THE LOVES OF TAHITO-KURA-MARANGA AND TAO-PUTA-PUTA.
A LEGEND OF KAITI HILL. NO. 111. BY COLONEL PORTER, C.S.- \ Chapter f. THE MEETING. ■HE same old story of the power of love has been told in all languages, in all climes, among all races from tho beginning of the world. Truelove is ever surrounded by romance, and is the most undefinable of all human emotions, so mysterious in its promptings to unselfish devotion, when man. and woman are tho sincere objects inspired with pure love ordained by the Great Creator. That beautiful love story written of the “Kauanga’’ of Hme-Moa to her lover Tutane-Kai across Rotorua Lake is but- one written of the many unwritten • stories stored among the or il archives of the Maori people, of whi- h the following, now set down for the first time, is an example of mysterious love and sadness, ending in joy, as every true love story should. 'Four hundred years ‘ago, counted
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3711, 21 December 1912, Page 13
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158THE LOVES OF TAHITO-KURAMARANGA AND TAO-PUTA-PUTA. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3711, 21 December 1912, Page 13
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