WHAKATIWAI.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1755, 18 August 1874, Page 2

WHAKATIWAI.

(FROM OTjrß: OWN COBBESPONDENT). {

From daylight this morning the camp has been a scene of the greatest excitef men^ .^as fSthe be given;away,.and"th»re was agreat deal of woric in bringing it from the different places .where- it was; stored* and stacking it,in regular order for distribution to the difier'en^ tribes^ aTJS following was the quantity,4he ; ,;)N^ipaoa. had, prepared,; viz.:—s9 tons flour, 7 tons sugar, 1000 kits of potatoes, 20007sharks;'ri77 veryj large pigs,,l6 of f caj;tle, some 10 or 12 boxes'of tea; and two' large boxes ,cf tobacco, besides this.the large war canoeyi which was lately over at Shortland and Ohinemurij was given toMNgatinlkruj' and; t five:merjeL,ponaniusi;i ..,,,:, '-.,,\ t ' 1 The flour was placed- in along pilej some 200 feet,in length, inva,'line" with 29 posts which had been driven into the grduri'd yesterday.v Sugar,: tobacco, &c.j was placed on the top. Another pile in front of this uwaat made /up; of;epotatoes^ pigs and beef. There were also two other piles Mther backl/ma'de up in the same manner as those referred to. The ceremony of distribution commenced by the people of the place, to. the number of f ab6ut;2oO/ dia^ging rlip the» war-'iSinoe fcom the creek to where .the food was stacked 5, '/Jtb?; the?r;flagstafl^ which was dressed with flags. "When the canoef:~in iwhiSh/^were some'of the prim cipal chiefs ,an^ cliieftaine^ses, r singin^ and 'gesticulatitfg,'arrived- opposite thf pile of food, the two "big guns" werp fired, and the flags™clipped three times -f I suppos? 4n honor rof ...its occupant 4 Ema, who nas'b'eek beforer referred,to), went through the ceremony of calling out all thenan?<sS of Jthe people, hapus, &c^, to/whoni ?the fopji wasrgivenv -^ After Jyfgaiapaoa'had^given'fbott, the"different •.tribes, and,hapus w^nt; through a ? simi|ar process of sub-ditision. Chango" off; weather about taking place, which curf tails the proceedings. \ All the^morning^apparently spent in preparing, for the. great wa^, dance, tp whick th^ gde'stW wer«^i invited^y-one of the JjTgatipaoa "wero"-ing them in a manner similar to /that gone through on arriyalof th^e'lfleitl Ifwe/j I'^f r% i-