Social Pilfering.
They have a queer way of “ waking ” their Native friends in Hawke’s Bay, if report be true. The Napier correspondent of the Wairoa Guardian, in reference to Tareha’s funeral, says: — “I also felt mean when I heard Major Routledge talk to the Maoris through an interpreter, and tell them that the soldiers they saw there that day had fought side-by-side with the “ friendlies ” in Poverty Bay ; especially as a tall, intelligent looking Maori who stood behind me was making a running commentary, in English, all the time he was speaking—its drift being scepticism. 1 felt little when I went to the refreshment booth, which had been put up for Europeans, and saw the beer go down and the knives and forks work, and littler still when I saw ‘ mean whites,’ not consented., with eating in the booth, taking away fowls and “ hunks ” of things to eat on the return journey. It didn’t give one much faith in nineteenth century civilization.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 912, 26 January 1881, Page 5
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162Social Pilfering. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 912, 26 January 1881, Page 5
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