A Maori Embassy.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12, 5 May 1914, Page 5

A Maori Embassy.

THE TREATY OF WASTANCI MAY EXPECT COOL RECEPTION. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received, 8.0 a.m.) London, May 4. It is anticipated that the King will not receive the Maori chiefs arriving to discuss the treaties. Amongst the passengers who booked by the Niagara, sailing from Auckland, to Vancouver at the beginning of April, were Te Rata (the Maori “King”), Tupu Taingawaka (his adviser), Paul (an interpreter), and Meta Turaka (a chief), who proceeded to England to lay before the authorities there certain grievances of the race in connection with the restoration of lands confiscated as a result of the Maori wars, and conservation of fishing and forest rights, all referring in a way to the historic Treaty of Waitangi. The movement has been initiated by Tupu- in the face of strong opposition by other natives, and after the matters had been discussed for two days by a meeting of 300 Maoris. Years ago a similar visit was made to England by another Maori “King,” an ancestor of Te Rata, and the result of that expedition was certainly not encouraging. The Maori delegates expect to bp away from New Zealand six months.