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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 2760, 30 June 1894, Page 2

OKAIAWA.

(PBOM OtTE OWN OOEBBSPONDBKI.t-^'.; The social" announced at the halloa through your H columns eventuated^, on Tuesday, the. 19th inst. A oonßidedible number of ladies and gentlemen attended ana spent a most enjoyable evening.' Tb»; form of the entertainment was danoirigL; interspersed with songs ,and nrasioff selections, contributed by Meeiraßetts (4), Cameron (2), Alford, and Dodd< breaking up at 2 a.m. , „ ., On Saturday evening last the natives hired the hall for dancing, and invited their' pakeha neighbors 'to, participate in tuefuaor be speotators. A considerable number availed t themselves, and were struck with tbe perfeot time kept by the Maoris. The war-dance formed one item, and later tbe haka was danced. An' entrance fee of Is was charged, which included refreshments. Who Would have thought that m so short a time we should listen and look at these aforetime executors oi war and murder at midnight unalarm'ed.