Mamma : " Do you know it's rude to say ' Sha/nV? " Little Girl : "Is it very rude, ma? I think' I can be much ruder than that." ' '' •'■ l '' '■'"" A writer in the Qtago Witness says ; ." Although the Maori is fast passing away from our midst, we dp hot hear much dboiit hjin' bis pzplQJbg, in' former days,' but'a genjbleinaij yno has Jbeen th^e' pojony'for iioariy forty years me a siory biiowjgag how rapidly Maoris picked' up cjivijisea ideas'. ' Old Bloody Jack, a& the whalers'.called h-ini —Towach, I believe was his ss#je —the principal chief of these parts, was taken a whaler across to Sydney, and while there fcp gaw some men hung, to his great delight. Upon his i-Gturn, highly edified with what he had seen, he determined to civilise his subjects, and carried out his intention by hanging half a dozen of them with all the formalities he had observed in Sydney."
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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 733, 25 October 1876, Page 2
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151Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Globe, Volume VII, Issue 733, 25 October 1876, Page 2
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