REVOLTING CANNIBALISM BY HUHAUS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 177, 30 July 1869, Page 3

REVOLTING CANNIBALISM BY HUHAUS.

The Daily Southern Cross, 23rd' July, contains the following intelligence :— ■ A report has come to hand, by way of Tauranga, which, in its nature, pci Ihaps, surpasses all that we* have ever heard of the horrors of Hauhauism. That the fanatics had relapsed into the worst practices of cannibalism we hare heard again and again f such details of brutish cruelty abd inhumanity as have been given have aroused feeling of the deepest abhorrence ; but the latest instance surpasses all. It would appear that the friendly chief Marsh Brown, with some of his scouts, had penetrated some distance into the Uriwera country, when, near the spot where Captains Travers and White were buried at Rautanaha, the scouts came upon a board stuck up in a conspicious part of the path. Upon near inspection it was found thnt it bore writing in Maori, which lias been translated as follows : — "Friends, ye nave been to Ruatahana, and have disinterred the bodies of the Europeans •who were buried there. " I have eaten them. The pakehas are very fat. "Tamai Ko-whiti." Up to the present there has been no means of ascsrtainingc whether .or not the natives have really been guilty of such revolting cannibalism as the above would lead us to believe. MaDy of those who belong to the class known as "Maori doctors" inclinfi to the opinion that the setting up of this board was a mere piece of bounce, while others, on the other hand, believe that the report may be true enough — the natives have eaten the bodies of our dead as a mark of undying hatred. How , long shall we have to wait for the punishment of 4hese inhuman monsters, who slaughter •defenceless women and children, and like ghouls devour the bodies of our fallen countrymen ?

An Irishman, on arriving in America, took a fancy to the Yankee girls, and wrote to his wife — " Dear Norah — These melancholy lines are to inform you that I died yesterday, and hope you are enjoying the same blessing; I recommend you to marry Jemmy O'Rourke and take care of the chiMer. From your affectionate husband till death. " Compensations of Nature. — " The arrangements of nature are admirable," exclaimed a young lady during the last high winds. " The same wind that diearranges our dress blows dust into the eyes of the wicked young men who would lake advantage of our confusion." Truly a philosophical young lady that. A Young- gentleman who has just married an undersized beauty, says that she might have been taller and larger, but that she is of precious materials, aud nature could not afford it.