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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume VI, Issue 153, 26 January 1854, Page 4

New Plymouth, 11th January 1854. A Dpputaion of Native Chiefs came this UNKNOWN to the land Office to meet Mr. Arper, to delvryer to him \ Valedictory Address to His I'xrcllenry Sir George Cirey upon (lie occasion of his departing for Knglanil, w'irh bail l'i'tii ntlop ed al a hirer- infi-linj" «»•" tin* N.L'M : a\va Natives lieM al Hocwilea mi il>e 2Slh Decem'er ll!-i3. anil signed by the Chiefs on lielialf of their followers. The deputation consisted of the Chiefs Jfiitvirl W xiana, II araita le Tuki. Jlaniera Ni;.iere, te Talma Papavrakn, te Wak-i Ngami, Win unite Aliii.ilio, and seveial otliers; and tin- followiiiß Knvopean gpiitlpinrn were present on the occasion : His II- nor ill.- Snperinlendenl, the Uev 11. t'iiveli. MA , .1 'Fiijiht. I'sqr. Resident Jlagistrale, W. liaise Ksqr., Couiniissioiier of Crown Lands, and othcrf. 11- « iri Waiaua, in a loin; address, partly to the Na •'■>•« nnd pailly to thi. Europeans, ii umerated briefly the lieneliis which S r ("|.D!i!o fire •'« wise adininislralion liail conferred upon the Colony. He said (hat the mokls nf the address are quite true, that to Kgatiairn the settlers were indehli'd f■ -r Tort Nichc'son, Nelson, AVhainianui and New Plymout'i. no one could deny that. lie \va< very g'.ad to see o'l-.er liilxs prefeiiting addresses and tokens of affi-ciion to the Governor, and he bail no doubt they had good reasons for doing so and piobably had ftiven fome more tangible proof of their pood fieli-if; but none of tlu-m could point to such proofs at lS'iraliawa. Njratiawa gave the European*, AVellinaton, Nelson nnd Wangai.ui, and no wars succeeded in those places, but Ngatiawa ahvi.ys behaved will. And look at New Plymouth, the only settlement where no fclotdshcd has Liken place. He hoped this s!ato of things would coni.'iitie and le Aiiawa keep up ilirirgoud iianie ; ri.t who sbnulil say that they would so continue, now- that our good father is gone? Who enn tt-11 who may succeed lit id , and wlut line of policy he may adopt. Hut we must trust in Gud. and in the good faith of the Kuro| ean gciit'cirten, whom wo know, to keep us out of uiis:hirf. Te \i aka, te Tuki and lianiera, followed in the same strain. Te Tabara then rose, and aftei a speech nearly to the eflt'ct of what had fallen from Itnwiri, presented the address to Mr. Cooper, accompanied by a handsome taiaba, or spear, ornamented with ird feathers. Mr. Cooper, after reading the aiMrese said—- " My fiiends, it is not for me to make any reply to the paper you have placed in my binds. Il is addressed (o the Governor, and if be wer? here he wo-..U give a suitable reply. Jlut although absent in body his spirit is still witp us, though lie leaves us his po'icy will Mill be carried out. for it is tint of the Queen nnd the Knulisli naiion. What you say in the iidilu-s'e.s is true —our imvn has not been Mill.ed by evil, and let ns take care thai it continue so. Taratiaki stands firm, aid so tines our town, both are' saired. Taia-.aki's iop is white, artl so Is this selllenieni. It is far us to continue lllisstaw of tilings. If evil co i e upon us. we ar.' here to meet ii, but we will not originate il. That is all 1 have to say. I will lake your address, and scut it to the Governor ; ami if be has gone il can be sent after him ro Kngland ; and as you wish it published, I will ask the. aulhoiities in Auckland to print it in the Maori Newspaper for general infurinatioi." The meeting then broke up.

• Marikrna,—the pencrnl of a l-cllipermt ixprdirion. who KM cxf<cte\l to return l.ulm with (lie spoils «>f the vannmslud foe. t I.ovc Is lieto considered to he an incurable due.ve should the •yinpalhiea of the priest not Le mlisted on behalf of the »ii!Tcitr. The fubjcct introducM in this »o?>s It kept tu-fore the miml Ihioughoul i» the original, * circumstance very unusual in Maori poetry, a* seldom or nevt-r any attempt _ U made by the New Zcalandcr to rein la the Imagination. lhe rhjrct lovrd. if mppoied to br at*raiC hy the author of this an-t lure to !li« KiceTency Sir fienrft* (»i**y.