UNPLEASANT RECEPTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 12, 15 January 1912, Page 7

UNPLEASANT RECEPTION.

AFTER A YEAR'S ABSENCE.

THE UNFORTUNATE MAORI

TROUPE.

i AUCKLAND, Jan. 13. The. Star s Rotorua correspondeli^ states tliat them was no party of aiatives to welcome the Maori troupa •of entertainei's when the express ar-a-ived last evening. -The^ natives proceeded to Waka by special train, but <m their arrival a hostile, demonstration followed, which proceeded from lieated words to blows. _, In trying to protect MaggiexPapakura from a blow, one of tlie pai-ty liad hio arm broken in three places, while old Weta Taupopoki had -us lieadi cut open with a stick. _' A general rne^lee' followed, btit bn further serious casualties are reported. The feeling of hostility among the natives of Rotorua agaanst the leaders, who represented the band journeying to England, has been .steadily growing, and culminated L-.s*, evening m the fracas, which was a idistmofely unpleasant form of reception after a year's absence. j