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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 236, 28 June 1915, Page 5

••■'IA young!native tohuriga’ named KoHi..Te Ngohe has been creating' a good deal of interest in the Waitara district by finding ithe locality of Certain .etonwt endowed with great powers according to Maori tradition. -The? finding- of n. stone, at. Bell Block is his latest achievement. A big crowd of natives, as well as several; Europeans, wore ’ in attViVdanco, the’ Maoris’•washing thelpakeha to be present. The tdhuriga chanted and then prayed to the God of the 1 Bible. The power,, it is, said, cert>e to him, and he indicated the spot where.., the stone [would be found. Two Europeans took a hand with the'spade, and after going down between v fo'ur and five feet they struck a hard substanfce. It was the.mauri. ■ yt -was rounded itform and carved on the top, with a hole in the side. In the hole tbs Maoris said there was a tauiwha. It. appears-, that this stone was stolen from Wniongoro some 45 years ago, since v.hii". time the Maoris there have had few .fish. dSTow that the stone has been recovered it is believed tiat there will be plenty. It is certain that the stone had. lain where it was found for very many years. Some trouble was occasioned recently at Te Rena, near Kakahi, by the Maoris endeavouring to prevent the Egmont Box Company's timber train from proceeding. A large number of natives are interested in the timber royalties payable by the Box Company, arid those who have the largest interests are satisfied with their conditions. Some of those, however, whose shares are small, endeavoured to stop the operations of the company until their claims were met. They placed logs and other obstructions across the rails, and held up the work of the mill for a whole <Tay. Finally, ..they consented to let the timber train proceed. It is understood that their claims, will be . enquired into. —Taumarunui Press. Lately we have hoard a good deal about ‘'.showing the white feather. ’ r and although most people know it as the symbol of cowardice, probably not many know how this came about. In the old days, when cock-fighting was -t popular sport in England, a cock which had. a white feather in its tail was generally lackirig-in courage. ‘Whether this was the, eaSc, r or whether the partisans in the sport only imagined it, it is impossibles to, eay,.