FOX THE NATIVE: HIS SPEECH AT PARIHAKA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 79, 2 April 1881, Page 4

FOX THE NATIVE: HIS SPEECH AT PARIHAKA.

For some years a young Maori, of remarkable intelligence, adopted by Sir W. Fdx, and who was generally known by the nome of Fox, has been employed B 8 clerk io the office of Mpsisrs Buller and Louis, the welUkriowh solicitors Recently be went to Parihtk-a, and completely adopted Maori habits and dress. He is reported to have trade at the late meeting the following ppneoh. — " Fox is pouri because 1 have abandoned him, and 80 Pareti (Porris) has Riven him leave for a few daya to go home ahd get -mxrama. Aid I not bis namesake? I era here to tell you why I left. I woe geitiag weary of the evil customs of the jakehe, Indeed it was time to gc, or J might have become even a* they are. fc So much have I learned, tbanka to my ■^education. Another reason why I loft nflmy^ benefactor I will tell you Io 'the candour of my breast I bad really belie^ei Pcki (Fox) was the poke (be c ) to conduct this work though I know it wri I upon whom he depended for the! results ,• but I found out (hat Poki was no poke at all, bnt that Ptretiwaa hie poke, even ac Te Wbiti is Pareti's poke {So when I saw the bark r^ft off ihe (reel had teken to be a ratn of o hundred years' growth, end fouDd it to be only a cabbage tree, aod (hat Ibis roui niti whakarahara was, after all, only t» disciple of Parefci'd, the fog that haH obscured my ei^ht and troubled my micd. rolled baob, ond iight displaced the'darkness.. So this is how it has baeo," and" is. I thought " now it is clear ;" it is Pare! who is tha Native Minister nfter ell, and not Poki.' After thic, could I have remained to be deceived F It is straight talk, though, to say that Pokiw.BS kind to, me, though he never once gave me a six* pence to. buy a glass of beer; but why- was he kind ? The tola I waa placed with was kind too, exceedingly so ; but wby were they or any other pakobas kind or affectionate ? I will till you, as I too am a roia, aDd havo found the pakeha out. Listen 1' When you receive kindness from roias, and the pakehae are loving to you, be on your guard ; that love is a bait to entice little fish. They are kind to little fieb, as by this means they will catch a big codfish for their eating, and so the two fishes -are used up for the stomach of the kind and affectionate pakeha ; and if they could catch a whale by impaling a cod on a hook that would be gulped down too. Such, 0 tribe, are my thoughts, and one of the causes for which I deserted thepakeba to return to you, but my love for my tribe .and land will never pa9B away, As true as I era a rota, no teaching will change my nature, but pokehae will not. see that a toroa cannot be changed into a crow."