Te Pipiwharauroa 106

Te Pipiwharauroa 106

No. 106

1907/01

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 106, Gisborne, January 1907

THE WICKEDNESS OF MURDER

The accounts of the murder in Ngapuhi last December were horrifying. We shall not say much about this murder; murder is not a pleasant thing to talk about. The reason we wrote this article is to share some thoughts that came to us.

Te Pipiwharauroa 105

Te Pipiwharauroa 105

No. 105

1906/12

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 105, Gisborne, December 1906.

FROM THE EDITOR.

We have received a letter from Doctor Pomare in which he expresses his sadness at, and is critical of, the article by ‘Tipi-Whenua’ about Wharekauri [the Chatham Islands] in which there were some things said about his father, and he is asking us to apologise for what was said.

Te Pipiwharauroa 104

Te Pipiwharauroa 104

No. 104

1906/11

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 104, Gisborne 1906

‘THE SISTER OF TIMI KARA.’

‘Where the body is, there the hawks gather.’ A Maori translation of this saying in these days would be, ‘Where horse races are held, there the [?piira] gather.’ The Government thinks that there will be no shortage of criminals gathering at Christchurch in the months of the Exhibition.

Te Pipiwharauroa 103

Te Pipiwharauroa 103

No.103

1906/08

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 103, Gisborne, October 1906.

‘THE SMELL OF THE FIRES HAS GONE.’

In Captain Cook’s account of his arrival at Turanganui he said, ‘For the face of the Country appears with a variety of hills and Vallies, all cloathed with woods and Verdure, and to all appearances well inhabited, especially in the Vallies leading up from the Bay, where we daily saw Smoke at a great distance inland.’ [Captain Cook’s Journal] The elders still hold on to memories of the days when the face of the land was covered with houses and people. Now in these days the land has been lost - lost people, lost land.