The New-Zealander. PUBLISHED DAILY. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1563. MAORI ENTERPRIZE.

New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1890, 9 June 1863, Page 2

The New-Zealander. PUBLISHED DAILY.

AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1563. MAORI ENTERPRIZE.

Bejustandfearnot; Let all the ends thou aim'at at, t>e thy Country s Thy God's, and Truth's.

In the present darkness which hangs over the Native people of this island, it is satisfactory to note every gleam of light; to be able to show, on the one hand, to those who hold the "d —d nigger creed" in respect to the Natives, that there are Maories whose intelligence and spirit of enterprize is large and worthy of all honor, and on the the other to hold up to the Natives themselves an example of the good that may be effected by the exercise of the arts of peace as compared with the miseries which have resulted to them and must continue to flow from a blind persistence in the course which a large section of the Native people have of late obstinately pursued. Not long since we republished from the Maori Messenger a short paper in which it was stated that our old friend and acquaintance Paoro Tuaherk, better known as Paul of Orakei, had purchased a fine new schooner called the Victoria, for the sum of £1,400, for the purpose of opening up a trade with the South Sea Islands; that he had himself and some twenty of his people set out for Rarotonga, and that the Victoria had returned to Auckland, leaving Paul and his retinue behind, with a cargo of oranges, lime-juice, coffee, bananas, and other tropical productions. The enterprize, it was shown, was profitable, the; net returns of the cargo having been about £330. Paul, it appears, has been made an Arihi at Rarotonga, has had land allotted to him, and has command of some hundreds of men. He was already rich in land and money and goods before he removed from Auckland, and inasmuch as he employed his means and his talents peacefully and usefully for himself and others he had secured the respect and kindly regard of the Europeans, and he may be held up to the Natives as being an example, but happily not the solitary example, of what may be accomplished for their own race by applying the intelligence which God has given them to that civilisation and those arts of peace which it has been an object of the colonization of New Zealand to teach and establish amongst them. We have just received a request with which we very gladly comply, to print a letter recently received from Paul at Rarotonga; and we give it moreover the most prominent place. To the Editor of the New-Zealandeb. Siß,~May I ask the favour of your inserting the enclosed letter from Paora Tuhaere; it may be interesting to some of your readers. Please publish the original Maori. Yours, &c, Purero. Auckland, June Bth, 1863. Rarotonga, Aperira 13, 1863. E pa ma, e hoa ma, tena ra koutou; ka nui toku aroha atu ki a koutou kdtoa, kite hunga mate mete hunga ora. E hoa ma, epa ma, ka nui te pai o te korero o nga rangatira o te motu nei, e whakahoaana ki a au, ki a koutou kotahi ano tupuna. Ko ta ratou tohe kia noho ahau i Rarotonga hei rangatira mo ratou. Heoi, kahore ano au i whakaae noa ki ta ratou korero; eranjji kia tae atu maua ko Kainuku, hei reira tatou matau ai ki nga korero. He whenua pai tenei whenua; he iti te mahi o tenei whenua: kua haere au i nga wahi katoa, kua kite au i te pai, kua mahi au i te whenua. He mahi pai to te whenua nei mo te paani, he iti noa iho. Heoi tenei. Tenei ano tetahi, Kua rongo au ki nga nupepa o Akarana, i tae mai ki konei, kei te whawhai Niu Tireni kite Pakeha. Heoi ano. Na Paora Tuhaere. [translation.] Fathers and Friends, —Salutations to all of you. My love for you all is very great—for those who are ill and those who are well. Friends and Fathers,—The sentiments of the chiefs of this Island are most excellent. They are most friendly to me and to you all; and their ancestor and ours was one. They are urging me to remain at Rarotanga to he their chief, but I have not yet consented to their request. When Kaimuku (the King) and I come to Auckland then we shall be able to decide, after the matter is discussed. This a good country, thero is little work done here. I have travelled over the whole place, and have seen that it is good. I have cultivated the soil. It is a good place for the orphan, for the labour of the soil is light. Sufficient of this. I have heard from the newspapers which have come to this place from Auckland, that there is war in New Zealand—that the Pakeha were attacked. Yours, &c. (Signed) Paora Tuhaere. Earotonga, April 13th, 1863. Amongst the islands which have been mentioned in speculations as to the place from which New Zealand received the germs of its native population, Rorotonga has been specified, and it is a fact worthy of being recorded that after the lapse of more than thirty generations a descendant of the first immigrants should find his way to the cradle of his race, and hear a language perfectly intelligible and " almost similar" to his own, spoken by men with whom for hundreds of years the Maori could have had no means of communication.