Where Mystery Broods.

Maori Record : a journal devoted to the advancement of the Maori people, Volume I, Issue 1, 7 November 1904, Page 5

Where Mystery Broods.

Surrounding the Natives who are collected in Wellington to further their petitions to Parliament there is ever present an atmosphere of suspicion and intrigue. It is something more than the mistrust of the presence of the opposing party or his agent, which is natural to litigants. It is a suspicion of the übiquitous attendance of the secret representatives of a third factor, which collects its data in the dark and uses them in an insidious manner. The belief is its ■existence is general, and it by no means leads to an excess of cordiality. Paradoxically, the phantom, it would appear, may be appeased by the manipulation of £ s. d., which letters are not part of the Maori alphabet. The power of the Government would banish it for ever. But the Government knows not of its existence.