MAHUKI ON TERPSICHORE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2055, 8 September 1885, Page 2

MAHUKI ON TERPSICHORE.

Mil M.hiuki, who .1 couple <>f ye.us ago ichieved sonic little nntniiety lit connection with .1 formidable raid of kun .ui<i ill conditioned n.iti\c-> on Alexuidii, ami who is at picsent "doing" the Waikato with a tioupe of To Whiti's follower, is now, it w>uld seem, posing us a social nfoimer. A correspondent who has been interview ing him at Cambndge sends i\» the following. — '" Macaulay's New Zei lander is a. possibility after all. I was mtei viewing the. colebi.vted M.ilmki about the hak.vs lecentlv performed m tho I'ainbndge Hall. His ongiual opinions uffoided ino ninuh food for philosophic meditation. "The fact is," >ml our ([inndam 'bieakei of locks' (a de-ignntion which need not be confined to Stanley) this is a new dep.ii tin e. Wo nio aw.ue of the depia\ity of Kuropeans m then ballets as }uoduced at their vauoiis theatres and circuses. Wo die .Miaioth.it the spectators go there sunplv to observe tho display of unsophisticated cuhes and liniited di apery. Wo h.i\o determined to set an example. We Maoris, w it.lt oui •uhaneed knowledge, have discaided the ways of our oii^mal old foiet itheis. Their piactice-. in tins tespect weie bad. Ours aro gomi. Wo hold this highly nioial and intellectual cnteituniiient ii|> as a means of affoidin^ useful pueepts to our benighted Kmopeui biethom. In these h.dvas wo illustiate. how decency and u'spuetability can hn sti icily adlieied to in ii seuos of stage dances, and how tho public can be suitably cateied to, without appeal ing to thrir Miluni' tastes. Take en c young iiiivii ti> fi>llow this halut>>r\ example m your \ iiious walks in hfe. ' I bioko <l<>\vn at tlio end of this tino harangue and aetu dly wept. I had as much of a tyiug-up fioni this in ti'lleetnal and tiuly inoi.il snage as oui ftiend Muistlioiise had, only in .i ditfeiviit way. 1 wept foi the eiroi> of oui deluded aniUwickxln'ing white biethien ,md sisteien. Mahuki smiled a saulome and sarcastic gun, mid Htulkod away majestically, leaving mo alone with un giief.

\ixitois tn Auckland fiom Walk i to wi'tild (In woll to patronise Mi T. H. Hunlim'k I'aunly Hotel and (_'<>Hki> l'.il.u-e, iMniki't Minut. I'lvciy accommodation i' |iio\ulrd fi>i M>iti>i-<, uni) time .u e hot ami viild imtliH, S:c., <m the pi enures, while the moans »( iouio.ition aio foithcouung in the Rlmpn <>t ii iviKutello table .mil jnano. Thn tiuilf ih 0Ni i CiM!iii|(!\ l(i\v, bo.ud being £1 |utr wook, mid nil full meal* Is. l*i nili"i •• .in* in-v tt«-»l for tin- stock »nJ buildin (js in the QbtaU ol Jonathan Hill at Wjolu.