RAGLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 553, 4 December 1875, Page 2

RAGLAN.

December 1. According* to. promise I wnd you tome aecotfnt of the new rehgim which is making its way among the Hauhaus, and bids fair to supersede ibe present superstition. It ia called the Tareio Karakia. Tara^o is the native n»me for the morning »tar, and the«sorvic«« are appropriately held at sunrise or e»en b-fore it. Ttte meeting vi the sth mst, i« to inaugurate the new religion, when it is expected there will be a larg« conco'irat**oi? natives. Grvat preparations are bfmg mad.» in the way of food and it is a long time «ince I have sien so much food of a purely native churaewr collected for a fea«fc In-itead of pork and pottkoes there is an abundance of iron^a, mam iku, para, aaJ otlier M-ton dJicacies. The .disciples of tbe new religion have already tt-seuiblod in Jars© numbers ne^r the King's residence, ut Uikurangi when I was there o u Monday, and inauy more are expected fro ra Kawbia and oth^r settlements. 1 attended tfae Tireao worship la<-t Suuday morning nt sunrise, and must certainly .say the movement is ■J» »tcp in the right direction. The burden of »he •pnno.ip.il prayer par. up -on that occasion was that Gh>d would give pc*ca to tbe land and bleb* Maori and Pakeha alike. There it .no wjldn Q s« oi* gesture or language and the form of w ord» ohof en waa appropriate >tnd becoming. It is » *t'p, and a long one back from Hauhauism to Chri-tinn-ty. When will the Government do somwhing in tbe matter if t ; ie iUgian and aipa road P We I hear that the Armed Constabulary are about to

be employed on public #orkf — why not oa thm. It u posit if el j • ditgrsce thtt .*n |gapgrt»«fc •ettlement as tb« shocdd be altogether oat off frobi inland t;otniitazucbtion asthii U. Jp food 4i<ie of .road to Wh«|ft What* mi^lit b« Mtfily lormed, and to th» n3ing d Uric; could bardif 'be ore^-eatiramiei.*— (Fi^jk x* xQcoasional ijk)Rß«eroif»EHr.)