MAORI DEPUTATION TO THE QUEEN.
Tpeess association telegram.] AUCKLAND, May 2. Tawhanga, accompanied" by Hare Hongi Haka, son of the famous Hongi and Hakena Parore, leaves by the Albion to-morrow for Australia. Thence take passage by steamer Cotopaxi from Melbourne for England, to lay o petition on Native grievances before the Queon. They take presents of greenstone and whalebone meres, mats, &c. ; also baskets of Maori manufacture, and dyed with nitan, kohai, and other pigments, as presents for the Queen’s grandchildren, Parore’s grandfather, old Parrero, pays the expenses of the mission—£3oo. The party will invoke the aid of the Aborigines Protection Society and tho Church and Wesleyan Missionary Societies in their mission. The petition to the Queen, which complains of breaches of the treaty of Waitangi, is signed by Paorere, Kawiti Kaingi, Hori Kari, Mongcnui Bewa, Wirenui Tuhi, Te Kihi, and tho three members of the deputation.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2517, 3 May 1882, Page 3
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147MAORI DEPUTATION TO THE QUEEN. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2517, 3 May 1882, Page 3
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