SOLOMON'S PROVERB.
Ik the course of the sitting of the Land Court aft Otaki, on»Wedneiday laat, the followiog amusing episode occurred t — Mr. Fox, addressing the witness (Ratana) : Did you ever hear that Parakaia, one of the claimant* in this oaae, was in the habit of going about claiming other people* land ? . The Court objected to the question in that ■h*P* Mr. Pox j Did you ever hear any proverb abort Parakaia, common among the natives on this coast? Batana: Ye: Mr. Fox: What was it? Ratana : It «i this : If a louw falii from Pantkaia'a head, he claims the land it falls on; and where he spits, that he also claims. (Great laughter.) By the Court : I heard this proverb a long tune ago— it is known to all the Maoris. I did not hear ie first from a white man. I think I heard it firht from Hunia. Mr. Fox, addressing the Court: If the Court wishes to know the origin of the proverb, I believa we shall be ablo to show it. We have a witness to call who ought to be a good authority ; his name i« Solomon, and we shall put him in the box by and-by.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3367, 1 May 1868, Page 3
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202SOLOMON'S PROVERB. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3367, 1 May 1868, Page 3
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