IMPORTANT NATIVE MEETING. [BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Hawera, Sunday.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1947, 30 December 1884, Page 2

IMPORTANT NATIVE MEETING. [BY TELEGRAPH -PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Hawera, Sunday.

The first of a number of native feasts, which are now being held on the coast under the direction of the renewed Tltokowaru, is now taking place at Taiuorohenui, a kainga a short distance out of Hawera. Natives are present from all parts. To-day fully 1000 arrived in one body from kaingas north of the Waingongoro, as jfar as Waitara and the White Cliffs. At six o'clock this morning the advanced guard of the Northern contingent of natives passed the Wtiingongoio, near Normnnby, and shortly afterwards leached the township. On reaching the enclosure all went inside and sat down on the ground in front of a big new meeting- house. Te Mamaio, a Taranaki chief, then named the house " Kokouhikiteranoi," which was the name of a paddle used by one of their ancestors when they landed in New Zealand some 500 years back in the canoe Aotca. The chief followed by singing an old song full of allusions to the canoe and their ancestors who came in it. He was followed by Te Whetu, the man first arrested at the Parihaka fence, and who is a noted fighting man of the tribe. After this some half dozen men and one woman sang a waiat.i, in which Te YVhetti, and the whole assembly joined in a monosyllabic chorus at the end ot each veise The song was a kind of designation of the house of the descendants of the people who came out in the Aotea, the canoe, and their friends, Te Whetu, sweeping his aims in a magnificent manner over those assembled, bxpiossed an intention that it was for their use. After this some hundred and fitty ot the natives, being deputations fiom all the tribes present, took founal possession of the house, and those weie followed by as many as could crowd in. The boxes of greenstone meres were then unpacked, and were hung on poles stretched fiom one uptight to another across the open space in front of the house. Besides greenstones many hundred pounds in notes, and many blankets and shawls, etc., were exposed to view.

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