MAORI SYMPATHISERS.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 17 January 1881, Page 3

MAORI SYMPATHISERS.

TO THE EDITOR O* THJS EVENING POST. • Sißr-In your issue of the 10th inst. I observe ft letter signed "E. J. Duncan," in whiph the writer appears before the pnblia tte a protector of the noble savago. Sir, I cannot help feeling' highly amused at Mr. Duncan coming forward in such a oharaoter. Who in the name of heaven' shall we have' next espousing the cause of the poor Maori P We have had missionaries, ministers of religion of all denominations, native agents, paklhaMaoris, native interpreters, publicans, and shoemakers, all vastly interested in their, fate | and now, as a last event, we have auctioneers and tailors trying their hands at botohing the Maoris. ¦ • '>'¦', I am told Mr. Duncan does not under- 1 stand a word of the Maori language beyond " tenakoe " and "kapai iakoe." Then bow can he know what w»s said? Away with ouch nonsense! -I advise Mr* Duncan 1 to mind his own business, and not interfere with matters of which he knows nothing,', and in his heart of hearts cares less. Mr* Duncan, for goodness' Bake be not a busybody in other men's matters ! ' ' < As to tailors, poor fellows, they know no ' batter. Tho one has recently turhed author had better mind his own goose. • I am, Ac, •¦ i. . ~ , Kotoku Eebsnga Tahi. Masterton, 14th January.