HAWKE’S BAY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 4460, 31 May 1875, Page 3

HAWKE’S BAY.

An abstract of the receipts and expenditure, of the Province for the quarter ending March 31 was published in Friday’s Hazels Bay Gazette. The receipts fipm the sale of Crown lands amounted. to £9,469 19s IQdt the total: revenue for the quarter, hot inoluding balanees : in hand, being £14,637:0* 4d, There was' a, credit balance at on March 31 of £35,188 2s 9d. The bridge over the Manawatu at the j Gorge—one of the finest works of the kind j in the colony—is (says the Hawkis - Bay] Herald) now completed, and . ready to be : 'handed : over by : the contractor to the Go.vernment. On May 6horses,carts, and foot, passengers crossed - r over. • The mayi bC congratulated on the completion of.' this, fine piece of which now gives uninterrupted coach communication between Na- ; pier, Wanganui, and Wellington. All ner-j vous overland tourists will rejoice that thej cage in which they, used to be slung in mid-; air across the roaring torrent beneath, i at aj distracting height, is at'an end for ever. " '; > It may not be generally known to pur, readers, says the ■ Daily Telegraphy that .xaj monthly paper, in the Norse language, isj regularly prated an 4 published in Napier, by Mr B. 0. Harding. Its title is Brevduen, or| “ The Carrier Dove,” and it is headed'wej neat and appropriate engraved tibia;...Tje, paper is a religious one, of the e vangelical type, and is greatly appreciated by those, Scandinavians who’are out of the.reaoh ofany religious service." The {taper is at preseniintirely edited and conducted by, the Bey E. Neilson, a missionary who left. Norway ' time ago to minister to, Ae spirithalto quiremento of hie Countrymen, among whom he has been very smcessfnl. ' The paper contains a gOpd deal (fleadinf mpttef and as it is not at all simportcd by ad' vertisements, a good ’arj required to man it a cprnmerpiftl suopeii It is now.intended to add to Its usefulness by extending its plan, and incorporating with, it a summary> of current news; fo? which purpose the services of a. Norwegian settler, of Some Uteraryqitperiepqe.haye been secured. Tfairie the only paper of its kwd mJhe' Awstwlaw we^ worthy of, fapport. Jetwwi WcSh; Steadi* navian servants would.4o ; ,wcU, tobrihg if under their notice- The Norse language, we may add.thoUghdifferingin some from Danun. and.Swediih. can he read With facility by dwellers Jt aK three countries; Specimen oopies.will be forwarded bypost gratis on ftpjpUtetion.to Mr: Harding,, the .printer ap^pphlfsherof thepaper. I Puring -the’last weeh or two, says the Hawke's Bay Heruld of May 14, luge numj-t hers of Natives hate been in town., This hap been owing to . various deputations. having been despatched to Napier from the different inland and ooact tribes, to wait upon the Hon Sir Donald M'Lean. NatiTe Minister; The object of each deputation having aidvancep sufficiently towards completion to allow, a short respite from work, the whole party, numbering over a bundled, proceeded by tram yesterday to Haatings. Few, indeed, of this Natives present had experienced before thjs sensation of travelling by, rail On arriving at Hastings, itx, was ascertained that an ample luncheon, provided by Sir Donald M'Lean, was in readiness to gratify this appetites, made keen' by the freshening air. The day, notwithstanding the threatening aspect of the weather, turned out to be fine. Besides the many noted chiefs on the occasion, we observed, Amongst this Europeans, 8. Locke,,Esq., 8.M., E.H. Bold, Esq., 0.8., Major Bushardsoti, Captamßouf ledge, Messrs Hamlin and? Mitchell, (Land Purchase Commissioners), WillinniiGannon, and others. "When all had partaken of the good things provided, Ihaka Whangs, a chief of TeMahia,Wairoa, arose and said thathje would beg to proporo the health of Her Majesty the Queen, add spoke a Jew' .appropriate words exmashml-'.' loyalty of - himself and his peoples 'Paoyja Apatu, a. chief ' of the , Wairoh, said that he would wish to unite with the toast proposed the name of one whio had lifted up the ntantle of doubt and hesitancy which had Sd long enshrouded the native race of this island. He hadbatiittle .to speak about. There were gathered therp r that, day .people, from the. base : of < Tqngftrup ,tp the part of this island first seen, by; OsHftih Cook, bat there was.not one present who wap! not fully conscious of the grant andbenefiicisqt' changes taken, place since theirfatoem dwell]. In the beginning, their fathers, failed.to comprehend .the Pakeba. They thought they were but “spirit* from the vasty deep.” .They had : been convinced that the Europeans could be their preceptors; andtb their knowledge the greatest representative of that ; pedple,w|i|.l(e Wppse henlSi he the Queen herself had the other day laliited (knighted) -i- Sir Donald M'Leap. 1 The tobat w§s drunk with, deafening. ‘cheers. ln.nammse to the {ongoing toasts £L Locke, Esq., E.M., rose to respond. He expressed acknowledgement for the manifestations 1 of loyalty so corcually eviaoed on . all aides, for there were assembled there the representatives and people of many tribes. He reverted (jo the toriris in which the pnsiQoa speakers had exprMted themselves with regard to the administration of Native affairs in this.iiland. These were matters that, appertained, mpre particularly, to .themselvM.> And , as fthey observed, there were no people more < than themselves of jndgmg of the.effecti juf • tained by them through the administration, of Native affairs. They were allfully pogniint qf the state in which, but a few years naok, tbe North Island had beoome enveloped. So thoroughly dissevered had the people of the North Isumd become, that to oommunioate . with the interior was arduous and fraught with no small danger, and suoh a purpose could : then be <mly carried out by the ; primitive means. And now they possess .a mode of communication oomparftble with thftt of the* most civilised and advanced parto of the world. You, he jwid, have all participated inj and are familiar with, the benefits that accrue to you, and are derivable from,hayiqg ' your land opened up by meaqa of roads,.telfgraphs, &o. To-day - you have szporienood what it is to travel by. means of one of tlje moat Important bf modern inventions .of tbs Pakeba. The railway has, in othar obuntrie)i, been the mroiu df down the wt^n-' ing«o greatly to thsur mutaal prosparityand tstoraoscof likewise rwsip similar rasnßs from siieh phbl|o

-tioos-fromMr Locke, he set .down, .haring, .keen listened to . with,, parked attention throughout. Kihii-d*)’a' Chief of the .Arawa ! trihi, wulQiit dis people had sdfiyrpd steady : fuatiy 'to' tpe Government; that they were Idyal, and to this he attributed the prosperity ■ and ehlfghtenmebt of his people, for they bad. j seen the light ere other tribe* saw the glimmer. ; But now education, wae.being diffused ampngst them t and it was by Sir Doriald M'Leari that the over-shrouding mantlS-of ignorance was I being removedfrom- the shoulders of .the native | race. He said he represented a large section I of the Arawa people, who had deputed him to come there, where he would behold people of many tribes. Truly, the mode of transit that. had brought, them there was. great, The Fakehit' we a wonderful; people: They (the Maoris) were :learnint £fom the Fakeba ; they were squiring wealth as they did, for the land of the native*" no longer lay* like a beached canoe without paddles, for the Government., have.sent to. us, people who. assist us. gr«st|iy in utilising the, lapde that; otherwise would only be known to us, by the name* of the £ boundaries being transmittedfrom Hohepa Tamamitu, Sawin itohia, J arid si few other* briefly addressed the. assemblage. It wa* A matter ,*)! general remark that.the tenb'r of thC speeches throughout; although nude by people dwelling remotely apart,, tended .in orie, direction, namely, to that which pertained to their own adTaaoement,iutrilectufJly,and'sbcUilly.' The time haiW’ arrived for returning, home, the talking, epfled, the natives heartily cheering their European friends.