ARRIVALS FROM PARIHAKA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2058, 28 September 1880, Page 3

ARRIVALS FROM PARIHAKA.

The 59 Maoris who were sentenced to two years' imprisonment in theLjttelton Gaol, with hard labor, arrived yesterday in the steamer Binemoa. The new arrivals are mostly young men, stalwart, but fanatical. Not so fanatical quite as the previous shipment, the thought of having to undergo two years' enforced drudgery in durance vile evidently having brought them to their sense?. Several of them were holf castes as to nationality, but in language more European than Maori. It required a very short conversation with these men to elicit the fact that their faiih in the prophet who wavering—almost, it may be said, gone entirely. More than one declared that they, commonly speaking, suspected To Whiti was an impostor, and that they wore the victims of misplaced confidence. When they reached the inside of the heavy barred gates of the gaol yesterday, in place of the Hallelujah choruses which heralded their predecessors, the wholo fifty-nine had the appearance of the disobedient child pleading that, "if let off this time he would not do go again," and not a few of them msde known that this was their sincere sentiment. They were, however, most tractable in submitting to the ablutionary regulations, and were quickly robed in the orthodox moleskins, and blueinstead of grey jumpers, both duly branded with the broad arrow. In a few days they will have sufficiently recovered from their surprise to take exercise with the established hard labor gang. It should be remarked, as complimentary to the gaol authorities* management, that so complete was the plan laid for their reception that the 13S of their coui trymon in the prison had no knowledge that the real martyrs had arrived. There were no songs of welcome, as occurred when the second and third lots arrived, because the welcomers were unaware of the presence of their f-iends, and there were no " hakus" by the latter, evidently for the cogent reason that they were not in the musical humor. Shortly after the new arrivals had been quartered the prisoners detained for trial wore marched down in three or four batches to the Hinemoa, and taken across to Kipa Island. It was not intended that Te Whetu, the implacable, should accompany them, and he was so judiciously reserved as to causo no concern amongst his fellows, not until they were crossing to the island, when they expressed some astonishment at his absence. The steamer put them ashore in the forenoon, where they will remain in company with the twenty-eight prisoners previously left there.