The Wharepouri: The House of Sorrow.

Maori Record : a journal devoted to the advancement of the Maori people, Volume I, Issue 1, 7 November 1904, Page 4

The Wharepouri: The House of Sorrow.

In the Thorndon district, near to the Parliament Buildings, is a hostelrv much frequented by Natives, and the quiet orderly demeanour, the serious countenances of those Natives, frequently speak respectively of an almost thorough adoption of European habits of the better kind, and the urgency of the business in hand. That business is the seeking after redress of grievances by petition to the neighbouring Parliament, the pursuit of a spectre of the most elusive kind. But hope springs eternal in the Native, as in the British, breast. The grievances are, in many cases, heartrending, in some of foul origin. They are almost all in relation to land, and one day s sojourn in that admirably kept hotel is a liberal education in the faults and mistakes of a long succession of administrators of all parties.