THE CREED OF THE 12 APOSTLES.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 168, 1 April 1864, Page 3

THE CREED OF THE 12 APOSTLES.

(ahueiri version.) I believe in one good and well-grassed native run, near to Napier, and well bounded. I believe in a native chief and runanga that will always be true to me. I believe in twelve good and faithful men who will be true to eacli other in adversity and prosperity. . I firmly and truly believe in the title and right of such chief and such runanga to such

run, and to uphold me and my eleven hr aye and true, in our unlawful occupation of such land, believing it is better for the land to be leased to somebody than to nobody, and to me than to anybody else. I fervently and truly believe in wire fencing ; and. am fully and truly persuaded that it is far cheaper and better for our inmost pockets to import it from Christian England, than to purchase it at the worldly-minded Spit, and in this we are all of one mind and opinion.

I am firmly convinced that‘under such a powerful organization and clique, (embracing men of all shades of opinion, diversity of tastes, and difference of secular and other calling—yet all equally eager in pursuit of the one thing needful —money —and determined to get it) it is utterly futile for any any power in Hawke’s Bay or out of Hawke’s Bay, yea, or under Hawke’s Bay, attempt to cast us out of an inheritance, the fee-simple of which we scent afar, and which we pledge ourselves and the General Government shall descend to our posterity. And I believe in one good run now, and as many more as we can get, to the exclusion of all besides the blessed twelve for ever. Amen. — Communicated.