Maori Ladies on the Wine.

Manawatu Herald, 21 April 1898, Page 2

Maori Ladies on the Wine.

Several Maori women who bad benefited over the victory of Faugha ballagh and Kahoi at the Patea Easter races celebrated the victory in their U3ual style— by getting what a nautical man would call •' half seas over," and, after arriving at the railway station in a " pendulum " manner and rollicking mood, oreated no end of fun for the large gathering of ppople awaiting transit. Three of the Maori damsels would persist in getting on the railway line and defied the guard who bad to resort to physical force by entwining bis arms around a fat wahine and cany her back to the platform. No sooner did he carry one back to the platform than another would stagger across, and at one time two wahines and a .railway official were in a me*lee on the line and in the struggle faint glimpses of a railway official's coat could be seen visibly struggling in tfc)9 dust from under a pack of w ihine*. After clearing the line the gia'd resumed the tenor of his way, when one of the Maori women made a charge across the line to the Wangaum train and had just got her foot on Iho step when the official epotiM^

ber and caught bold of her legs whilst the Maoris on the train caught hold of her arms and then came a rug of war, the railway guard hung on tenaciously, but there was too much beef at the other end of the lind as the Native woman was gradually hauled aboard the train amidst the shouts of the spectator?. The official stated he " would see all about it," and a3 the train moved off the tatooed lass shouted words of dafianoe, turned her nose up to heaven and her mouth to sunset and glared at the official. — Hawera Post.