An Old Story.

Manawatu Herald, 9 May 1893, Page 3

An Old Story.

— _ — % . n „,_ M (Continued.) , ; , During the stay of Captain Cooli in Queen Charlotte's Sound there arose a love affair between one oi the ship's boys and a charming New Zealand maid. This was made ; i^e oiby the lad to beguile the maid to tell him the incidents relating tc the^illing of nine 1 or ten European •mon s^me, years ago. She was verj to do so as she feared hei would kill her for doing so, bat love prevailed and this is hei Ertory;— One Kahoora, a bad man, i vrh6 hadoeeh often at the ship, and had stolen many thing's, came tc know that it was preparing to depart, went up into the hill country waA -invited the warriors to come dojyn and kill the strangers. Thej at first refused, saying, the strangers were stronger than they, and woulc kill them with their pow poiv, oi 'fire»arnis ; he told them they neet not fear, for he knew where thej '■"iaait cofine before they ' departed" it : order ;?to get grass for their cattle '*and that on suph occassions thej .left itheir pow pm behind them k * Hh6 ship ,. while they were at work They, said they were no enemies but friends, and they must not lril i men with whom they were in friendship. ; Kahoora said, they were vik enemies, and wicked men apd com planned of their chaining him antj 'beating him, and showed them marks and bruises he had received al Jihe ship, and told them besides Ho^ • J tney mlgn't J Bilence their pow pow bj only throwing water over them, and ,taUifafiy J ._cauld J . i noL. l hi\rt thsm Kahoora undertook to conduct them in safety. to the pJjaqe where the ' come, and showed ' them<'iWheye Ihey might conceal them i«1y«8 till he should come ttn^

.[ftiVd theW notice, which he did. I Asd when the men were busy about i getting grass, and not thinking any i harm, the warriors rushed out Upon , tnem, and killed th'firii With their ■ bato'p"iUows and then divided their s bodies among them. The women » made the fires while the warriors I cut the dead men in pieces, but they ■ did not eat them all at once but i only thoii* hearts and livers^ the \ W&triors had tho heads, they being > esteemed the best> the remainder I Was distributed aniong the Crowd. i Tills young lady spun a very , exciting story, rather a " hair- > raiser " to the young man who was I making love to her. but she seems to s have had a " down >v on old Kahoora i and m&cte him as bad as bad could t be. Kahoora with a cool ftssur* ? ftnoewhichia hew bflly to be met i with itt politicians, was at the very time the tale was being told onboard 3 of Captain Cook's ship and gol rilthei: 9 a fright on being Asked for an explai nation ot his rather hasty conduct, v l^e grand. old man was equal to the a occasion and having made quite cerV tain of his salety, spun his yai'n of i this past incident He declared that . one of his countrymen having i bitMght a stone hatchet tor barter, the man to whom it was offered, took > it, and would neither pay for it, nor J give it back ; on which the owner s snatched up the bread as an equivft- - lent, and then the quarrel begun* t Miss OhoWalinalig, the young lady t whoreoited the above tale of blood, i in response for more in the same line told, her lad that the people of the' Southern division of the. island were a fierce and ( bloody people and had a natural hatred to the people of j Ea-hei-no-niauwe, (where ever that g may be) and killed them When they found them at any time in their J, country, this affording proof that i !* nel ? Were no close seasons for shoot- \ ing in the. early days of this colony, f Sh9 said that the people of . Ea-hei-no-mauwej which sounds t very much like "here, hi, no more " were a good people and were friendly to one another, but never suffered ' any of the people of T'Avi-Poe-nannno to settle among them, because they were enemies ; that they i sometimes employed them to work for them ; but that the two nations, . the people on the north part of the y Sound, and those on the south, were * ever at war, and ate one another. r . (To be continued.)