TUATARA STORY

Evening Star, Issue 17964, 10 May 1922, Page 1

TUATARA STORY

JtiFKivi.Ni; vx ori'jnAL at:.?r. An ml ore.-i in;: l-unl n.rn (.lory is j-c 1r,.1 >- i tv Air Al. J. (Innnon m the coin,-,: ~- ;i • i,to the Auckliiml • tier:)III. - 'imiquirk-*, *’ in writ,- :-, “luu-' Ik- u u.,., thro (o time an to 11-. e evi-i., tarn upon tho mainland of New Zealand. J know of only mu- m- i.or-c. in- . being Oil (hr ft) a rc'(...|, ill III" j!;iv i'l' SO between Opotilci and the Mom it nr:-, i-,.,-Iho sixth or coventh time, pnrhiip* >■ t i<■ I-r (■ho dispulu-l tit!" of i 11,.. Till,;.,I ;i ! ■ Kngli-h, innr-d crlj 1 ,liwm Ure - ; Nature Lund l.'-ouri, Om- of Din roiirl; :c!j voc.u l ■ informed im- a Her Ir' )i,u! ere,- m. ; j Inti i-a.-r lliat- lie. had ouuUrd (u i ■": 11 r ward criLiin c\ idviicn regarding ;• n an.' t.rn I bnriiil •••r-..env, and iho »>••< <■ ttin 1,,-hco. evicenco might or muds hme ;m ni] crln.ul, boa rim' on the lm his case. As to lid (uaSara, (ho premiere;:.' involved. Win; thud,, noUvil.ii-rondili" ere, lan. that, according 1.0 Muon iroucalopic-u , n Wliamia-a-Apauni and Xgan.a) tribe.* i.i-u occupied territory along i!m cm?, si, Lrtwi oi Torero and Urn Ka I « 'gr since before Charles k» King oi bnslaii'i, uuk-' --U" i:id.vidunl, a immbr ,raw Whimiina-Apn-imi tribe, knew wF-i* 'I < or any other par* Ucnlar Imit.-uu had .re dwelling on Dm cond. Tim iiii'orim! burial ground ;-rs*ol) tad 10) difiicuily. Not .-1 Dio Ul.ll.i’t. If (ho lualara. failed 1.0 maUirlultec, Ihe court;, utter fM-rfernrin;; a Journey of looret thirty mite,', would find 1"- evidence oi 1U existence ? ilidimi of lie- hrnin. Tliis t ie# of the pocilion -.r,: 1 ;. placed priviilcly bet ore tiic Maori i.a.ud Com-1, adveeago, v.-iuv bad his wit.no - u'c i". (v ( d 'I Ik- i I,'; r.r ‘Tim tunfiira, is ail nglit. It Din buy U fme, and the (-.nil is shmiug on t.u- papa, rock, I. In < 1’ n Urn '.,i! < ,r - tcilh mi hi on view immediawdy (hr. vuukus rro wiilim Aft of (bn lizard’-,-; habitat.’ Thc/ic ccudi(ions pertaining to tho luatara tniu iw pcarum-'- m pub he worr laid coirt. 11l '■( '-pim ■■(■ 1(1 l !i!i apljlc- (po" ilcourt informed the part ins on a Friday afternoon Unit Oil Die ibltov.lliv <!: v Ire desired visit would be made. The muience to tho vtiaLara, in tho I'ourt's announcement created a, eciKation—to Kip -’-laori an indefiuablo i.umatiiiiig exist- Dint hill:-: iiu tho tualnra with I’ol.vncFian :iiii!(|n:’iv or tho romol««L tilin’. TTio court tot cu.t on tho at tho time appointed. .A largo number of Europeans as well ic- A'curie Liu) assembled. An exhilarating canter along the beach soon brought tho party, Ihrtygo:fifty horsemen, to itm destination. The hiv was all tho most fastidious tiictani. could desire for receiving visitors, but to jwme of iho parly it socuicd like calling spirits from (he vasty deep to expect (he teaUit. to appsiir. Kveryl-hing, 'however, lunn-.i out. as iudiealed. When the guide pot ivlihin n yard or so ot a, V-rhriTHid crumbling pai)a rock forma thin, ba-ro of all vegc-taticr, U|.,> tnatarn. oxhibitifig what appeared to be 1.-? fhiin half of its total length, eamo upon i eeeno, and. long and leisurely gazed phiddiv at the crowd as it rolled up in twos air' threes. Not one of tho party bad r-:' ,v> to nay that ho did not cee a tuatnra. if looks ‘conveyed a moaning, and the ime.-.iui-c-ould he expressed in words', lies limtnra seemed ahsorbod in the reflect: or • ‘What came ye out to bob?’”