TAWHIAO AND ENGLAND

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2325, 4 June 1887, Page 3

TAWHIAO AND ENGLAND

Tawhtao still clings to the hope that he may receive help from England and the Aborigines Protection Society, as the following correspondence, published in The Aborigines Friend will show : — Broadway Chambers, Westminster. November 23rd, 1S8(>. SIR,—I beg to annex a copy of a letter which Tawhiao, generally known as the Maori King, has written to Sir John Gorsfc. The absence t>f that gentleman from England has caused some delay in sending you tins letter. We aro well aware of tlio difficulty of effective interference on the part of Her Majesty's Government in the native affairs ot New Zealand, but we hopo.that yon will bo willing to regard this as a case in which you may benetically use your influence with the colonial authorities to secure some reasonable concussion to the native race. Wβ note "'vtJ-i. regret the complaints which Tawhiau makes at the close- of hi.s letter, that the fikjie stationed at Ksuvhia is acting harshly to h'J people.—l have, &c., F. W. Chksson, Secretary. (Translation.) Whatiwhatihoe, August sth, 180. To Silt John - Goust. —Friend, for the love tint you bear the Maori tribes of the Island of New Zealand accept our affectionate greeting. Your kind letter to mo arrived in charge of our friend, Mr Fisher. In it you remark that if I have anything to say to the Government of Her Majesty I am to apply through the colonial authorities, who make the law.s for my people. Friend, this is a word of mine, listen therefore attentively. 1 have arranged a definite course of action for the future guidance of (the Maoris of) the , island. I have drawn out my petition and sent it to the New Zealand Government, so that they might place it before their Parliament." The request in my petition is :—l. For a Maori Council. 2. To suspend the courts and.surveys that induce my people to sell thejr land. 3. On account of the laws of 1852-71 having been made to govern the land and my people, I ask that authority be giveu me to govern the Maoris under them, as the Queen promised my ancestors at the treaty of Waitangi. 1 his is all that I ask. The colonial Government reply that they cannot entertain my petition! My word to you is this, if you can "see away to bring my Bill (i.e. petition) before the' English Parliament that will sit next session, lend me your assistance, but if you have not the power to help me, then sufficient, I will go on with my own affairs, my resolve is to persist, and when my Bill becomes law, not before, I shall know that this island is happy. I will send the copy of my Bill to you through our friend Mr Fisher, who will forward it.—From your true and loving friend, (Signed), Tawhiao, King. Another word concerning the work of the Government of this island. Their behaviour to us is most oppressive, and both Maoris and Europeans complain bitterly of their sufferings. This is a request to you to ask her Magisty's Ministers to send a member of their Government to see whether 1 and the Maori people or the Europeans are doing the wrong, and also to observe how my tribe is treated by the soldiers who are stationed at Kawhia, If therefore, you agree, come and see for yourself. In replying to this send the letter to Mr lusher, who will forward it to me, this is all I havo to say to you.

To Sir Jolin Gorst. The following answer was receiver! : — Duwning-street, (>th December, 18B(i. Sin,—l am directed by Mr Secretary Stanhope to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd ult., enclosing a translation of one from Tawhiao to bir John (iorst on native affairs, and to state that a copy of your letter and its enclosure will receive tho attention of the New Zealand iTovernment, to whom it will be duly communicated.—l am, <fcc, (Signed) JOHN BRAMSTOX. To the secretary 'of the Aborigines Protec-

tion Society. The secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society also notifies the receipt ot a letter from that most reliable gentleman Sydney Taiwhauga, dated January lltli expressing the hope "that the Maoris will be represented at the colonial conference in April, and declaring his willingness to «o to London for that purpose.'v Wouldn't Sydney have liked that? For unblushing?cheek commend us to Mr Taiwhanga.

Is London, last year, the correspondent of the American Register asserts, 28 persons died of hydrophobia, as shown by itatistics. ~ Sydney Smith once said that there were two modes of judging of anything—one by the tast ii£ what has actually been done m the same way before, the other by what we can conceive may be done in that way. Most of the errors in judgment concerning the work, of the world come from using only one of these tests without the other.

"DiD your story win the prize?" "N< J but it ciinn near winning it. It failed only an ono stipulation." "And what was that ?" "It was to have made the editor's hair sUnd on end." "Oh. I see. It wasn't exciting enough." "Yes, it was/' "Then why didn't it make the editor's hair stand on end ? " "He hadn't any ; he was b.\ld-headed." Ax old farniir who li id lived all his life among tho western hills of Scotland, having never travcllo 1 by rail or boat, h.id tho tumour of a visit, in the summer-time, frmn two great artist*. After being hospitably entertained, they told him they had come to paint his home. Looking round tho blackened walls of his kitchen, he said, with great earnestness, " Ech, axes, it has jnuckle need."

*'Hush!" exclaimed an enthusiastic stopping suddenly in the street; "do yo'.t hear that? Isn't that exquisite ? Ah, sir ! you are a fortunate people to have a hall where thoy can give you such music as that!" "Ye , ', sir," replied the native Bostonian ; " we are proud of that establishment. But we never call it a music-hall; it is generally spoken of as the boiler shop." Thk onia" Missixg Link.—Minister: "Of what were yon accused?" Convict: "Stealing a watch. I made a good fight about it. I had two lawyer* and proved an alibi with sixteen witnesses. Then both my lawyers made strung speeches to the jury. No U*e. I was sent up for four year.-s." " I don't woe why you were not acquitted." "Well, I confnss there was one weak point in my defence, Thoy found the watch in my pocket." The joy of giving ix not monopolised by those who can give profusely, nor evou to be measured by the amount of happiness bestowed it may rather be gauged, if at au, by the degree of spontaneity with which the heart-springs and the hand goes forth to do what they can. If indeed the element of sacrifice be included, if'there has been some toil or privation or loss freely undergone for the sake of the good . conferred, and added zest will be given to the joy of bestowing.. ■_ LoiU) Hautingtons Hour. 13 tbe home of Lord Hartington—when Lord Hartington is at home. For it is only •once a year that the illustrious Unionist stakes up his abode at hi-s ancestral hall. When the shooting season has set in the rushes are removed from the cold cement floor: carpets of magnificient pile are laid ; the old world furniture is undraped, and for a few days the heir of the Dukedom of Devonshire entertains his guests in stately apartments that remain in almost the same condition as when his ancestors held thencourt there in the days of Queen 1 lizabeth. Horse lovers wander over the stud farm, paddocks, and exercising grounds that miake Hardwick a Derbyshire Newmarket; while the breech-londer .sends tho echoes flying in the dusky wooded heights and the deep covert* that surround the deer park, upon whose undulating acres of green some of the most patriarchal oaks in the world cast their gnarled and picturesque shadows. Eleven months out of the twelve Hardwick, with its ancient glories, its great traditions, its historic associations, and its art treasures, belongs more to the British public than to its rioble 'owner'. They have the run of the place. There is no entrance fee. The excursionists, appreciating their privileges, are not ungenerous, inasmuch as they frequently leave under the ancient oaks in the park their ginger beer bottles and pork pie papers as some slight acknowledgment of the kindness shown to them at the home of the , Hartihgtons. This spontaneous tribute goee to show that gratitude is not to be enuirnnited among , the- lost virtue 3 of the Philtehnes.

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