THE AUKATI.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 817, 11 September 1877, Page 3

THE AUKATI.

Sißj— T : see by a late issae of yoar paper that the kingites contemplate keeping the I aukati more strictly there heretofore. Now, this affair of an aukati kept only by the natives,' appears to me to be a very > onesided arrangement. If the Maoris keep it why not the Europeans also; Withont going into the original blander of recognising an aukati at all, 1 will suppose we are ready to : make the best of a bargain, : and; even turn it to advantage. Let, 1 say, the Government keep the aukati vigorously as Tawluao does, and allow npikmgite inside, Bnd no kupapas out, <or at least, if they chose to go, make, them, remain, there. Should a kingite beVfbnnd m any of the townships give him a 5 period of solitary confinement, and crop his hair. A little wholesome barbat(ity) would do good, and I'll wager that within a year the aukati will be abolished, and that gladly, by the the very"'neople : >whp now appear, so anxious to enforce iiti I can fanoy this soheme finding opponents among perhaps a few frontier storekeepers, who would' see mi.it an! immediate loss of custom, bullet them consider the frontier gains, when the natives have been brought to their senses, and free and auricaole intercourse between, the two raceß i"h thej-e* snltj^-l* kny &c., Habakktjk-Rnook. ABOUT. _ .