Tokomaru Meeting.
Captain Porter has placed in our hands an invitation from Mokena Paputene, to be issued to all the Europeans who care about visiting Tokomaru on the 21st of this month—this day week. We are authorised to say that all will be welcome, and the rights of hospitality will be extended to them with much pleasure. The occasion is the opening ceremony of a runanga or meeting-house, recently built at Tokomaru, a district proverbial for the good treatment all Europeans receive at the hands of their Native friends, and in which Mokena Paputene resides. It is expected that about 2000 Maoris will assemble at the feast, and the preliminary formalities gone through some days before the 21st, in order that no delay or inconvenience may be caused to Europeans when they arrive. In short, to use the apposite words of , Pap utene, “ the principal business of “ the meeting will be Native dances. “ Come to the merry making of our “ district; do not stay away from “ among us.” We learn that, in the event of a sufficient number offering, the s.s. Eosin a will be laid on for Tokomaru, leaving this port on Tuesday night, and returning on the following Friday.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 977, 14 September 1881, Page 3
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201Tokomaru Meeting. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 977, 14 September 1881, Page 3
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