MAORI HAKA AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2055, 8 September 1885, Page 3

MAORI HAKA AT CAMBRIDGE.

A moi l'F of miiiio tlmty Maori peiformeis, styling themselves the Main 1 Xo\ elty Com pany, gave an entertainment in the Cam bridge I'nbhc Hall on Fmlav and Satin day niKlit last. The company i* under the leadeishipof the celebrated Mahuki, win. will be remembered in connection with the detention of Mr Hursthonse, and numbers among its members, many of the follow en of the self styled prophet Te Wlnti, while many of them assisted to swell the ranks of the political pi hi men whoweie eaptmed .it Pauhika." The hakas gi\en l>v the troupe possess tin 1 ment of being entuely dnested of the indecent ti. uls that usually chaia<torise the Maori h.ilc.i ; indeed, the whole performance was one to which any one could take hit wife 01 children with .x full assurance that while witnessing a scene suggestive of old Maondoni, theie would be no danger of their susceptibilities being in any way shocked. In the poi dance, which is a decided no\elty even to old residents of tins district, the rhythm of the movement was leinaiUably good. Oni Maon fiiends h i\e always held the leputation of excellent timists If their tnne «.n equally good, they would be haul as beat as musicians.