MAORIS FROM AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 912, 3 September 1910, Page 5

MAORIS FROM AMERICA.

■ -BACK ;■ FSOM : HIPPODROJIE.- ' ;. ! -The';;last:"of. the Ma;ori party from.Ro; 5 icruai'and . Ta: Afoha" who'i; went .to America in July ; of;, last year, returned by the.Mokoia yesterday, passing happy to :s'ee':tbeiry native J land,- once- more. They numbered twenty-seven in> all,- the others haying returhed:last month; tired '. to.death of . the ', stress' -and' artificiality, of" life in theiland'of'tbe; skysoraper and the wooden ham! ■ An attempt : yrae made to get them, to .stay ■ another five months, •''visiting: Seattle,. (Oregon), and;other cities' in./connection. 1 ;with State;fairs, but as.they were required to perform ;pn : every: day of the week: (including' Sunday) 1 : they: objected.l says that Sunday in Am«iica is, not as we linderstand -it—a day <rf . ; rest. - It ..is given/up '.entirely to emnsement; and in that, regard is .the biggest, day ; "of 'the week.- :Coney -Island' ■ (New York) and dozens of other amusement .'• parks; drew . countless,-- : thousands ; on 'Suadays. ■;; No. one, wbo'.has^-Visited ;iAmerica .recently could ■ but /conclude SiatVit is. a:Godless, country.>.<;. '■:; : -.. : :; It' wae' fiat this Maoria; had their first trouble. Jit 'the New J York Hippodrome it was all 'right,. as,; there were - no' performon; Sunday; .there, but they were BuMet, to the America Music Hall in Chicago-;for .the last-two months ,of. &eir; contract, and though there; was a special clause in their contract pro.viding; that -there ■ should be no.-.Sun-; .day performances, they were' "'■ insisted lb refuse would have meant a ; oostly'law suftjand ''to,win is to lose," .''So;they.-Derioraed..v.:.'v'.'-;;,:'-'-. . : -'\:'.,- : '-\-''- a The Maoris had been*a financial suc.ces3,;and had. made' money, themselves, ..whilst.havingvhad.',their .-eyes\opened by the/great , industriallenterprises and .wonderful sights' they have seen since their ".departure from New. Zealand. .. •': .At ;PapeeteV(Tahiti) ; the Maoris gave a /performance,- for; which.; they" were paid .250 gold dollars.. .Asthat amount vvas.not-taken at the doors, tho;Maoris may-be.said-to have mado a good deal. At Rarotohga'they were entertained by Queen. Makea,";wjio feasted right well, and;' senti them on .board with two roast pigs and '\ live' one, to help to keep Body and; soul together on the trip,to. New.; Zealand.:. - The Maoris leave for Otaki, to-morrow, to be.present'at a Native gathering, and go on to ; Rotorua on Monday -or Tuesdav next.--;. ; •' .;-:'■ - : ...■•-...-" .- \. -...';