Te Pipiwharauroa 122

Te Pipiwharauroa 122

No. 122

1908/05

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 122, Gisborne, May 1908.

‘As clouds deck the heavens, so feathers enable the bird to fly.’ [cf. Nga Pepeha 352]

THE CHINAMAN’S AXE

When people look at the Chinese they observe their subdued appearance and the way they do not engage in any work besides cultivating their gardens, and they may mistakenly think that the Chinese are stupid. It is true that it is only those of low status who come to these islands while the nobler people remain in their homeland, but for wisdom and cleverness few people can match Johnny Chinaman.

Despite its weakness and despite the desires of the great powers for its land, China is untroubled and its land remains untouched. Napoleon Bonaparte said, ‘Shake China and you shake the whole world.’ If the 400,000,000 bestir themselves, who is going to shout a warning at them and say, ‘stay there lest you cross my border.’ The forces of China are increasing - their army and their naval vessels.

In the fighting between China and Japan, China was defeated and the whole world wondered at the closeness of Japan and Russia. Perhaps that is why Japan was so arrogant. There were many troubles in China with its own people fighting against the Government. Many young people from China were going to Japanese colleges to learn the ways of the modern world; when they returned to their own land they told the people to demand that the people be entrusted with the government. (The royal house of China came from a different nation – the Mongols.) The rebels were intent upon stockpiling guns, powder, bullets, against the day of conflict while the Government was seeking to prevent the rebels getting these things. Its warships were continually patrolling its shores. A Japanese ship, the Tatsu Maru, came close carrying a cargo of guns for the Chinese rebels. On hearing this the Chinese Government sent a man-o-war to seize it. It was easily taken and the guns were unloaded onto craft to take them ashore. The ship having been seized was taken captive to Canton. When Japan heard that one of the ships from their country had been captured, their anger blazed up and they said that this was an insult to the flag of the Mikado of Japan, and demanded that Japan write a letter asking China to return the ship and to repay expenses incurred and to honour the Japanese flag. Because the Government of China realised its weakness it agreed. The governor of Canton did not agree, he wanted to fight because it would be demeaning for China to honour the Japanese flag, however the Government view prevailed and this trouble was settled. But it left behind great pain. The Chinese were discontent with their defeat and humiliation, so they sought in their hearts [2] some means of avenging their defeat and discovered a way. The livelihood of the land depended on selling to other countries, just as New Zealand sends her food to England. The idea came to the merchants of China everywhere to target Japanese ships carrying goods from their places, to stop sending goods to Japan or receiving them from Japan. If a Japanese ship sailed from China not a single Chinese would travel by that ship nor would they provide even a handful of food, so the ships would sail empty. If Japanese ships sailed from Australia it was the same. Because of this Chinese idea Japan is suffering in these times. The Chinese wanted to see Japan suffer to the extent of £60,000,000. The women had the same determination not to eat food carrying Japanese labels. This was a greater problem for Japan that the money expended on the war with Russia. Soon the Japanese ships will stop sailing because they are not making money. This is the Chinese way of getting revenge for their suffering: there has been no shooting or shedding of blood, but while their detractors wail and tut-tut, the Chinese do not raise their voices but always work silently.

We have written this article on purpose: we want us Maori people to take notice and to be united in our loyalty, not only to King Edward but to us Maori. Our girls and boys belong to the Maori People and we must not be jealous when other Maori succeed, because we have heard some people saying, ‘Well, when the Pakeha have taken the land everyone will be poor.’ Some Maori think that it is better that the Maori suffer and the Pakeha flourish, that the Maori be poor and the Pakeha be the bosses. If we Maori are one people then if one person suffers then all suffer, or if one is honoured then all are honoured. We know some Pakeha who have ill-treated some Maori, but those Maori still give money for those Pakeha and work for those Pakeha. If they were Chinese or Japanese or Irish these Pakeha would not receive any attention. Should the Pakeha despise or ill-treat the Maori no Maori would work for him or buy goods from his building, waiho atu ma ratou na whakapakeha ia e whakarahi ? but in fact by their assimilation into the Pakeha world they make much of him. Some Maori make a practice of lying down before the Pakeha, believing that it is obvious that the Maori are dying out. Te Hukanui wants some people to go and cultivate his forest, which is better than going to the Pakeha. It is the great desire of the Pakeha to take the lands of the Maori; why should we work for Pakeha like this? Notice how the Chinese behave, one does not see all the things he does. Many Pakeha despise the Maori because his skin is a different colour. If a Maori is despised for the colour of his skin this is a jibe against the whole Maori people, and so it is right that one should get angry and seek to teach that Pakeha to stop his sneering. Some Pakeha are jealous of educated Maori children because they have Maori skin. One Maori child has suffered this here in Gisborne. If a person has a love for his people, a concern for his skin, he will not be able to avoid the pain of his heart. One of the people who despises Maori is a sheep owner. Now if it were a Chinese person who was despised then that Pakeha’s sheep would not be shorn. This jeering because of our skin colour will continue to increase if the Maori People do not combat it. One of our great problems is the number of public houses set up by Pakeha in our areas. Those houses are sucking the blood of Maori. Maori petitioned to close down a public house in Waiapu, but the Pakeha composed a petition to keep that house, to defeat the Maori. Only the Maori drank there. Sympathetic Pakeha voted to end the sale of liquor, the unsympathetic continued to support it. While we Maori who are the ones who suffer greatly have no vote but just sit and look on. But if Maori were a thoughtful people like the Chinese those public houses would be done away with. The one in Waiapu and in other places perhaps would be done away with. We would be a dry area. Not a single Maori would drink in that house. This is the axe to cut up that kind of house. Our suffering is very great [3] because people think only of their own pleasures and forget the welfare of their people as a whole. People, we have been confined amongst the Pakeha, therefore let us unite, let us care for each other, let us stick to one another, because we are not an ignoble people but a warrior people, a noble people through our blood and through our land. An attack on the person of an individual may be forgotten, an attack on the name of or the skin of the people at large causes suffering: seek a remedy, take up the axe of the Chinese.

THE SOURCE OF WISDOM.

The man who discovered the wire to transmit speech, the telegraph wire, was Professor S F Morse. Someone asked him about his discovery:

‘When you were searching for a way to send speech by wire, were you not disposed to think that you would not discover it?’

‘Yes, I had many such thoughts.’

‘And what did you do about your thoughts?’

Morse replied:

‘My answer is just for the two of us because the world does not know. At those times when I did not know what to do, I prayed for enlightenment.’

‘Yes, and did you get enlightenment?’

‘Yes. When I received congratulations from America and Europe for discovering the telegraph wire, I said that it was not I who should be honoured. God gave electricity to mankind as a thing to help him and God was pleased to reveal it to me.’

When Morse set up his wire, the first message he sent over the wire was:

‘Behold, what God hath wrought.’

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A four-master ship called President Felix Faure, sailing from New Zealand to France, struck an island off New Zealand, the Antipodes. Twenty-two men survived. They were several months there before being found by a naval ship. They were brought to Lyttelton. They survived by eating albatross.

A RESPONSE TO THE MORMONS.

To the Editor of Te Pipiwharauroa.

Friend, may God’s grace and peace be upon you and your Committee and all who support the work of our Pipi, under the blessings of our Creator. This is a letter from me and also a report to be seen by those who support the Mormon Church and the Church of England. It is to be scanned and considered by the hearts of each man, woman and child, by all thoughtful people. Our main subjects, those raised by Te Tuiti Makatanara, a supporter of and preacher for the Mormon Church, are dealth with below.

First subject. This concerns the three divisions of the Church of England – High Church, Low Church and Broad Church. It is so. I have enquired into this matter, and agree that that is the case. But there is only one entity, the Church of England, with its Bible, its Prayer Book and its hymn book. There is one Church, only the practices of worship differ.

Second subject. This concerns the payment of preachers. It arises because the Mormons say that the Scriptures do not approve of servants being paid. My friends, this is approved by the Scriptures. Look at 1 Corinthians 9.7, 11, 13, Galatians 6.6, and 2 Corinthias 11.8,9.

Paul was at fault because he did not ask the Corinthian Church to support him, rather he looked to the Macedonian Church to provide his necessities. (2 Corinthians 12.13.)

But, my friends, you are not right to criticize the payment of the preachers of this Church. What about the provisions and beds you give to your Pakeha Mormons? Because all these things were acquired with money. If you add up the money used on these 70 or 80 Pakeha it would amount to £2000 expended in a year. But let me say that it is a sign of your love for our Pakeha. My friends, this is just the same as the love the Church of England has for its Preachers. It is the case that the burden of providing the clergy stipends falls on all the people while the Mormons burden just a few people.

Third subject. This is about Baptism. My friends, you will not find in Scripture a firm statement as to whether baptism should be by immersion or by sprinkling. So, when John baptised Christ and all the people of Judea and Jerusalem (Mark1.4-5 and 9.12) it is not clear that this was by immersion. And the baptism also of the [4] family of Israel – I would say that the baptism of these thousands of people was by sprinkling, but the authentic account tells us that it was by sea spray and the mist in the clouds of heaven (1 Corinthians 10.1-2). Only the Egyptians practised immersion; perhaps they were Mormons. But, my friends, let us look at the meaning of this word ‘baptism’ and the translations of these understandings which they have put into Maori from the Greek language.

Look at the dictionaries – Collins, Pitmans, Webster, and Pears Cyclopaedia. There we have the elucidations from the English angle, but in our search let us go back to the source of this word ‘baptism’, and look at this word in the Greek language. If you look at the Greek book you have:

Bapto - Вαπτω

Baptizo - Вαπτιζω

However, my friends, in the time of our ancestors it was said by these elders of ours that baptism was practised. That symbolic use of water involved sprinkling and prayers. But this Church did not criticize it. The Church of England from past times to the present day has approved of baptism by immersion and baptism by sprinkling because these words have the same origin. To the Church the most important thing is not whether it is by immersion or sprinkling, but it is the water, the words and the Spirit within. So then, is the person who has been immersed better than the one who has been sprinkled? The Mormons did not discover baptism by immersion; the Mormons came afterwards.

Fourth subject. In the matter of your preachers, you talk about the commitment of your Pakeha who have come here from America to go around preaching. Yes, you are right, and it is the same with the Church of England. I tell you that Mormon preachers number less that a quarter of the Church of England members who are going about preaching in the world, and the Church sends out its missionaries to those places other Churches have not ventured to. These missionaries give themselves completely, even to death. Many more of these missionaries have died than have Mormon preachers. This is the Church whose missionaries arrive in savage places before the Mormons, even coming to us Maori. The Mormon stays for three years and then returns to Utah. A great deal of money was spent by the Pakeha in their search for New Zealand: that is not the case with the Mormons who rely on the Maori to feed them; they do not stay in hotels. When their term is completed few will come back. They have a lovely picnic. But what Wiremu Takana, a member of the Mormons, says is true. He said that the Church is not under the law. I respond, yes, but in England that law and that Church have the same origin.

Fifth subject. This concerns the land from which the Maori migrated. According to the Mormons and Te Tuiti the Maori migrated from America. I whakahokia e au kei nga tohu me nga mahi te ritenga. However according to S Percy Smith we Maori came from Malaya. The ancestors of these tribes and our own ancestors were valiant at travelling by canoe and at fishing. At that time the many Maori tribes migrated by way of the many islands of the Pacific. The names of these islands are Eastern Archipelago, Micronesia and Polynesia. Within Polynesia the islands we hear of are Hawaiki, Samoa, Tonga, Hawaii, Tahiti and others. These islands form a line starting at the mainland and as far as this place. America is 2000 miles away. Note that the activities of those native peoples are the same as ours – the construction of native houses, carving, and other things. I am not able to tell the full story; better that you buy that book. These native peoples continue to do things in the same way as their forefathers up to the present day. But those skills are being lost with the coming of the Pakeha, as is the case with us here. There is very little difference in how those peoples do things from the way we do them.

But according to the story told by the Mormons and Te Tuiti our ancestors came from America. My friends, those people were tent dwellers from early times and up to the time when they were discovered by the European, Christopher Columbus. Then they began to abandon some of the customs of their ancestors, just like those native peoples spoken of by S Percy Smith, as did our own ancestors. Te Tuiti replies that over many centuries those people, the Redskin tribes, forgot. My friends, this is a childish answer. I say, my friend, if your answer to my question is like this, why didn’t the ancestors of these native peoples, including our ancestors, also forget, because they too lived over many centuries? My friends, I have not finished dealing with the conversations between Te Tuiti and myself, but I said in that gathering that that gentleman should come here to Gisborne to Te Rau College and he and his friends could say that the ministers are afraid of them. Epanaia Whaanga supported that proposal. [5] My friends, summon your warriors. As the ancestors said, 

 Hei tou marae koe toa ai.
‘It is easy to be brave on your own marae.’ 

My friend, Te Tuiti, don’t let anything stop you. If you have the shining light, bring it here. Do what Christ says (Matthew 5.14-16).

Another thing, as to the request of the Mormons who say that this Church should set up a hui for a disputation, no! This Church does not condemn other Churches. It would be better were you to hold such gatherings alongside you annual hui. Do not shock these preachers with the learning of the Mormons.

From your affectionate friend,

Rangi Tuanui Tamihana.

Muriwai, Gisborne.

[We were of two minds about printing these articles at length because some people do not like controversy, but because Rangi really wished it we have printed them. We don’t want any Mormons to take it upon themselves to answer these articles; those who may do so are Te Tuiti Makitanara and Takana. – Editor.]

‘MAURE TU, MAURE ORA’ sic.

Mauri tu, mauri ora,
Mauri noho, mauri mate. [cf Nga Pepeha 1793, Kohere p.18]

He who stands up will live.

He who sits down will perish.

or

Industry brings well-being; idleness produces insecurity.

The meaning is that if a person is industrious about cultivating food he will find well-being; if he is lazy he will not achieve well-being. Now when we turn our eyes to the newcomer to agriculture, the Pakeha, nibbling away at making a living, it always seems to be harvest time for him, while with us Maori nothing changes. When the Maori gets threepence he goes flat out along the road on his horse, continually kicking the flanks of the horse so that he will quickly reach Te Rere o Hautai from Mihaneke. where he breaks the neck of the threepence. When it is gone he hypothesizes that ‘my money was taken from the pocket of my trousers while I was in the toilet.’ He returns to his wife with a story. ‘Kui, I’ve had a bad time, I dropped my shillings on my way home. I am sure it was when I turned off that I dropped them.’ He did not get up and look. They fell beyond Paepaerau at Te Roira, at Teemupaea, at Rapiana, at Kae, at Mihaneke, and at Gisborne Hotel.

This saying applies to those many who are in that position: ‘The life that is idle perishes.’ Then there is the very thoughtful ‘child’ who goes straight home to his wife and stays there. When he gets up in the morning his weariness has gone. Then he gives his wife threepence saying, ‘This is to buy a small roast for you and our children. I am going to get another threepence.’ And away he goes! These are my heartfelt reflections on the Pakeha money which has been passed on to us Maori, the mortgage money for felling the acres that remain to the Maori. So I published my notice about this thing – being industrious – for the industrious youngsters living in their various homes, and who are eager to exercise this gift of hard work. My dear friends, this, your gift, is calling out to you and to you, Pakeha, Maori, on Waimaha-nui-a-Rua, Tahora Block. Look, and then my friends, my lads, come, come! If you get your contract in the coming March, 1908, the two of you will soon have the gift of sleeping together in the marriage bed. There is a brief saying: ‘In the evening the eyes close in sleep; in the morning many fish will be caught.’ This is in the spirit of that saying: ‘Industry brings well-being.’ And now I am pointing out to you and to you your precious gift, the felling of the bush. This bush is made up of [?auha], small bushes, bushes that are easy to fell, some you cut down with your slasher and some you can kick over with your feet. and you can get the burnt grubs scattered by this contract. The payment for an acre will not fall below twenty-six shillings. The acreage to fell is not less that 600 – the survey sets it down – and the cost of food, flour, sugar, and other food is very little. So let the person or persons who want to take up this contract come during the month of April 1908 to sign your contract, and at that time you can talk about what you want.

Best wishes to those who are coming.

Manuera Hukanui Watene.

Waimaha, Te Tahora, Gisborne.

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‘Many waters cannot quench love

Neither can floods drown it’

Song of Solomon 8.7

But one pint of beer can make it disappear.

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 A SERMON

Christ is Misunderstood

‘When they saw him walking on the lake, they thought it was a ghost and cried out; for they all saw him and were terrified.’ (Mark 6.49)

After he had fed the five thousand, Jesus urged his disciples to cross over to the far side, while he climbed the mountain to pray. He saw also that the people had been stirred up. The disciples had not been rowing for long when a great wind arose, the sea was rough, and they were tossed about helplessly. They rowed on for a long time and became weary and thought in their hearts that they were about to die. I speak of their deaths since they were close to sinking; and they grumbled at their Lord who had urged them to cross over by themselves while he stayed on the shore. The Lord they were complaining about was still thinking of them. He was on the shore looking at them in their distress and he decided to come and save them. So at the fourth hour of the night watch he came to them, walking on the waves of the sea.

‘Do not be afraid.’

But when Jesus drew near they did not rejoice but rather were fearful, In their great fear they cried out in their anguish. ‘When they saw him walking on the lake, they said it was a ghost and cried out.’ However their hearts were calmed down and their fear turned to happiness when Christ said, ‘It is I. Do not be afraid.’ The first thought of these people was fear because they misunderstood Christ.

They thought Christ was a ghost. They were afraid because they did not see him clearly and because they were mistaken – they did not understand him. Likewise, many people throughout the world are afraid of their true, loving friend; they cry out when the one they yearn for draws near; they want to run away from him who comes to help them in times of distress; because they misunderstand him thinking that he is a ghost and they say, ‘A ghost!’ and cry out.

Let us not think that it was only the Twelve who were mistaken. In their words and works people today have a similar attitude to Christ. They are afraid of Christ; they are anxious when he draws near to them; they do not like him. The main reason why people do not say yes to Christ, do not like him, is the reason why his disciples feared him. They did not look deliberately at him, they did not think carefully within their hearts, but through their mistaken thinking and their perverted actions they saw him as a ghost. Soon they came mistakenly to see Christ as something very different. By their erroneous thinking and their foolishness people do not say yes to the Saviour.

My friend, has your heart not yet wondered why people do not consent to follow Christ? Is it not a surprising thing to you that many people by word and deed say, ‘We do not want this man as a king over us’? We are not surprised since we have gone along with all those people who deny him, and eventually have come to agree with that statement. But if you consider carefully in your heart, you will not fail to wonder at the very few people who love Christ and at the many who do not love him.

‘A ghost Christ.’

Christ said, ‘I, if I be lifted up, will draw all people to myself.’ But all people are not yet drawn to him. Why? Certainly not because he is bad. There has been no man as good, loving and gentle as Christ. They have not yet really got to know him; they have not yet seen him lifted up. The Christ they have seen is a ghost, something abhorrent, a Christ of their own making. When the disciples mistakenly thought that Christ was a ghost, they were scared, but when they recognized him their hearts were happy, they were saved, and they swiftly got him on board their boat. They stretched out their hands to pull on board the Christ they had feared. Likewise, those who know Christ help him, hold on to him, are happy, and find life. The major problem of the world is not food shortage but Christ shortage, because people in their foolishness do not see him and so get contentment of the sad and sick heart.

‘Rest for all.’

‘Then he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased.’ With Christ’s getting into the boat their sadness and fear disappeared and their minds were at ease. For the person who seeks, he is the one who calms the heart, who saves, who gives happiness in the many trials of the world those battering waves and violent winds. He invites the whole world: ‘Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.’

Taken from the Daily Mail of London.

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 CARING FOR CHILDREN

Instruction about caring for premature and weak babies.

1. With children born before 40 weeks be very careful with nursing and feeding.

2. Children born before 30 weeks (7 months) and who are less than 2 pounds in weight will be lucky to survive more than a few hours.

3. Of children born at 30 weeks weighing 2¾ pounds or 3 pounds, some will survive but most will die.

4. Children born at 36 weeks and weighing from 4½ to 5½ pounds happily will survive but must be carefully nursed.

The Condition of the Premature Child.

He will have little fat beneath his skin and will therefore have difficulty keeping warm. He will quickly become cold if he is in a cold place and will quickly die.

His skin will appear wrinkled. He will not have much strength to extend his limbs. He will not cry loudly. His sucking and breathing will be weak.

Nursing.

When the child is born do not be in a hurry to wash it but wrap it in a very warm flannel. Pakeha pharmacists have available a very good thing called cotton wool. This is excellent for keeping a child warm when wrapped in it. However be careful not to warm it by the fire as it is quick to catch alight. Cut off pieces to wrap up each leg and arm and the body, and wrap him up.

When this is done wrap him up in a blanket and lie him down. When this is done fill up some bottles, two or three, with boiling water, put in stoppers and thrust them into socks and place them, one at the foot and two on either side of the child. These are to keep the child warm. The reason for placing the bottles inside socks is that the heat will be maintained for longer. Be careful not to let them touch the skin of the child: they are hot.

The baby’s nappy should be changed each time it is dirty. The wrappings around the legs, arms and body should be left in place until the baby is seen to be growing. But be careful lest the skin gets cold when new wrappings are being put on.

Keep the house warm. If a woman has a thermometer allow it to get to 70º F. If it gets warmer than this it will not be comfortable for the carers; it will be close.

Feeding.

This is the most difficult thing. It is difficult, first, when the child has problems with sucking, and secondly, when the milk has not begun to flow in the mother’s breasts.

At this stage in the pregnancy the milk can flow very strongly and the child may consequently vomit or spit it out.

This is the procedure:

The mother’s milk should be expressed and mixed with warm water – half milk and half water.

If it is seen that this feeding works, then continue it. One large spoonful should be given each hour for a week. If this goes well, the baby should be given its mother’s milk in the second week. When it is used to this the feeds should be less frequent – one feed every two hours. One feed every four hours at night.

If it cries between feeding hours it is not crying for food.

Should the child vomit, try this: Prepare the milk carefully. Purchase from the chemist some ‘liquid rennet’ and mix one teaspoon of this rennet in the two cups of warm milk. Let it stand until it is firm. When it is firm then cut up the milk which has become jelly and strain it though very clean muslin. Use this liquid as food for the child. [8] If this is left for any length of time then warm it nearly to boiling and take it off the fire.

Feed the child with half water and half this watered milk.

Feed it once every two hours. Give it one large spoonful.

If the child is not producing faeces, that is, it has constipation:

1. Try giving it a teaspoon of cream.

2. Or give it half a teaspoon of medicinal fish oil, that is, cod liver oil.

3. Or give it some clear butter.

4. Or half milk, half water.

If none of these things work, try half a teaspoon of castor oil.

By Tutere Wi Repa, MB, ChB.

TWO PICTURES.

I met a leading Pakeha in the street and he said to me:

‘I have something to tell you about, things I saw as I travelled through Turanga. When I arrived at Motu I stayed in the camp of some Pakeha bushmen. My friend, I saw there something bad. It was in the end disgusting. Those Pakeha occupied themselves with playing cards and smoking pipes, and the accompaniment of the cards and the pipes was cursing, swearing, and obscene talk. It stopped only when they went to sleep. Then I heard the last of this foul talk by these Pakeha; it was not decent. I was happy when I left their encampment.’

‘I left Motu and went to Te Tahora and slept at the home of a Maori and his children. This Maori has a great deal of land – 7000 acres, land leased from the two land companies. In the evening I did not hear swearing or a single bad word. First they played euchre, and then they provided entertainment. One of that man’s children had a violin and his playing was very good. There was much pleasure – songs, performances, laughing and conversation. Although their house was only a bush whare the people inside were chiefs. Why would a person want bad things rather than the pleasures of goodness?’

GREAT DAYS

The English Rugby Team

On 18th of this month the English Rugby Team arrived here in New Zealand. They are playing many games. There first game is in the Wairarapa, and on 4th July they play here in Turanga. There is discussion about them playing the Maori. The coming of the English is a return visit following the visit of the New Zealand team in 1905. When the English came in 1904 they beat Christchurch and Dunedin, drew with Taranaki, and were beaten by all New Zealand and Auckland.

The American Naval Fleet.

On 9th August the naval fleet of American will visit Auckland. There will be sixteen warships, the largest American ships – battle-ships. We told of this fleet when it sailed from New York during the troubles between Japan and America last year. There are thirty-five warships, most of which have stayed at San Francisco. It will be a great day in Auckland when these ships arrive, and Maori will play a major part on the day. After New Zealand the American ships will cross to Sydney and Melbourne. [There is talk of them playing England and New Zealand in Auckland at this time. Perhaps misplaced from the article about the English Rugby Team.]

Major Hui in Wellington.

It will be a great day when the major hui of the Maori People is held in Wellington on 14th July, and the spokesmen, the leaders, the heads and the chiefs of the tribes arrive at the Whanganui-a-Tara [Wellington Harbour], to consider the troubles afflicting us, and to show the Pakeha folk what we have achieved and so soften their jibes that we are a lazy people. The people who are to open the discussions and run each part of the hui have been arranged. This will be a very large hui. People, put aside your encumbrances and let us go to Wellington as a people at one, with the one thought of seeking the well-being of the whole people. It has been arranged that the Governor will open the hui on 14th July.

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[Arrangements have been made for a Maori team to play the English team. We hear that a Maori team is going to Australia. Perhaps misplaced from the article about the English Rugby Team.]

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WORLD NEWS.

England.

The main topic of discussion in the English Parliament is the Government’s Prohibition Bill. The people involved in the sale of alcohol have put aside £100,000 to oppose this bill and their petition condemning the bill has 600,000 signatures and is 9 miles long. It doesn’t matter that Asquith, the Prime Minister of England, has presented the bill; it has been said that his Government may fall as a result of the bill. Money is fighting against the right.

A great Exhibition has been opened in London by the English and the French.

America.

When the house of a woman called Guiness was burned down, the bones of a woman and her children were found underneath. Fifteen corpses were found. This woman used to lure people to her house and when they came she would kill them and take their money. The whole world has been startled by these terrible murders. ‘The love of money is the root of all evils.’

China.

The Chinese are effectively wielding their axe to deprive the Japanese of food. The day that Japan derided China has bee spoken of as ‘the sad day’. The women of Canton held a huge gathering at which they vowed not to eat any Japanese food or wear any Japanese clothes. Japan made more than £12,000,000 from China and now they get nothing. China is selling instead to America. According to telegrams, Japan may declare war on China.

NEWS OF THE DOMINION

The wife of a publican in Otago was continually drunk. One night she was left by her husband sleeping in a room. During the night she got up and fell. Next day she was found lying dead in the passage. The jury said that it was because of her drinking alcohol that she died so quickly when she fell. The police had arrested the husband thinking that he had struck his wife.

A Te Wairoa man, Wi Mete, has been arrested for taking alcohol to Maori villages. His fine was £10 together with court costs of £2. Many Maori are being arrested for this crime; the police are quickly onto it.

Because there was much fog when the Taviuni, a Union Company Steamer, was entering Kawatiri (Westport), it strayed ashore. No-one died but it may not be possible to tow the ship to sea again. The Taviuni is more than 1000 tons. It has been found that the captain was in the wrong.

In the middle of the night on 17th, three Pakeha appeared on a street with their pistols and began to take money, watches and rings from people. Many people were accosted by them. In the morning the three of them were seized by the police.

OTHER MATTERS.

In 1907, 395,447 people from England travelled to other countries; 24,777 came to Australia and New Zealand.

In 1905 nearly £12,000,000 was spent in England on good works: £3,892,000 on hospitals, £2,948,000 on orphanages, and £3,982,000 on preaching the Gospel.

The Pakeha have made a smokeless powder; Hiram Percy Maxim has invented a gun which does not make a report when it is fired; and we have heard that an Englishman has invented a gun which fires two million times an hour. That man wants to be paid £1,000,000 for his gun.

The people of Australia smoked 6,000,000 cigarettes in 1907, that is, 440 per person if all smoked, and the number is increasing. Maori are people who are much given to smoking cigarettes. We think that drinking and pipes are only for rich people.

The great purpose of the Bible Society is to encourage the advancement of the kingdom of our Lord, and the Bible has now been translated into 409 languages.

Recently a woman gave birth to her and her husband’s twenty-second child. All her family are alive.

A Maori was asked by a Pakeha if he knew the English language. The Maori replied, ‘No, the English language I know is English swearing.’

The name now given by Rua’s people to their prophet is ‘the ruler of this world.’ It is an appropriate name. See John 14.30.

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MAORI AREAS.

A Pakeha said that there was a great shortage of food in some parts of the Waikato. They have no potatoes; they all died of the blight. Last winter there land, houses and fences were all lost to flooding. This man said that we must show pity to Waikato.

The Rev Perere Peneti’s choir from Rotorua is travelling to the towns of the Dominion to perform. They are coming to Wellington to the great Hui of the Maori People being held there on 14th July.

A party of young people has been arranged to go to England for the large exhibition there. There are between 25 and 30 of them. They will perform poi, haka and waiata. They will visit France, America and other countries. Their leader is a Pakeha, Mr Griffiths. They sail in August and will be gone for six months.

When Mr Stout came here he spoke of the industry of the Maori of the Tauranga district, Ngaiterangi. They work hard at producing wheat, corn, oats and other foods. There is one block on which Maori run 400 cows. Mr Stout thinks that Tauranga is perhaps the most fertile part of New Zealand.

One of the practices of Rua, the Tuhoe prophet, is to withdraw children from the schools, with the consequence that some of their schools were closed. Te Waimana is one of the schools that was shut and the Government therefore said that the school should be moved and be given to the Pakeha. When the carpenters arrived to shift the building the Maori were angry and clung to the building. Word had come from Timi Kara that the building should be given to the Pakeha and that if there were plenty of children another building would be erected for them. If they had let their children remain they would not be in the position of trying unsuccessfully to retain the building.

Tuhoe and their prophet arrived in Gisborne to meet King Edward. They spread out over the countryside and afterwards entered the bush and stayed at Waimaha. When they were ejected from there they stayed at Maunga Pohatu. There they built a town for themselves, cutting down the bush. Rua continues to update the places where he lives. A temple was completed – a round building, and a sixteen room house for Rua. When Rua saw that Tuhoe were out of their minds and afraid of him he began to collect the beautiful girls of the Urewera as wives for himself. When Rua got to know of [?na mea] a beautiful girl, or children, he gave instructions to fetch them to be his wives. His wives were children, children taken by him from the schools. It is said that when the child heard that Rua wanted her as his wife she was afraid and wept, but because the parents were afraid they did not cling to their child but put her on a horse and took her to Maunga Pohatu while the child cried. Rua has nine wives.

THE POWER TO VOTE ON ALCOHOL.

The Gisborne Committee for the Prohibition of Alcohol has sent a petition to the Government asking that Maori be given the power to vote for the prohibition of alcohol. Timi Kara’s response about this matter has arrived and reads: ‘Your motion has been submitted as a matter for my colleagues and in due time it will be carefully considered.’ He also adds his own suggestions to that motion which is that he thinks that some way should be sought of denying this drink to Maori, and also that perhaps a Maori committee should be set up to observe what is happening amongst the people and also to punish those of the people who are using alcohol.

If the petitions on this subject arrive, please sign them quickly and see that they arrive with the following people before 30th June:

Rev F W Chatterton, Te Rau, Gisborne.

Rev R T Kohere, Te Rau, Gisborne.

Mr A T Ngata, MP, Wellington.

The idea is that the petition should be before the great Hui in Wellington and be taken from there to Parliament.

THE GARDEN.

This month is a good time to plant cabbages, lettuces and cauliflowers. Dig up those planted last year. Be careful not to work the soil when it is wet.. Begin this month to plant Pakeha flowering shrubs to provide hedges for the houses. Sow seedbeds of cabbages, lettuce, peas, onions, cauliflower, turnips and carrots for early planting. Those who like tomatoes should sow seedbeds in boxes and cover them with glass.

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THE MARKETS

Livestock, Produce and Fruit.

Wool. The returns from the London market for last March show that the price went down. Some people did not sell their wool at the Auckland market because the prices were not what they wanted, but when they sent their wool to London they lost out because the price in London was lower than that in Auckland. Their loss amounted to from 2½d to 4d a pound. Good quality wool sold in Auckland fetched 8½d to 9d a pound and in London 6d to 6½d.

Skins. Market prices for skins are good and holding firm. They give the appearance of rising. Sheepskins appear to be falling in price.

Potatoes. Prices for potatoes are holding firm. Those that sell best in the markets are those from the other island. These are better than those from Tasmania. The price a ton is £6/5/-, and that will probably rise this week.

Oats. The price of oats seems to be rising because of a shortage. The price in the stores is 3/2. Algerian oats are more expensive. The Moana brought 750 bags from Port Jackson and they sold for 4/6.

Corn. The price for corn is very high this year. The wishes of the market have not been satisfied. The Kaeo brought 588 bags from the Opotiki district to Auckland. They have been grabbed. The price in the stores is now 5/9d. If a person has plenty of corn to sell, now is the time. Send the corn to Auckland while the price is high.

Chaff. Chaff is fetching a good price but the price is higher in Australia. Good South Island chaff reaches £7 in Auckland.

Ear Fungus. Ear fungus is fetching a good price of 4¾d a pound.

Butter. Dairy Factory butter is 1/1½ a pound. Farm butter is 9d.

Eggs. Eggs are priced at 1/6 per dozen. In the big houses most eggs are selling for 1/8.

Livestock.

Auckland

Cattle. For milking cows - £3/10- to £6/5/-; for those that have finished milking - £2 to £3/5/-; for calves – 16/- to £1/8/-; for oxen - £4 to £5/5/-. Prices are very good for those sold for eating, that is, for beef. For oxen - £1/3/- per hundred-weight; for cows 17/- to £1; and if they are sold as individual beasts, for oxen £6/16/- to £10/2/6; for cows - £3/15/- to £7.

Sheep. For wethers – 16/- to £1/3/-; ewes - 13/6 to £1/0/6; rams – 9/6 to 18/-.

Pigs. For pigs - £1/1/- to £1/13/-; piglets – 4/- to 7/6; for bacon - £1 to £3/2/-.

Skins. Very heavy oxhide – 7d to 7½d; heavy - 6¼d to 6¾d; medium light 5¾d to 6d; light – 5d to 5½d. Cowhide – very good - 4¾d; good - 4¼d to 4½d. Calfskin – 3d to 5d; very small calves - 2½d to 3¾d; damaged - 1½d to 3½d. Very good sheepskin – 1/6 to 1/9; good – 1/- to ¼; poor – 6d to 10d.

Corn. 5/2 a bushel. Wheat 5/2 to 5/3; 5d a pound.

Christchurch

Cattle. Oxen - £6/5/- to £11; cows which have not yet had a calf - £5/17/6 to £9/10/-; cows - £4/5 to £8; sold as beef – very good – 21/- to 25/-; good – 17/- to 21/- a hundredweight. Calves – 4/6 to £2/5 depending on the condition of the calf. Milking cows £3/10 to £8.

Sheep. Wethers – very good – 18/- to 25/3d; light – 25/4 to 17/6; ewes - very good - 15/6 to 18/-; poor – 13/- to 15/-; old – 8/6 to 12/6; rams – very good, for exhibiting – 21/6; good – 15/6 to 18/9; for the freezing works – 13/- to 15/-; light – 13/- to 15/-.

Pigs. Large - £3 to £5/12/6; heavy bacon - £3/4 to £5/12/6; for eating – light 28/- to 35/-; heavy – 36/- to 45/-; young – 6/- to 12/-.

A NOTICE

These are the names of the people whose papers have been returned to us. We shall stopp sending these papers if the people do not write to us.

Miss Spencer Maketu
Piripi Pene Taupiri
G W Grace Koriniti
Tuhaka Haratiera Waimata
G A Hansard Balclutha
Hakiaha Hunia Waimata
Wiremu Tarapa Gumtown
Tamati Ngapera Taheke
Mawene Kiriwai Taipa

These are the subscriptions that have been returned but we are unable to send the paper because we do not know where these people are, and whether they wish to receive the paper.

Pateriki Hastings
Arekahanara Te Muera Rotorua
Iraia Te Whaiti Galatea
Raharuhi Tuanehu Manutuke
Rangiuhia Ranana, Wha. R.
Apiata Teiritawai Mangatuna (?)
Mokena Whatira Waiau Pa

SUPPLEJACK SEEDS FOR OUR BIRD

£1 Hemi Matenga; 110/- Rev F H Spencer; 5/- Pine Tuhaka, Manuera Waata, Wiremu Pehimana, Miss F H Bulstrode, Pire Rangi.

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 CALENDAR : JUNE 1908

Day 15 ○ 1h 25m a.m. Day 29 ● 4h 21m a.m.

1 M

2 T

3 W

4 Th

5 F Fast

6 S Vigil, Fast

7 S Day of Pentecost Psalms: Morning 43, 68

Evening 104, 145 Athanasian Creed

Use the Embertide Collect every day this week.

Morning Evening

Deuteronomy 15.1-18 Isaiah 11

Romans 8.1-18 Galatians 5.1-16

8 M Monday after Pentecost.

Genesis 11.1-10 Numbers 11.16-31

1 Corinthians 12.1-14 1 Corinthians 12.27 & 13

9 T Tuesday after Pentecost

Joel 2.1-21 Micah 4.1-8

1 Thessalonians 5.12-24 1 John 4.1-14

10 W Ember Day Fast

11 Th Barnabas, Apostle

Deuteronomy 33.1-12 Nahum 1

Acts 4.1-31 Acts 14.1-8

12 F Ember Day Fast

13 S Ember Day Fast

14 S Trinity Sunday Athanasian Creed

Isaiah 6.1-11 Genesis 18

Revelation 1.1-9 Ephesians 4.1-17

15 M

16 T

17 W

18 Th

19 F Fast

20 S

21 S FirstSunday after Trinity

Joshua 3.7 – 4.15 Joshua 5.13 – 6.21

Acts 4.32 – 5.7 2 Peter 1

22 M

23 T Vigil, Fast

24 W John the Baptist Athanasian Creed

Malachi 3.1-7 Malachi 4

Matthew 3 Matthew 14.1-13

25 Th
26 F Fast
27 S Vigil, Fast

28 S Second Sunday after Trinity

Judges 4 Judges 5

Acts 8.1-16 1 John 3.1-26

29 M Peter, Apostle

Ezekiel 3.4-15 Haggai 3

John 21.15-23 Acts 4.8-23

30 T

RULES OF TE PIPIWHARAUROA

1. Te Pipiwharauroa is published monthly.

2. The cost of the paper is 5/- a year, payable by Postal Note or stamps.

3. When the shillings sent in by someone are used up then his paper will be wrapped in red; after two such postings of the paper it will cease to be sent.

4. It is acceptable to contribute articles from anywhere in the land, but it is for the Editor to decide whether to print them or not. Write clearly.

5. Address your letter like this: TO TE PIPIWHARAUROA, TE RAU, GISBORNE.

A NOTICE

To those wanting a Prayer Book or Hymn Book. I now have plenty of books. The prices are:

Large, soft cover 2/6

Large, red cover 3/-

Large, hard cover 4/-

Large, superior cover 5/6

Small, soft cover 1/-

Small, red cover 1/6

Small, hard cover 2/6

Small, superior cover 3/6

Prayer Book with Hymns, soft cover 1/6

Prayer Book with Hymns, red cover 2/-

Prayer Book with Hymns, hard cover 3/-

Prayer Book with Hymns, superior cover 4/-

Hymns -/6

I will pay the postage to send the books to you

H W Williams,

Te Rau, Gisborne

People wanting a Bible or a New Testament should apply to the Bible Depository Sunday School Union, Auckland.

Bible, 2/6, 3/6, 4/6. Enclose a postage stamp for 1/-.

New Testament with explanatory headings 2/6, 3/-, 4/6. Enclose a postage stamp for 3d.

Small New Testament with Psalms 2/-, 2/6, 3/-, 3/6, 4/-. Enclose a postage stamp for 3d.

Printed and published by H W Williams, at Te Rau Printing Works, Berry Street, Gisborne, New Zealand.