TAWHIAO'S VISIT TO HAMILTON.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1416, 30 July 1881, Page 3

TAWHIAO'S VISIT TO HAMILTON.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sib,— The late Maori entertainment is a very fair illustration of how things ate impartially carried out. It happens in this instance that the gaina were scarcely commensurate with benefits conferred, but at the aamc time it showed the side. Of course there is only one now, and it would be an insult to the intelligence of j the community, and likely be instrumental iv reviving old feuds which have happily become recollections of the pjist, were anything to the contrary to be mooted ; still a great many short-sighted people cannot even now see the use of trotting the poor old man over the bridge, to that marvel of I don't know what sort of architecture, the Borough Council offices. This rnse would have been very nice, had not two Church pillars (West) made it their business to sacrifice their spiritual welfare (partially) for their personal .aggrandisement, or it may have been solely for the good of the public At all events they went to Cam bridge on Sunday morning to find out nil about i it, and very likely they did. If so, it 18 ; little short of being contemptible, if they j obtained the knowledge, which one of I them afterwards confessed, that the natives would not turn back, that they considered it a bad omen, &c, when on a journey. Knowing this, why not have carried out the original programme! ] Tawhiao and others who wished to see j the architectural beauties of the public buildings, East or West, could have been afforded every facility for doing so, at | the same time' preventing anyone from j saying that aides had any thing to do, with , the arrangements. Only very narrow- j minded people would believe tb»t it had ; but still such is life, the best ©f men with no doubt the beat of motives (due Welt) ] often get maligned. Op« thibg is certain, | our visitors would not have been under j the necessity of seeking shelter under verandahs, iv stables, or any other available shelter ; the superior iccommo-' (lotion offered on the JEast, Bide s would have' been ample for the fullstrengxh of the company, but such is the 1 usual ex- I perience of .baying, ihort-sjghted' r people on Reception Committees.r- I X,a'T5» * c '» OVJKR THE RIVBB. HamUtbti, July 29thi' ! ' '•