LATE LOCALS,
Come along K.adies and see the dancing moo-cow at the Soldiers’ Hall tonight. You will enjoy seeing its antics.
Explaining, in liis address at New Plymouth ,the other day, the difficulty of accurately defining each race’s meaning of the word, cruelty, the Bishop of Wainpu repeated an interesting odtime Maori criticism of tho British. When certain Maori chiefs had visi e.l the Rev. Samuel Mnrsden at Sydney they came back shocked at Briti h Cruelty in that a convict had been sen- • teheed to death for stealing a pig ancl that be was not to be hanged for two or three weeks The Maoris considered the penalty was too severe as the convict “probably only stole because he was hungry.” But they considered the real cruelty lay in keeping the rm n awaiting death for two or three weeks. “Had a slave of mine stolen one.” said the chief, “and 1 consiedred he would be better out of the'wav, 1 have come behind him and.split Ins skull with my mere. He would not have known punishment awaited him in the cruel fashion of you Engl shinen.”
Yeaston Tablets every day k ee P you fit for work and play. W. F<. Williams, Chemist,— Adyt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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