A native was asked in a the Native Land Court sitting at Masterton, Did yon seethe man die ?” and replied “ No.” The next <1 not ion was, Have you seen him since he died ?” to which he responded, “ No I have n<4 been to hell “ But perhaps,” urged iiis interlocutor, “ went, to heaven,” “ No,” i rejoined the Native sadly, “all Maoris who f‘;l their land go to hell.” 1 The Wanganui “Herald” says of the late ■ Mr Seaton, M.H.R., who was killed by being i thionn out of Lis trap :—“There was no man more universally respected in the Legislature, i -a man of sterling honesty, firm in Lio • loyalty to his prim.iples, and of never failing courtesy. Air Seaton was a skilled botanist, ' and had a large range of scientific informai tion.”
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1216, 4 December 1882, Page 2
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133Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1216, 4 December 1882, Page 2
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