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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 15 June 1907, Page 4

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Ago a oerfoiin young from the East Coast village nestling under ■Sf'slopea. Tlie dusky lady was ■Sepossessing in appearance, and Epilog natiics of the kianga vied Kfi flip. othar in paying her attcnmai in the good old-time style of Eeeston did these young braves do parting, but in the semi-civilised ■"peculiar to Maori youths of the f . day. Evtntually the dusky [(•lied a meeting, the outcome of itras a decision to hold a concert mce in the most u(Afo-date and braved European style in honor fair visitor. This meant some nj>. This obstacle was got over by MPinber a certain ]E* from liis next pay, and fcjta good lurk for a large atteii?Next, day the committee set out I E'llMKst township, and hired the pall.- The local baker was interlaid a first-class supper was or-: eventful evening. Musicl- I ftefaa} were engaged to supply the the concert and dance. light of the great gathering ar|bd the committee awaited with j Ma anxiety to<see what sort of a Kwould eventuate. ■ They were Relieved, however, and by the W concert was announced to start wing was crowded with an cx|sea of faces, a very good proporgrhieh were pakehas. The Maori IBf the jjjidience .was gaily dressplftßy the ladies. The local PjOuL evidently turned up all his . jgnew stocks of ribbons, laces. and such finery. In fact, it I ■ ptt say that the interior of the ( re: before .presented such a blaze | (wcy.. - The concert was well ar- ( pThe -committee had appointed as ; pr a young, fine-looking native ( fe- several English sentences. He | Bfelltly studied his part closely, s ut his duties to the letter. I lis announcement of each item as the item itself. duets, and eves quartettes taown songs and sung in pid|ih to piano accompaniment) a H'. irsides hakas, poi dances, I p canoe races, and scraps of u ftgagas the membera had pick'various entertainments. Each t g«*ed vociferous applause. The I iwere out for a night'B fun, and t Eyed hemselves accordingly. I rt by the chairman s a hearly vote of thanks to t KWiUbo incidentally mentioning (|

I|W • • * ' |hns then cleared for a dance. Sjj&rstlly npected that this part proceedings would be full P»; and bo it was. The dusky wont of the dressing room and | ikselvea along the seats at the 18 was a bit of a halt, because jja seemed timid about taking w long as these braves bad the betteT of the wings on the lehind after they had I ( footlights for a few minutes sld up. But take the 1| jijslrl- Not they. They left jfe' to look nfter themselves, inevitable that the Inky emales would be either I torero" else have to dance I pother, a number of palcehas ' 69- rescue, jfoch one of these i !'a'partner, and in bis most Sipakeha-Maori lingo requested | dance. {The music jj*nd away they went. To atSescribe the scene would be iMark Twain's, or Borne other jprd 'picturer's pen. It was ib be a waltz, and as many of '■ Rod never before attempted »bme of the performances put 1 records. The music Mi fine swinging step for five lpsn minutes—twenty -five mingpafcehas were dripping with BSintt they were too gallant to requested to do so by Esers. How long this sort of jpljl bare lasted it is difficult to jljjtuiot been for the fact that Jfrpakchaß—who bad essayed the jMtof tripping around with a Ketone four pounds armful—|lit the floor through sheer exj&;The piano stopped, and a halt {fir Many other dances were aping the evening, but none of Sped more than five or six mint is stated that the pakehn laid for a couple of days ecover. But about ths Until the (lancing portion nme came along several of ves had partially laid siege but when they refused to 18m in the ballroom her adthem was turned to silent I a few days later she took i for fields afresh And pas- • » R {Often Baid that the Maori is a I fonin of his pakeha brethren, but gjj|some points on vrliich the wily itf jnuch (Jie superior of the pala a Maori pah down the line a jfpa Jj&ck a native had a field to (fljfe owned a horse but the plough lid .be worked with only the one he decided to ask a neighborj§rj[ for the loan of a horse. Native particularly good horse, but

|toaUow any other person to use a fine black in color with a fiithe centre of his forehead and pMiul foot. The would-be ploughto cultivate his field Quite determined that his Org black horse should do a share

ggpjjc. So in the stolid fashion pejlp.tlie Maori lie squatted down out a plan which, as will ! g&jpw both ingenious and effective. Bp§ning the owner of the black animal, and,after an uugto hntit, he bethought himself of request for the loan of the

Bfelooked across the paddocks, and §jfc£spled the plough at work, and, ( fonngli. one of the horses was a pnisl In high feather he sloped j&p intervening fields, the warlike forebears rising witliin biin. |SiT a rail, and fairly swooped Kin the plough. When within a he stopped dead, and looked ffi;the horse. Surely that was his jpffiy* l same action, the same splen* feiagp ) white foot or white jgtheiace. With a bewildered look .the ploughman whose horse he llijurf r M py Korry! That te koot all same mine, only hj? WgnCti wjrite face," he explained. BEgfiftUn assured' his neighbor that a new purchase he bad BBSijjtV pakeha farmer. Tlie search continued for four or HIKmI'W&B just about to be given HBBwfr:was the joy of the oWn»r ■Brape the horse grazing in bis the worse for its al>present the owner ha* tin ravel the mystery, the Wlwle thing to the quite pleasrd with e ha: "That miserable feller, hoiho Wrti make I. fix bkn up ,r ket him and aiultl .white foot.