THE STRIFE IN THE CITY BESIDE THE RUNNING WATER.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 431, 20 February 1875, Page 2

THE STRIFE IN THE CITY BESIDE THE RUNNING WATER.

Now it came to pass in the days when Normanby the Governor did reign over the land fetching beyond the great sea, that there dwelt in the city of Hamiltoniura, a certain man whose father had bean a toiler in the woods and n\ was named after him. Now this man was a buyer of sheep and oxen and when he hnd bought them, lo he slew them and sold thecircises thereof to the people of that place. Now his business that he did, waxed exceeding plenty, and all that he had, increased greatly, so much so that he looked far a helpmate and took him to wife a damsel from among the daughters of that place, and when she gat to his horns he said unto her, "Bshold now I pray, thee, when I go forth unto the fields and highways to buy me fat oxen and fat sheep, do thou serve in mv housa the flaoh of the kine that I hive killed uit-i the strangers who come to buy," and she diJ so. Njw there aLs> cl.velt in that city a nun whom the clnef raler of the people had sent forth to keep peaca among the unruly, and he ordered him if he fjuud any umj a uong them who took from another waat waa not his, or killed his brother nnlawfully, to take him and plaw irons on his hands and thrust him into a part of the. .ruler's house wherein was no light and verily little hut water and bread to nourish his body. This man also had looke 1 up 311 the daughters of the land and seeing them to be fair, had taken unto himself a wife, one who was of no small proportion and fair withal. Now in course of time behold this m*n, the keeper of the peace, returning from his labours found himself an imngereJ, and he said unto his wife, " Arise now I pray thee, take the basket that thou hath, an-i get thee to the house of the dealer in flash ami buy ms some meat that I rn*y eat and be ni3rry, an.l take >vith thee my' purse wherein are some shekels of silver and piy the man for what thou g-efctest,' and she arose and went forth straightway to do her husband's commands. Now when she came to the hoitee whither she desired, b the master thereof was away among the people, as was his wont, buying from them their fat oxea and she found only hi.s wife there to serve her. She therefore spike unto her and s«d, "Attend now I pray thee, behold my husband is an hungai-eJ and he hath straightway charged me to get him some flesh that he may eat, give me therefore the hinder part of a sJieejs even the leg thereof, let it be savoury an I welt-fl ivoured, for he it* a sironr man and liketh good meat." And the woman did so, anl when she ha I weighs I it, the wife of the -keeper of the p^ace paid unt.) her the money which her husband had given unto her and depirted. Now it further happened in those days that the chief ruler said unto the keeper of the peace, " Arise now, 'get "thee untu the city of Kihikibi, and tarry thou there until I send for thee." So he 'arose and saddled his ass, yea his very strong ass, and placed, his wif* thereon and departed. Now after he had tarried there many days, the chief ruler ordered him to return to the same plac? wherein he had used to stay, so he arose and did so, and lo after he came thither, the w,fe of the dealer in flssh spike unto the wife of tiie keeper of the peace and said unto her, " Pay mI besafch thee for the flash thou hadst from me, even the leg of fche'sheep, when thy husband was an hungered of former times." Aud the wife of the keeper of the peace waxed excatding wrath and laughed her to scorn, whereat they both of them arose aud took their case before the chief in lei of the people and the el lers thereof in the congregation of the people. Row when they were all athere I together the oie gat to her a learned man of the same city to whom she paid twelve pieces of gold to plead her cause before the chief ruler and the elders of the people and the other sent to a distant '•ifcy for a learned man, even a mm of joy, to plead .for her likewise. An. lit came to pass 'that these learned men did talk of the two shekels of silver aud ten piecas of money which were demanded for the leg of the sheep until they waxed %cary and the witnesses, two score and ten, who testified what they kujto and what they knew not, did weary also unW the going down of the sun, whereupon the chief i\.ler having called for silence in the judgment hall, oointnanled the' women eac'i to return to her own home and each one to think that she hath gained a \ictory ov*r lier ueigMcur, and they diil so. Taea the congregatio-i j«»yfiuly nrose, and straightway made their way to a keep er of refr.shm3.lt anl one man sai4 to another, "What drinkest thou brother 1 ? and when each man had called for that which seemed good unto him, behold they drank and then each man departed to his own home. Now the c'lief ru.'er further commanded the keeper of refreshment there to get hint- the horns of an ox and to have gra -en thereon the figure of a milch cow whereto shou.d be seen a woman palling at thy head aud a woa.an at the tail, and tiie learned m3n, even the pleaders of the law, taking the milk therefrom, and he did so, and it was known unto all men. - *

M..Bk< (I balls are Wowing very fa-hiopahle in Louilo«. Ono of the uKK-t tmcce &lvi w'.ia giv't-u l»y L>nly M.uidil A fjni, and wisaut-KtiMuulinary .v.ir '1 he Prince »u«l iViuceS' ol Wales wero tlieie, au.l , every one i-. ihe W *-t f.n I To p.eieut misc.tkeMit, w,ih a-iau.e.l tint manieil lt'ii(s t^h uui At-ar tei fvatlieia i» heir h,ur, tuul uou.anxe.c whi o ..ma ; but no {.r.nibion »a.s m;ule f,,r ,h s u U ui«Ui« u m m no.l m n, a • t, iar. diim <f tlly iv )Uno <-ly m L ,takes onine.l since i he rru* i cil! won- »l uj.uhs whu-ji hul ihe f.«w. let mo c .Inn or.t lust.n f«n was r<.'p'n><e<l t)j nWu liUßuan. h au.l wmsiiMil H-i»h etcii oilur uuwi tmul) wi fagre-it .iid.mr u J -u» crtr t me, and mu&ks w^ib rew.ove „ v, fae« iiuiulfiiiurac «/ gr« -c j l>Wl e t took" } X, ( c , au ..nii jry 6arcantio r> Qiirta vu r« nduiu. On t»i» who o, th^ bull j/ruvdu more d^iwiaWc to u,t> iiost*u»» U^.a ta auuig ot , tae giioate, - o -- -- *- -» — * - «r . . . i