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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 602, 2 September 1909, Page 4

"OnlUie somo savage races,, who can only, count to five, the Maori had an elaborate system of numeration, which enabled him ;*<) express numbers up to a million ("mano tuarea", that is, a thousand thousand).; H« was not oven limited to ono code of numerals, but tho cardinals and ordinals, of English were surpassed by a iysten much'more amplified: In a paper, which ho published on Maori Sir. Elsdon Best, i valued authority. upon Nativ» : folk-loro am! customs, put forth some theories' on .tin subject, which led Hare- Hongi; in a papa rend before the Philosophical Society losj evening, to euggest in the most respectful , way that Mr. Best is on surer ground-whet ho'does not theoriso, but simply records mat tcr3 of Native lore os they aro repeated tv him. The Maori syite.ra of numeration, ai generally known, si»v] Haro.Hongi, is at one so methodical in its arrangement, so.well defined in its parts, and so cpinprchoneivo \\ its form that apparently no sufficient grouni. for its disputation has presented itself, Tin system was perfected by means of tin ancillary prefix. The Maori ; found', fiv vowels in his language, a, c, i, o. and •>[ and those letters lie appears to havo : di liboratoly employed as nids in tho convoyin, of different senses of numeration vrliio diderciit situntions created. Euro Hongi , , paper was illustrated by. numerous, sets ;', Maori numerals, which showed tho compn honsivencss of tho system. , ; . . ■•■ NODINE AND CO. ' ' . For Refinement in LoJien' Tailoring, Kβ, Goode to hand. Coats and Skirts from £5 Sa i Slrirts from 30s; 76 Wcllinglon Tenace.— Adrt