"NO MORE BEER."

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 45, 22 February 1910, Page 5

"NO MORE BEER."

... —.;- '■' -- — , -i-.s-vir,, ' ''■■■. V,;'■-.'■ DEl_sI_ES-ESS - AMONG MAORIS- ■:■ - ',-;.-.;■.• '. '- ■ •..'"- • • • '•iV.;.-;.?'^-'' SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ,' , 7.. ...EJNGITES... _...'-.Ct-'Tt^""' (By Telegraph.— Correspondent.);.' ~ .CAMBRIDGE, (this day.7 r A Maungatautari native . was -. charged in the Magistrate's Court here this morn- •'•'.'. ing with riding a horse to death last month at Maungatautari; with leaving at! on the road, and with being drunk. 7 7 ,:; Counsel pleaded saying that' the ': Maori -had. been to the races, and got so " drunk -that'Jhe:' did not , know What > he", was: doing.. ,->... ' :..•.-. .■,...:.'. , -:'.■ ,"r ■*>: A , constable said - there ? were no - races, that the Maori got drunk in Cambridge, ' and that the drinking was all due to the Maori King's ■• followers visiting Maunga•tautari and teaching ■. the inhabitants to . drink. They were formerly •an industrious people, -.whom merchants would trust 7 with hundreds of pounds. %' All .this' had been changed,by, the King element. \ 7 Accused-; was n fined £2 and j; £477/ i costs, and was prohibited in.- Waikato and,.Tauranga.--r.-.. .. «.-.■' ; . '-, .-.-. ,>......... ..%>■...■ v From • enquiries made, among settlers, '". •' I, find s the constable's version.. be correct. ...', Kingite natives .-have quite de-. ■moralised the inhabitants. :,. When payday at the factory comes round the King element is about, rand cheques: are-gener- ■. ally reduced considerably. • ~'■ •• ,<'?•■ .:?';,4. I Two other Maoris were also prohibited, and, with evident t glee, , exclaimed, "No more beer now." t. t -,-.,-,.., -, ; /