MELBOURNE.
Our Maori friends have heard much of Melbourne, for many of their countrymen have visited it, and brought with them quantities of its shining ore, and many of them too, have found graves in that 'land of forgetfulness.' We do not say that they did wrong in yielding to the mania, but we should have preferred seeing them tilling the fertile soil of their own native land. There has been great insubordination among the diggers at Melbourne lately. This state of things must be expected, for the worst class of persons invariably flock to such places, and religion which alone can make man peaceful and happy, as a matter of course, will be quite at a discount in such haunt 3 of vice.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 January 1855, Page 15
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124MELBOURNE. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 January 1855, Page 15
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