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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 16, 25 January 1845, Page 3

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SHIP HOTEL YARD, * MANNERS STREET, TE ARO. . First flour, per ton, £14 ; bread, per 2lb. loaf 3d to 3§d ; fresh butter, Is. per lb. ; cabbage, each, Id. to 2d. ; carrots, per bunch, 2d. to 3d. cheese, 7d. to Is. per lb. ; ducks, 3s. to 4s. per pair; eggs, per dozen, Is. to Is. 6d. ; fowls, per pair, 3s. to 3s. 6d. ; geese, 7s. to Bs. each ; hams, 6d. to Bd. per lb. ; mutton, 6d. to 7d. per lb. ; maize, 2s. 6d. per bushel ; potatoes, new, |d. and Id. per lb ; potatoes, old, per cwt., 4s. ; pork, 2d. to 4d. per lb. ; peas, per peck, Bd. to Is. ; Rice, l^d. to 3d. per lb. ; rhubard, 6d. to 9d. per bundle ; rabbits, Is. to 3s. each ; Spanish onioms, 3d. per bundle ; turnips, 3d. per bundle ; turkeys, 12s. 6d. each ; veal, Bel. to lOd. per lb. ; beef, 3d, to 7d. per lb. J. ToMLIK, Clerk, Collector, &c. W. M.

The Journal dcs Debats gives the following story, said to be communicated by a correspondent at Akaroa, New Zealand, dated January 28. Any resident Colonist will be satisfied on perusing it, that such a tissue of falsehoods must have been invented in France, not in New Zealand. Every one who has been tweny-four hours in New Zealand knows, that Maori is the native name for the Aboriginal race, and not of a particular tribe ; and that the English are not called Yes, Yes, by the natives. We all know too, that the victims at Wairau were not eaten by their murderers. We should have hardly thought it worth while to notice this story, the fabrication evidently of some person who had heard of the Wairau Massacre but who had not been in New Zealand, were it not just possible that it might find believers out of the colony among persons as uninformed of New Zealand affairs as this ingenious Frenchman.-— Ed. N.Z.S. " Probably before my letter arrives in France you will have learnt that the Mahouris, a tribe of New Zealanders, have killed thirty English of this colony ; but you perhaps will not know that the bodies of these unfortunate men were eaten. This is but too true. We had been out on a hunting party for a week, when one evening we arrived among the friendly tribe of the Terauparaa, or Mahouris, and found them regaling themselves with human flesh. We all conceived that they were eating some captives or slaves of their own nation. As I understand the language, I could not resist expressing my indignation, and threatening them with chastisement from the crew of the corvette. The savages were alarmed, and endeavoured to appease me, by saying, ' They are not men of Mahouri that we are eating, but some Yes Yes,' for it is thus they call the English. They then showed us the heads of the victims, and among'them I recognised that of Captain Wakefield, one of the distinguished inhabitants of Port Nicholas, who had entertained us at his own house, when we went .to the town to procure provisions. I was seized "with horror at this sight. My companions blamed me for having risked irritating the cannibals, as we were only five against two hundred. But they gave us confidence by saying, ' Oh, the Oui, oui (for so they distinguish us) are good people, but the Yes, yes are very wicked.' They then related that they had killed the English because they wished to establish themselves in a bay which the Mahouris are unwilling to give up. We then retired with our hearts full of horror and disgust."