kau te ingoa, a e pa ana nga Maori o reira ki taua tima
Koianei nga kupu mo to whenua i Taranaki, i whakaae
ano a Rewi kia inaina ana whenua, koia na nga pai
o nga hui korero i kiia nei. A tetahi he roa noa atu te
wa i kore ai e tu te Kooti Whakawa Whenua i Maketu,.
a he raruraru na nga Maori i roa ai, i kiia ahau kia haere
ki reira, a i tae ahau, a oti ana te mahi. He nui ano hoki
te he i etahi wahi, ko nga Piriti i he, ko nga Rori i purua
na te ata mahi i oti ai ano hoki era. E hara taku i te
mea atu e kore e kiia he kupu whakahe kia matou mo aua
mahi, otira, e ata mahi tika aua matou i nga whenua katoa
kia takoto tika, a ahakoa ki etahi e he aua te mahi ruuri i
etahi o aua whenua, e mahia ana, a e kore e puta te kino.
I mea atu hoki ahau ki nga Maori o Waitotara, ki te mea
ka whakararua nga mahi ruuri e ratou, ko ratou ano e he
i te Ture. A ko Tapa te Waero te tangata i kiia nuitia ai
e au taku kupu. A i nga wa o tututu ai ana Maori, a ka
oma kia Te Whiti, e kore a Te Whiti e pai atu ki nua
Maori kua tututu, a e tae ana te whakawa ki aua Maori i
enei ra. A i nga ra o Te Waru i hoki ai ano ki tona kai-
nga,
te Waipounamu
Waikato
Waitara
NATIVE AFFAIRS STATEMENT.
Mr. SHEEHAN—Sir, before you call on the next order of
the day, I desire to inake that Statement of Native Affairs
which I promised last evening. In doing so I may say
I find that that divinity which doth hedge round the per-
sons of Royalty does not throw its protecting aegis over
Ministers of the Crown. I speak now under consider-
able physical difficulty; but if the House will grant mo
seine indulgence, I may be able to get up steam as I go
along. The time has passed when a statement oi Native
affairs can contain anything of a sensational character.
We have ceased to carry on au internecine war, and peace
ful settlement is now the ordinary condition of the coun-
try. But, although a statement made in these halcyon
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days may be wanting in material for sensational telegrams,
still, to all thoughtful men, a truthful account of our pre-
sent position, and the hope fairly put of raising the
Natives to the same scale as ourselves, will always, I
believe, meet with warm attention and approval. It has
not been usual to make a statement of Native affairs iu
this House. I believe I myself\_set the example last year.
Previous to that time what was called a Native Affairs
Statement was a dry record of the expenditure in land
transactions, with very complex tables, showing very
large apparent results, but results which I have found not
fortified by facts. I think a Native Statement, if made at
all, should be a political statement. I propose to inake
mine not only a history of our management of Native
affairs, but a vindication of our management, and an evi-
dence of our fitness to retain the management of Native
affairs to ourselves. I propose to-night, except in some
few special matters, to take the House into the fullest
possible confidence, and to give honorable members the
game information that I have myself. Before going into
details I shall ask the House to look back upon what was
the position of Native affairs wheti we came into office.
I say at once, unreservedly, that the position of the Native
question was very unsatisfactory indeed. In the first
place, negotiations with that large body of people, in what
is termed the King country, who for years were estranged
from us, had apparently ceased. The Natives seemed to
have given, them up, to have begun to look upon these
negotiations as unprofitable, and to have ceased to hope
that any settlement could be arrived at whereby that large
extent of country might be opened to European settlement
and enterprise. It would be impossible for me, within my
limits, to explain how the land-purchase system stood. It
was simply all adrift. All over the country large trans-
actions remained uncompleted, and the Government stood
a fair chance of losing three-quarters of the large sums
they had advanced on account for the purchase of Native
land. In various places the surveys were stopped by the
Natives, trigonometrical stations were pulled dawn, and
the surveyors themselves deprived of their instruments.
The Native Land Court could not sit in various parts of
the country. A third ineffectual attempt was made to
establish it at Maketu and at the Thames, when; we had
hundreds of thousands of acres awaiting investigation.
The Court advised us not to attempt to sit. Then, again,
ou the West Coast, all those large areas of fertile country
winch bad been taken iu payment for rebellion were al-
lowed to lie untouched so long that, in point of fact, the
original Maori owners began to think that wo had given
up the lands, and they were actually engaged in leasing
them to Europeans. When coming overland, returning
from my first visit to the West Coast, I met a European
driving a large herd of cattle on to the plains, and on
making inquiry I was informed that he was a European
who had negotiated with Titokowaru, or other Natives,
for a lease of the Waimate Plains, or a portion of them.
Shortly afterwards he received a summons from me for
trespass, which was upheld by the Court, and he was com-
pelled to give up occupation. Offences were allowed to
pass unpunished, and there was a lack of vigorous ad-
ministration, an appearance of a want of courage in the
administration of Native affairs, which had a most damag-
ing effect. Besides that, and arising from all those
causes, and from another cause to which I shall presently
refer, there was general discontent among the whole
body of the Native population. From ono end of the
island to the other there was a loss of confidence in the
Government there was a weakening of their faith in the
administration of affairs: and, above all, which is most
important to us, there was a want, of faith in the justice;
.and impartiality of this House. That discontent mainly
arose from the fact that for years past high officers of the
State, and subordinate officers,had been engaged in ac-
quiring Native lands for their own personal use and
benefit. While they were supposed to be acquiring an
estate for the colony, they were actually engaged In.
acquiring Native lands for their own personal benefit.
Then, again, to make matters still worse, we had all over
the country—sometimes not plainly seen, bat always
plainly felt—a most powerful opposition on the part o£
private land-buyers ; an opposition which, I do not hesi-
tate to say, at times approached very closely to the border-
line of treason ; an opposition which, if discovered and
traced home to the parties, would have led to some of
them being: brought before the Courts of law. Now I
think the House may fairly afford to congratulate itself
on the present state of affairs. The first conclusion to
which we came on taking office was that we would
adopt what would be a aeally face-to face policy,
a policy which would enable us to ascertain the
wants, the grievances, and the just complaints o£
the Native people in their own settlements and before
our own eyes. That policy we have carried out. I
have been in a position to visit every important settle-
ment in the North Island, from the North Cape to Cook
Strait, and to Kaiapoi in the South Island. I have met
the great bulk of the Native people, and have heard on
the spot what they had to complain of, and advised and
assisted them. I believe the result of my visits has been
to re-establish the confidence of the Natives in the Go-
vernment and Parliament. Many cases of grievances do
exist, and out of them I will give one case in point, which.
was dug out the other day by the honorable member for
the Southern Maori District. It will be remembered that
he asked a question in connection with the Ngatitoa
people, in the Nelson Province. Ou inquiry I found that
5000 acres were promised to them twenty-seven years ago,
but that up to this time that promise has been unredeemed.
Of the large tribe who were to get that land, only seven
people are now alive, and, as 1 told the House, if we chose.
to keep the question open for a few years longer there •
would be no one to claim the land. Depend upon it that
all these things have had the result of producing discon-
tent, which it is now our duty to remove. I have endea-
vored to carry out that policy. Whenever I found that
a promise had been given, even if unsupported by written
evidence, so long as there was fair verbal testimony, I.
have preferred to preserve the honor of the colony and
the Crown rather than take advantage of a legal quibble.
There does appear to have been a want of nerve in the
decision of matters after the death of Sir Donald M'Lean.
Native land purchases were practically left alone, and
matters which should have had careful attention did not
receive that attention. I shall give a case in illustration
of what I now say. Last session the gentleman who was
Land Purchase Commissioner in the Thames District—a
man in whose hands we then had half a million acres of
1 land under negotiation, for the acquisition af which we
had spent £00,000 or £70,0000—was kept down here ia.
Wellington every day of the session, waiting about for a
settlement of his claims, instead of being at his post at
the Thames looking after our interests and saving oar
hinds from spoliation at the hands of private people. I do
not blame him ; he could not carry on, because he had no
| money ; but I do think that, in such an important matter
I a settlement should have been come to at once. Ho
should have been sent back to do his work, or somebody
I should have been put in his place. Before taking up
some of these larger questions, I shall do as I did last
year. I shall, first of all, deal with the question of the
increase or decrease of the Maori population. In my pre-
vious statement, I informed the House that the Native
population in the year 1874.was about forty-six thousand.
This year, although the actual returns have not been com-
pleted, I understand the gross returns show a slight in-
crease. It is to this point that I shall particularly ask the
attention of the House. The increase, I shall show pre-
sently, is fallacious, and it arises from this fact : We only
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get absolutely correct returns from the settled districts, I
and the estimate o£ population in the remoter parts of the
colony has only been approximate. As the wave of
•civilisation advances—as our officers advance—our means
of seeing the people are greater, and we find that the
population is larger than was at first supposed. But the <
fibres I shall now present to the House will convince
honorable members that the statement I made last year is
only too true. The people are sinking rapidly, and, unless
their downward course be arrested, the time is not far
distant when there will be no survivor of the race. I
shall just show what is the effect of a comparison of
figures in the settled districts, taking Hokianga, the Bay
of Islands, Mongonui, Whangarei, Kaipara, Tauranga,
Maketu, and Opotiki. I shall compare the returns for
1874 from those districts—which may be considered more
reliable than others—with the returns by the same officers
in 1878. The total population of those districts in 1874
was 16,441 ; in 1878, 14,475—showing a decrease of 1966
persons in four years, or 12 per cent, of the whole popu-
lation. The decrease is further apparent when we con-
sider it in proportion to the sexes. The males in the same
localities numbered 7930 ; and the females 6545, or 17
per cent less than the males. Any one who knows any-
thing about vital statistics knows what that means. This
disproportion of sexes means that the race is travelling
towards extinction. The House will hear with me. I am
«ure, while I devote a very small space of time to the
consideration of what may be termed the cause of this
decrease. First and foremost I shall allude to the intem-
perate habits of the Native race. There is no question
about it that for many years past—for the last ten years\_
the evil of intemperance has been spreading amazingly
amongst them, and the result is that men, women, and
•children are given up to that vice. Their young die from
want of proper food, and the old people die from want of
attention on the part of those whose duty it is to look
after them—who, instead of looking after them, spend
•their time and waste their substance in bush publichouses
Another cause, no doubt, is their communistic habits. I
do net believe the salvation of the Native race will be
possible until we break up their tribal organization. So
long as you have the Maori people huddled up in ill-con-
structed and uncomfortable houses, without proper ven-
tilation, so long will you have them suffering from well-
known diseases, and dying off rapidly. The report from
the Native Officer of the Taupo District, which has been
laid on the table and will be printed, shows that the de-
crease is attributable to another cause. There is no doubt
that the Natives as a race are decreasing: from the very
poor character of their diet. My friend Rewi, a couple of
days ago, telegraphed to me regarding an interview he
had with Judge Thomas : and Rewi gave as his reason
for not adopting- the Ryotwary system of dealing: with the
land, that it was only suitable for a race that can live
upon rats and a few crumbs of rice. The Maori people
require a much superior diet. On the whole, their diet is
of a very poor kind indeed. Any person who has stopped
for a short time at a Native settlement must be aware of
this fact. One thing is certain—that unless they adopt a
more generous diet, we cannot relieve them from the
diseases now attacking them. In the report I have re-
ferred to, a remark is made which I believe will be found
to be the experience of nearly every person who has given
this question any attention, ana that is that the half-caste
population are superior in physique to their Maori or
European parents. That I believe ou the whole to be
absolutely correct. Although they are superior in phy-
sique to their Maori or European parents, whether they
arc superior mentally has yet to be determined, as up to
the present time it has not been manifested, which may
be attributed to this fact : that the greater portion of
them have prone back to live with their Maori relations.
Another encouraging- fact regarding the Native people as
a body is the revival of religions feeling. This, sir, is
unmistakable. From the extreme north [of this island to
the south there does exist at the present time a deep move-
ment in favor of a return to the religion which was fol-
owed at the foundation of the colony, the religion of the
Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, and the
Wesleyan Church. The people are building their own
churches, they are providing their own ministers, and
showing a disposition to go back to that form of worship
which they threw off for the Hauhau and other objec-
tionable superstitions. Even after they had left Chris-
tianity it must not be thought that they gave up all
forms of worship. At Te Kopua—at our first meeting—
there were four different forms of religions worship going
en almost at the same time. There was our own, the authen-
tic one, there was also the old Hauhau worship, there was
the Tariao form of worship, and also the form of worship
adopted by Te Kooti and a few of his followers. I believe
the policy for the Government to pursue is to refrain from
interfering with the religious worship of the Natives. A
few weeks ago a deputation of Maoris from Napier waited
upon me. They belonged to one of the established forms
of religion, and they pointed out that some few people
residing at Te Mahia, in Napier, had taken up Te Kooti's
form of worship. They complained that these Natives
had pulled down a pound at this place, respecting which
one of the honorable members for Napier a few days ago
tabled a questson. They stated that the pound had been
destroyed because these Natives had adopted Te Kooti's
form of worship. I made inquiry, and ascertained that
the charge as to the pound-breach was well-founded—that
the account given by the deputation was true. I
ascertained that the real cause of the interference with the
pound was that the Natives claimed the land on which it
stood. With regard to the subject of temperance there is
also a satisfactory revival. Along the East Coast of this
Island, in Napier, in the King country, and in some parts
of the West Coast, it has struck all persons travelling there
that a much smaller amount of drunkenness is to be
observed among the Native population. Many of them
have become members of the Good Templar Society and
other kindred societies established to prevent the con-
sumption of intoxicating liquors. The Government have
had repeated applications made to them during the last
recess to do everything they could to put down in the
Native settlements the introduction and the use and sale
of spirituous liquor. Those who were present at the King-
meeting in the Waikato, and at the meeting at Waitara,
must have remarked what an immense number of people
were present, and how very few persons were to be seen
even under the influence of liquor. At Hikurangi, the
principal meeting, a European who was discovered with
two bottles of ruin on his person was turned out of the
encampment by the Natives, and not allowed to return to
it. I do not believe there was a single case of drunken-
ness met with a Hikurangi during the whole of
the four clays of the meeting. The effect of this sobriety
is seen in the appearance of the people. They are better
fed and better dressed than those Natives who live in the
immediate vicinity of European towns. But you can do
what is far better—you can furnish them with the means
of keeping their own settlements free from liquor—and I
propose to ask the House to pass a Bill this session which
will have the following effect :—That the Governor him-
self may, or the people in any Maori settlement can ask
to have the Act put in operation : and, that being done,
the district will be proclaimed under the Act. Within
that district there shall be no licensed house ; into that
district there shall be taken no spirituous liquors ; in that
district there shall be no spirituous liquors consumed
unless for medicinal purposes ; and any such offence will
be punished in ihe manner prescribed by the Act. Any
person visiting a Native district, either as an official of
the Government or in a private capacity, will bear testi-
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mony to this fact: that the worst character is the Maori
or half-caste who knows just enough of English to under-
stand what we say. When yon bring the children up to
a. certain standard of education they have no opening in
ihe world before them where to choose, as European
children have. They have nothing to do but to go back
and live with their own tribes, so that they simply retain,
so to speak, what is evil in our system and increase what
is evil in their own. What I propose to do, and what I
believe is at present desired by the Maori people, is to in-
crease the accommodation of our boarding-schools, so as
to enable the children, after attaining a certain standard
of proficiency in the ordinary schools, to attend a better
class of European schools—not to allow them to go back
to the various settlements until such time as they have
ingrained into them thoroughly oar European civilization.
Ia that way in a few years' time, instead of going back
to be reduced to the level of their ancestors, they will go
back and be enabled to raise their people to the level of
the Europeans themselves. Now, it might be well for the
House to know that this desire to improve their children
in respect of education is spreading very rapidly .amongst
the King Natives, and that within the last few months I
have bad many applications, most of which I have been
able to agree to, to send their children to European
schools. Only a few days ago Rewi's grandson was sent
to attend a school in Auckland. This shows how com-
pletely the isolation of former years has broken down.
Oar desire is to give employment to intelligent and de-
serving Maori youths in our public departments. This
has already been tried with the most satisfactory results.
I may mention one case to illustrate this. The son of a
Waikato chief was put into the Telegraph Department
here. I wished hira after a time to be sent to Onehunga
to be near his people. The Telegraph officials wanted to
send him to Oamaru. They said that he bad proved so
efficient an officer that it would be unfair to send him to
Onehunga, thus depriving him of the promotion to which
he was entitled. I think the House will be glad to hear
that we are now utilizing several of these youths in the
Telegraph Department, which is a great advantage when
we consider that Maori messages are frequently received
by clerks who have not the slightest acquaintance with
the Maori language. There are now upwards of two
hundred Maori children attending European schools, and
I hope that in a few years we shall see the advantage of
having taught them. I hold that all Maoris should have a
right to be present in Courts of Law when questions which
affect themselves are under consideration. I think it is
only fair to let the Maoris know that they have a right to
be present in the Courts when any case in which they are
interested is being heard. I have been told that every
Maori is a liar and a thief, but I do not agree with that at
alI. If we deprive them of their rights we do a great
deal towards making them what they have been called,
but I say it is our duty to give them every opportunity of
proving that they are not so. Now. Sir, I shall refer to
the question of special Maori representation. This is a
question in which we are all deeply interested, and one
which will agitate this country for many years to come.
Some people say it is not necessary to have special repre-
sentation, while others agree to it, but at the same time
stipulate that the Maoris shall have no voice in the
election of European members of this House while they
have special representation. I believe that we are now
on the eve of settling all the differences between the
Europeans and the Natives, and for the present I should
not be inclined to make any change in the number of
Maori members. I should, however, abolish the house-
hold and leasehold qualification, and give, them only the
freehold and ratepayers' qualifications. I believe that in
another branch of the Legislature you will have one, if
not two, of the principal Maori chiefs of the Waikatos as
members ; and it is quite possible that we may have
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Ngatihaua
Ngatiraukawa
Waitara
Raglan
Waipa
Kawhia
West Coast
Rewi
Manukau
Waimate Plains
Tapa te Waero
Waitotara Block
Titokowaru
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and took them to Hawera, where the case was tried. The (
charge was dismissed for want of evidence. There are two
morals to be drawn from this—one from the fact of arrest-
ing prisoners in that country ; and the other is that the
Maoris see that they will get.fair play and a fair hearing,
and they will not be convicted merely because they are
Maoris. I will take one more case, and the House will
pardon me, but I desire to show that a better state of
feeling exists. This case has rather a comical aspect.
On the East Coast of the Island there was a Native-named
Te Waru, a man of very high rank indeed, who combined
the functions of both priest and chief. He committed
some murders and was exiled to Waikato, but was allowed
to come back a few months ago to see his friends. The
old gentleman had something of the Rip Van Winkle
about him, for when he got back he had an idea that he
would go in for some of his old amusements. He
threatened to burn the surveyors' bouses, to take up their
pegs, and break their chain. If this had happened but a
few months ago there would have been a steamer des-
patched to the Coast, with possibly a Minister, certainly
one or two Under Secretaries, a large number of.police,
and good things down in the hold. What happened ? It
is very significant, and shows that the days of chivalry
are over. Te Waru was charged as a vagrant, and was
fined £5, in default to suffer two months' imprisonment.
I see a notice of motion on the Order Paper by the hon-
orable member for Whanganui (Mr. Ford)), asking the
House to appoint a Select Committee to require into the
circumstances under which certain officers—whose names
Ue gives—have been required to retire from the public
service. I shall not new discuss that question, or in any |
way refer to those officers, but, when the resolution comes
on, I shall ask the House to stand by me in the matter,
and not to grant a Committee, which will have the effect
of completely traversing my action. The conduct of this
department is essentially a matter of personal Govern-
ment. If the head of the department cannot remove and
dismiss his officers as he thinks proper he must become a
cypher in the eyes of the Natives. They look to me as
the head, and if any action were taken by this House that
would have the appearance of a vote of censure on me,
although the House might not think so, the Maoris
would certainly think that my services were no
longer necessary. Besides that, there must be a large
amount of the discretion left in the hands of the
head of the department which has to deal with the Native.
I shall now say a few words with regard to the Native
Lands Bill, which I hope to be able to bring before the
House in a day or two. That is a subject of more interest
to most people than any other on which I have touched,
because there are so many persons who want to acquire
these lands. I take it that any principle upon which you
settle this question must be one that will deal fairly with
the Native people, and enable them to exercise full dis-
cretion in the selling of their land ; and I submit that my
proposal will do that. As I have already said, we intend
to restrict our land purchase operations throughout the
country, and will offer no objections to private purchasers,
acquiring land. We intend, however, to meet the difficulty
in this way: Before any title has been declared to be
complete we shall require that it shall pass through the
ordeal of the Governor in Council, and for a certain num-
ber of months after completion of the legal title we shall
reserve to ourselves the right to do one of three things—
either to take the whole of the block ourselves, paying the
purchase-money and the interest and expenses that may
have accrued ; or, secondly, to take part of the Mock on
the same terms ; or, thirdly, that a certan quantity of land
shall be cut up into small sections for settlement. Those
are the-essential conditions we shall make in regard to the
purchase'of any Native lands' in the future. " And now
with regard to the Natives of the Middle Island. I may
say that they have not given much trouble to this Govern-
RETA I TUKUA MAI.
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KI TE ETITA O TE WANANGA.
E ta, mau e tuku atu ena kupu aku ki runga ki to tatou
WANANGA haere ai, hei titiro ma nga tangata o Aotearoa, me
nga tangata ano hoki o Takitimu, ara, Te Waipounamu. Kia
rongo mai, kua kite ahau i te kupu whakahe a Wi Parata kia
Te WANANGA i roto i Te ''Waka Maori " o Turanga, Nama
Vol. I. 1. Hepetema 4., l875. No. 2., koia tenei, e whaka-
tauki ana ki te Oha a tuna hoa a Te Makarini. E ta e Wi
Parata, kaore ano au kia mohio ki te he o Te WANANGA ki a
koe, engari pea he pouri nou ki nga kupu a nga. iwi o nga
Motu e rua nei, e tukua nei ma Te WANANGA e tatari a korua
he, me a korua koroketanga ko tou hoa ko Te Makarini, kua
mate aia, ko koe ko tona hoa e ora aua, kua mate atu a Te
Makarini tou hakoro mana, hei aha ma te tangata korero he
ki te whakahe ki Te WANANGA,
NA HONE HOROMONA.
Omihi, Amuri Bluff, Kaikoura, 25 Hepetema 1S7S.
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Wi Parata
JOHN SOLOMON.
Omihi, Amuri Bluff, near Kaikoura.
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA.
E hoa, mau e uta atu taku kupu ki runga ki Te WANANGA,
kia kite hoki aku hoa Maori ki te maia o tenei taitamariki ki
te mahi ahua Draw, me te mahi Toa hoki. He rawa kore
taua taitamariki, he nui to matou whakapai ki taua tai-
tamariki kia D. Mamaru, be ata whakahaere nona i te tikanga
o te mahi Toa ki te taha Maori. E hiahia ana matou nga
Pakeha kia hoatu e te Kawanatanga he mahi ahua Drawing
maua, notemea he maia hoki ia, heoi ta matou whakapai kia
David Mamaru, naku, na ona hoa.
NA TE BROWN, & Co.
Kai-tuku, kai-tiaki Toa-kipa.
Dunedin, Hepetema 26, 1878.
To THE EDITOR OF THE WANANGA.
S. BROWN & Co., Storekeepers.
Dunedin, September. 1878.
KI TE ETITA o TE WANANGA.
He kupu atu tenei mo nga kupu, ara, korero e kiia nei, ka
whakaturia e te Kawanatanga hei te roia anake he Kai-
whakawa. Na, e hoa. ki taku whakaaro he tikanga pai rawa
me ka peratia, te take hoki, tena ianei, ki te haere te tangata
moni kore, rawa kore ranei ki te whakawa, ka tu mai he
tangata hanga kore nei ki a ia te utu i tana roia, i te mea he
whai rawa ia ki te utu i tana roia, tena ianei, ka rite ano te
marama o te taunga o te whakawa a te Kai-whakawa ehara
nei i te roia, e kore nei e taunga ana ki nga Ture katoa, ki
ta te Kai-whakawa roia e mohio nei ki aua Ture i te mea
nana taua mahi. E hoa, he tini nga whakawa e he rawa atu
ana nga whakataunga i te kore mohio o nga Kai-whakawa ki
nga Ture, na wai tenei ka whakaturia he kai ruuri whenua,
he kani rakau, he keri kapia hei Kai-whakawa, i te mea, te
mahi nei a tetahi he to tiini, ta tetahi he tua rakau, ta tetahi
he amo kaheru. No reira, ki taku whakaaro, ara, ki ta te
nuinga ano he tikanga tika rawa tenei ritenga a te Kawana-
tanga, mehemea ki te mahia peratia e ratou, inaianei tonu te
tika kia mahia taua ritenga a te Kawanatanga e riiwhi nei i
nga tangata noa iho hei Kai-whakawa i te turanga o nga ware o
mua atu ia ratou. He tikanga tika rawa atu ma te Kawana-
tanga, me roia tonu nga riiwhi o nga Kai-whakawa poauau e
whakamutua nei a ratou mahi.
NA TE AOTU.
Whaingaroa, Rakarana, Hepetema 28. 1878.
To THE EDITOR OF THE WANANGA.
These words (of mine) are in regard to the news that the
Government intend ia future to appoint all men who are
lawyers only as Magistrates, Now, O friend, I say this ia a
very good intention, because if a poor man, a man without
money, go to the Court, and an ignorant man sits (as
Magistrate) if the man pays a lawyer to conduct his case,
will the man obtain as much justice from a mau (Magistrate)
who is not a lawyer, and who is ignorant of the laws, as from
a man (a Magistrate) who is a lawyer and who is conversant
with all the laws, and who is learned in such matters as he
las been taught the law as he is a lawyer. O, friend, many are
the wrong decisions given in the Courts on account of the
want of knowledge of the Magistrates of the law. Now, I ask,
bow can matters be different when surveyors, sawyers, and
gum-diggers are appointed to the office of Magistrate,
because one is accustomed to drag a chain to survey with,
others are accustomed to cut trees down, and others are
learned in carrying a spade. Now I think, and roost of the
people also think, that this intention of the Government (to
appoint lawyers as Magistrates) is very good, if they carry
such intention into effect. But now in the time to make such
appointments, when the Government are doing away with
some of the old Magistrates, so that now that the Govern-
ment are dispensing with the services of the ignorant men,
who are old officers, the correct work for the Government to
do is to appoint lawyers in the place of the muddling mea
who have held such offices, whose work is now being put au
end to.
TE AOTU.
Whangoroa, Raglan, September, 1878.
KI TE KAI TUHI o TE WANANGA.
E hoa tena koe, mau e uta atu enei kupu ki runga i to
tatou waka i a Te WANANGA hei titiro iho ma o tatou hoa
Maori, kia mohio ai ratou kaore au e pai kia haere mai ratou
ki te putu i nga huia o toku kaainga o Ngapaeruirui, engari,
me haere tonu ki tona wahi ake patu ai, katahi ka tika, ko te
wahi i au kaore au e pai, me mutu te haere a te tangata ki
tana kaainga, ka tu hoki te rahui inaianei, ko taua rahui kai
te putanga i te Rakau tuhaha, ka tu tetahi ki te putanga i te
Rotoiti i a Hutoi, ko te rohe o taua rahui, ka timata atu i
Ngapaeruirui, tae atu ki te Rakautuhaha, tae noa ki Akitio,
tae ki Tawaputahi, tae noa ki Tangarue, tae noa ki te timata-
nga e mau iho i runga ake nei, ka mutu. E hoa kia wha nga
putanga o taua panui, kia ata mohio ai o tatou boa, kua tu te
Ture mo taua whenua i au, ki te hinga taua Ture i te tangata
me utu ia i te kotahi rau pauna £100. B hoa kai hoha koe,
heoi ra.
NA WI MATUA
Porangahau, Hepetema 10, 1878.
Panuitanga naku na Te Hapuku mo Poukaawa
moana ina kaua e Whakamaroketia i muri ia au nei.
Hei Ture tuturu tenei maku ma Te Hapuku me toku
whenua mo te Hauke papa tupu, tae noa atu ki nga wha-
katupuranga katoa e haere ake nei.
E hoa e te Etita o TE WANANGA, tukua atu e koe taka
panui ki te ao katoa nei haere ai kia kitea ai, e nga
katoa i runga i te Motu nei, Maori, Pakeha hoki, kia rua
nga reo, he Maori he Pakeha hoki. Na, taku kupu ko Po-
ukaawa moana, kaua e pokanoa te Pakeha, te Maori ranei
ki te kari awa, hei rerenga mo te wai, kei maroke a Pou-
kaawa. E kore e tika kia pokanoa te Pakeha, te Maori
ranei kite hanga ritenga maana ki runga ki toku whenua
he ingoa ano toku, he mana ano toku kei runga kei oku
whenua e mau nei i ahau, he wahi iti tenei wahi e toe nei
ko te Hauke anake, me waiho tonu tenei wahi kia takoto
Maori ana, kaore he Karauna Karaati, kaore he whakawa
mo runga i tenei whenua papa tupu i te Hauke, puta no*
ki Poukaawa moana, be taunga mo taku Ture Maori, he
tikanga tonu iho tenei naku tipuna, tuku iho nei ki a ahau
ki» Te Hapuku.
E hoa e te Etita o te WANANGA tukua atu e koe taku
panui kia Ta Hori Kerei, kia whakamanaia mai, te Ture
Maori, otira e whai mana ana ahau ki te whenua. Me
tuku tonu nga panui i nga Hatarei katoa o te marama o
te tau 1878. He kupu tautoko tenei na te Komiti Kau-
matua, mo te kupu a te Hapuku, e tika ana, ka rongo tonu
matou i ana kupu, kaua te Pakeha e pokanoa ki te kari
awa hoi rerenga mo te wai, kei maroke a Poukaawa,
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TE WANANGA.
Ko te take kaore tenei whenua i Kootitia, Kaore i Ka-
rauna Karaatitia, he whenua papatupu tonu tenei whenua
ko Te Hapuku tonu te Karauna Karaati o runga i te
mana Maori takoto ai. He Ture tuturu tonu tenei mo
nga tupuna, tuku iho ki nga matua, tuku iho nei kia matou
ki ona uri i muri i a ratou, kaua te tangata e pokanoa ki te
whakahe i tenei Ture Maori, kua whakatuturutia nei e
Renata Tamakihikurangi te Ture Maori, mo te Hauke papa
tupu, puta noa i nga taha katoa o Poukaawa moana, haere
noa i nga taha taha katoa o Poukaawa moana, te taunga o
tenei Ture Maori, taihoa ka tuhia te raina o te. rohe o te
Hauke papa tupu, puta noa i nga taha katoa o e roto, hei
taanga mo tenei Ture Maori, heoi, e hoa e te Etita o TE
WANANGA, kia tere to tuku, kia TE WANANGA, hei
matakitaki ma nga iwi Maori, Pakeha hoki.
Ko tenei panui me tuku tonu i nga. Hatarei katoa o te
marama, o te tau 1878, heoi na te Komiti katoa e noho
nei i te Hauke.
Na Te Harawira te Tatere,
Na Te Ropiha te Takou,
Na Hemi te Hukui,
Na Te Waaka Rewharewha,
Na Matene Waewae,
Na Renata Tamakihikurangi,
Na Raniera te Iho,
Na Ropata te Hoa,
Na Kiingi Tohunga,
Ko Maika te kai tuhi.
Notice by me, by Te Hapuku, respecting the Lake
Poukawa, that it shall not be Drained after my
Death.
The following is a law made by me, by Te Hapuku, which
shall be an unalterable law for my lands at Te Hauke which
have rot passed through the Native Lands Court, and this
law shall be a law to all future generations.
Friend, the Editor of TE WANANGA, publish this, my
notice, to all the world, and let it go over all the world, so
that all the tribes who live on these islands may see it, that
is, all the Maori and European people. Let it appear in the
Maori and English languages.
Now, this is my word : That the Poukawa Lake shall not
be touched or meddled with by European or Maori, nor shall
anyone dig or make a drain by which the water shall escape
from the lake), and thereby cause the lake to dry up. I
will not be right or just if any person whatever assume any
right or authority over my lands. I have a name ; I have
authority over all the lands which I own, and this portion I
now hold is very small—it is Te Hauke only—so that this
portion shall be left as it was in days gone by, according to
Maori customs and rights. And let no Crown grant, no inves-
tigation by the Native Lands Court be made or held for this
land, Te Hauke, and on to Poukawa Lake, which is now held
according to Maori right, so that this, my Maori Law, shall
take effect on it, as such law was the law of my ancestors for
ages past and even down to the days in which I, Te Hapuku,
have lived.
Friend, the Editor of TE WANANGA, send my law to Sir G.
Grey, that he may approve of this. my Maori law. But I
have power over my own lands. Let this notice be published
each. Saturday of the months of all the year 1878.
This is the word of the meeting of old chiefs in support of
the words of Te Hapuku, and it is true that we heard his
words that not any European should meddle with or cut
drains, so that the water of the Lake Poukawa could escape,
and thereby drain that lake. And the reasons for his words
are these : This land has not been passed through the Native
Lands Court, there has not been a Crown grant issued for it,
and it is held by Native title, as he, Te Hapuku, is the sole
holder (Crown, grant) of this land, and Te Hapuku is the
Native Mana of this land, and such right to this land has
been that by which this land has been held from the grand-
fathers who held it in ages past, and even down to us the off-
spring of those ancient owners. Let not any person assume
any right to ignore this Maori law, as Renata Tamakihi-
kurangi has made this law steadfast on Te Hauke, as it is
land at Te Hauke, which is held by Maori custom, and it
includes all the land all around the, margin of the Lake
Poukawa. In some future time the boundaries of the land
held under Maori right will be given, that is, all the Hauke
lands and all around the lake, over which this Maori law
shall have effect.
Now, O Editor of TE WANANGA, be quick and put this
notice into TE WANANGA, so that it may be seen by the
Maori and European public.
Let this notice be published ou each Saturday of the months
in the year 1878. Enough, from all the committee which is
now being held at Te Hauke.
Na Te Harawira te Tatere. Na Renata Tamakihikurangi,
Na. Te Ropiha te Takou, Na .Raniera te Iho,
Na Hemi te Hukui, Ka Ropata te Hoa,
Na Te Waaka Rewharewha, Na Kiingi Tohunga,
Na Matene Waewae, Ko Haika te kai tuhi. 88
NOTICE.
TO SELL the Land known as Kohinurakau, at £8 per
acre. Apply to us at Pakipaki.
RAWENATA,
PENI TIPUNA.
Pakipaki, October 12, 1878. 103
TE HOIHO TINO MOMO REIHI, KO
TERENGA
Ko te tepara a Hori Karati a Terenga tu ai, hei wahi e
kawea atu ai nga uha ki a ia.
E whitu tau o Terenga, a na Kererewata aia, a ko Piipi te
whaea. He hoiho pai a Terenga ki te reihi, a ki te pai o ana
uri. A i a ia te wiini o te whakakite hoiho i Haku Pei, a he
hoiho pai aia i ana uri haka. Koia te matua o Reri Rihipeti
te hoiho nana i wiini te Haku Pei porotuhi teika. He hoiho
pai a Terenga ki te mea hoiho haka, i te mea he uri kaha ona
uri.
Ka tiakina paitia nga uha e kawea atu ana ki a ia, otiia e
kore te rangatira o Terenga e pai koia kia he, ana he aua uha.
Me mau atu nga uha ana oti te eke e Terenga, a me utu i aua ra,
a ki te mea ka noho tonu te uha i reira, ka utu te tangata e
rua hereni me te hikipene mo te wiki.
Nga utu, £5. 5. O. mo te uha kotahi.
Ma te tangata nana nga hoiho, me te rangatira o Terenga
te korero mo nga utu mo nga hoiho i nui ake i te mea kotahi.
Ko nga uha kihai i hapu i tera tau, £2. 2. 6. utu mo tenei tau
NA HORI KARATI.
Hawheraka.
He mea pai ano, me utu ki te ooti te utu mo te uha. 97
PANUITANGA
HE mea atu tenei ki nga tangata Maori katoa, kua nama
taonga ki au i taku Toa i Taratera (Taipo) ki te mea e
kore aua nama e utua e ratou i roto i nga wiki e wha, kei te
12 o Oketopa ka tamanatia ratou e au.
PAPU
(ROBERT FINLAYSON).
21 Hepetema, 1878.\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_102
UTU.
E taia ana Te WANANGA Nupepa i nga wiki
katoa. Ko te utu mo te tau, kotahi pauna. Otiia, ki te
tukua ma te Meera, kotahi pauna e rua hereni me te hiki
pene mo te tau. Mo te WANANGA kotahi, ana tikina
atu i nga Toa takotoranga o taua Nupepa, he hikipene mo
te Nupepa kotahi.
NEPIA, Haku Pei Niu Tireni.—He mea ta e HENARE HIRA, a he mea panu
e HENARE TOMOANA, e te tangata nana tenei niupepa, te whare ta
o Te Wananga Nepia.
HATAREI, OKETOPA 12, 1878.
NAPIER, Hawke's Bay. New Zealand.—Printed by HENARE HIRA, and
published by HENARE TOMOANA., the proprietor of news-
paper, at the office of Te Wananga, Napier.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12,1878,