A MESSAGE FROM THE NATIVE MINISTER.
The following telegram was sent by the Native Minister (Hon. J. Carroll) tto Mr. A. L. D. Fraser, M.H.R. : — "My friend. Our parent hae responded to the final call. He has gone, falling at the hands of the sole arbiter and vanquisher. Go, you the guide of the canoe of destiny; (Haere to Kaihautu
o to Waka), the anchorage ground of tribal welfare ; go by the paths trodden by history, worn by the illustrious dead. To us alone is the valley of sorrow Enough, friend. We bow to death. Yet 'in this death we find a weaving influence (tafcau a tuitui), an influence that binds and bids us to be strong. Differences and divergences of yore should pass away, and in their place tlhere should arise a monument to our dead, the lesion from which should be a new horizon — the horizon of great works to do. This work done, no more sacred shrine could! be erected to speak of him who sowed the ■seed."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 139, 13 June 1906, Page 7
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171A MESSAGE FROM THE NATIVE MINISTER. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 139, 13 June 1906, Page 7
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