REVENGE AND DEFENCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 947, 14 October 1910, Page 4

REVENGE AND DEFENCE.

■ '-MB:■ Wl 1 i ;v:;;,-: ■: : '}, iy, - : v r tions:;t : .v;-t ;-;\ ■;.-;;,: ■:/''i«^MTerige;'Md;:.Jn'^ret^atiq^'t i w»n':' speak ; ■unti^tlie;Colu^oiV;■aajbtos;^'Sllch:: , ; ;wasihe: ; direful: : tlireat;:liurl«d at.members;'. of ;the' ■■•i^giaiatiTe;:.Counoa';-yfflt?rday;. by,V the had made' an /effort"to catch the jSpeaWa. ,'■ eye some minutes 'before, :but .had -had .to ;, give' W ay^to^tie v 'Hon;,J;'?. J CaUan;.who/:; did get on .his: feet eventually, he. made the :.: above" remark, ; : his, chagrin, .being caused ;,/ through; the fact that tte'delay had made'" him roiss'ii motor-car:'and.a train which ■;/ would ba?J! ; ;.i; tive.'-.' Thf' Speaker.-remarked.:, that (the ■: hon. ; gentleman must ■• not:, speak- in ..that-; way '■•' as 'though he ::was threatening the--, "Council.'■■•-He (the Speaker), could;not lis-, : tento it. ? [iThe■ hohAgentlemanJacceptedr the rebuked meekly,./andirephed,;v.fv>ry, | well, sir* I will. obey:" y:In: .the i course : of his speech Mr.; Wi Pere outlined/<v novel, - ■scheme, of- defence, which included:, the.,:;, training of. the Maori:., and,"boys.v from,,; twelve to. seventeen ■ years : of-age',; also : . the •;, training of' Maori women,; and old° men:as a:reserve'force. •\-At;the;\ same.time'-he was not.enchanted-with the; prospects of, the white- wohianas.-a- fight {.:■■ ing machine. ::-The ..white; woman ".■.would ■-/ say/ '.'Ok, dear.'/dear/V and; faint /when;;./ she-heard the enemy was coming, he said. "But what would; the Maori vwoman-dor. ; r She■ would spring"; up .and grasp: the .- near- =;. est:cudgel,,and get into :the fray. ;:.■-.'.";.