He Kupu Whakamarama

Te Pipiwharauroa 106

No. 106

1907/01

[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

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

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

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.

Te Pipiwharauroa 102

No. 102

1906/09

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 102, Gisborne, September 1906.

THE COUNCIL ACT

Since the Council Act has been repealed it is appropriate to look carefully at the content of this act, the good things and the bad things, although perhaps we are not the right people to reflect upon this law because we have not been involved with the activities of the Land Court. One part of this Act has borne fruit, the Block Committee. It is clear that most of the Act was wrong because it has not had positive results.

Te Pipiwharauroa 101

No. 101

1906/08

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 101, Gisborne, August 1906.

A MURDER AT THE RACE COURSE.

We have often pointed out that one of the evils of betting is that people’s hearts are hardened. Some people bet, one of them loses £10 and is sad, the person who won the £10 from him is happy and feels no compassion for the one who had the £10 – his heart is hardened. The one who took from him the £10 gave him nothing for his money – no property, no horse, nor warmth [werawera]; however he, by luck or theft has profited. When Christ was hanging on the cross, gnawed by pain, the soldiers gambled for his clothes – they had hearts of stone, they had no compassion.

Te Pipiwharauroa 100

No. 100

1906/07

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 100, Gisborne, July 1906.

THE LAND CONFISCATION ACT

‘On Tuesday, 8th May, in the Lower House of the English Parliament, Mr Ashley (a nephew of Lord Shaftesbury) asked the Prime Minister if he knew the Native Land Settlement Act passed by the Government of New Zealand in 1905, and if he had spoken to the King asking him to nullify that law because it contravenes the Treaty of Waitangi which was made between the Crown and the Maori chiefs of New Zealand.

Te Pipiwharauroa 99

No. 99

1906/06

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 99, Gisborne, June 1906.

THE TWO MINISTERS

New Zealand, in the house of sorrow, laments with groaning; our stomachs churned, our hearts were shocked, at the arrival of the news that Mr Seddon had died. He collapsed while crossing the bosom of the Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, struck down suddenly by the strong hand, the firm hand of death.

Te Pipiwharauroa 98

No. 98

1906/05

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 98, Gisborne, May 1906.

THE MIND OF THE MAORI

With the completion of the world and all that is in it, human beings were created – and created in the image of God. The reason, or one of the reasons, that humans are like God is because humans have an intellect. Humans were given an intellect so that they could know what is good and right.

Te Pipiwharauroa 97

No. 97

1906/04

(Maori Version at NZETC.)

[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 97, Gisborne, April 1906.

THE TRAGEDIES OF THE WORLD.

The main news in these days is of the shocking disaster that has struck San Francisco – an earthquake and a fire. We have written about them elsewhere. Neither we nor anyone in the whole world can explain this terrible event.

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