Titokowaru Moralises.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4324, 9 November 1882, Page 2

Titokowaru Moralises.

(Pee Pbess Association.)

Hawera, Yesterday,

The occasion of Tapa te Waeo visiting Okaiawa to present Titokowaru with a canoe was utilised by the latter chief for the purpose of addressing a few words of instruction and admonition to his tribe. The natives had been informed of the intention of the Government to lease the remaining portion of the continuous reserve, and doubtless there were many who raised a murmur at the prospect. Titokowaru told the people that they were in no way to resist, whatever the Govern» ment chose to do; that although the survey lines were taken through their standing crops aud encroached upon their dwellingplaces, they were to be quiescent. The next subject upon which he addressed them was the stock running on reserves. He told them to be careful how they caught and sold horses, and in catching a horse to make perfectly sure the beast was their own, and although it might be unbranded they must recollect that it might be the property of their pakeha neighbors, and consequently great care must be used for that; and though they had suffered loss through their horses having been stolen by Europeans, they must not retaliate in kind. The address was a general recommendation for all to remain quiet and orderly, and in conclusion he rebuked those among his people who, to make themselves big in the eyes of their European neighbors, were in the habit of boasting that they were the owners of such and such a a piece of land.