A Poetic Address

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 September 1911, Page 4

A Poetic Address

TO SIR JAS. CARROLL. The following (says the Maiunratu 1 imos) is 'a translation by Mr Stowo 'Hare Hong) of the poetic address presented to Sir James Ca-nvoll (Timi Kara) by Winlinma Hunia, the paralTOunt Horowhenua chief, who lias dono so miicli to .help by bis influence ir smoothing over difficulties regarding Horowhenua lake aaid other matters on the West Coast. It is a fine example of Maori prose after ancient Maori models :— AN* ADDRESS OF SINCERE FELICiTATIO*. To Sir James CarroilL "Wellington!. Greetings unto theo who art as bnght as the breaking mom fluid v'lioso voico is .hoard 'beyond the tango of those trumpet tones of the strongest-lunged kaka. Thou art the descendants of ancestors and sires who crossed liiither over vast spaces of ocean deep from Tawlnti-nui, wihero their spirits still uiidto at earth's very centre. Thoee great ones have now vanished into the shades and thou /their noble descendant art here a, centre of attraction and admiration to the irorld from which alas they have passed awa.y. Thine ancestors it waj> who valiantly swain the great ocean of Kiwa to discover the rich milk flowing from the verdant mother breasts of these twin islands of Aotearoa and "Wai-pounaiinu. Hoix did they estallish themselves and 'here in later times tiheir descendants set up the typical panoe pillar of the Treaty of Waitanigji. T:hat heoame the important procursor to thy great Parliament of to-day beneath whoso sway our countrymen are enabled to share in peace the sweet milk which those orecious braists continue to ipour forth.. From all these hast Uiou 'arisen, the no'ble dark-eyed om of this generation. Thou standout as it were upon the towering ridge-pole of the young nation. Thine 'hands have been graced, and adorned by the sceptre of our King, the bright and costlj\ jewels of which gleam twixt earth and sky. Those betoken admiration and exaltation of these in procliaming thy great calliivn; and mission They are also tokens which serve to remind the? with wha.t love and care thou art to exercise thy talents in t.hio trust placed in theo by banishiiv- the plague spots which nro fast taking hold upon these fruitful i«les. Mav thy health and prosperity ever increase and t-Tiy anxious bur- (}>»? p'-p r diminish. Fi"'!!i thy bumble servant. WIRTHANA HUXTA.