A MAORI CANDIDATE. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, June 26.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 547, 27 June 1879, Page 3

A MAORI CANDIDATE. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) Auckland, June 26.

Wi Mabi Te Ranjrituke, an Arawa chief, at a meeting in Cambridge Hall, in connection with his candidature for the Eastern Maori electoral dist'ict, gave an outrageous exposition of bis views respecting ball-castes, whom ho pronounced bastards, and charged them with mischievous interference in connection with land selling. He would bring the subject of half-castes before Parliament. Marsh shocked tbe feeliDgs of Europeans present by alluding to the founder of Christianity as being of a similar origio,and said it did not matter now as he had gone to Heaven. Several Europeans were disgusted and felt the Hall at once. Marsh said he saw nothing in the Scriptures to warrant the condemnation of illegitimate children, but as a European law condemned it, such Europeans who made half-castos and understood tbe law relating to marriages, ought to know better. They should not take a Maori woman as they did and trample upon tbe law of marriage, in his land purchase ideas Marsh condemned both Government and private speculators, who were creating so much confusion. Private purchasers, he said, tried to undermine the Government,'and the Government tried to get land too cheap. The Government should fix one uniform price. Marsh said he would give the remainder of bis thoughts before -Parliament, and the meeting closed with a decided antipathy to the