AT THE MAORI CAMP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11680, 15 June 1901, Page 5

AT THE MAORI CAMP.

.' .v animated ?-'CIiXE. '..'-'. visit:!,;; Ms . : -: 5 r..-o eii'.airpcd oil the uawnra •..■■■.".- i! P.otoraa and Wha'.«!.v\:». :«i..-fc of them .ire It-usrtl i" f'-iiis, but ,i 111!'.;; low of sub-BtiUjf.sl-1001-i.vi r.-.uno wha'-es give ae-ci>'(M:i!-('-itioa : , ,:.•:■.,; himdreia. " At d:,- : "re l ", paint" ,')'• vaiam-; i-ib:s hive set up !'.:t;;.-t.'fi's und l'\ cVsUiiejiahmt' which. in t -v; H : ■:.'-,.. h-.M" very queer designs. T'l9 \Ciolo. ;<. etto, with (!:■; IVUnrs .;.. : :t;; „Is-»ili ■'•-■ daily uv ,.,-.:•..,..,;•! or preparing"' for lo- ::«■-•- ii .-- cal'mrim; Is. most animated and full ;.f kltvresr. id tin- ;,. I. !,:,. Maori lite m all ages ;; represented. There is the reverend seigneur, i: i iz/.bd and taltoed, his thoughts as he stalks about the pa fixed on other times e hen the rare old mere hanging on bis wrist wax 1,-.!-..! for a, purpose mora exhilarating than brandishing in the air to amuse lbs pakeha ; I lie stalwart taniMta, who would in Mis old clays have boon a, doughty "tw." or thd.ttm; inn: the soft-eyed ihi-ky lmiid.hmany eh ■:,,.<. who would Lava provided half the neLd;b ; tribe* with a cause dc guerre; r]i» chattering boys and girls, .i'"! the tiny Lei] of infantile brown fifsrj with a soft, down on its head endeavourin' to craw] from the reach of the bony i i.a-'s o; the old shi ivelled-up woman whose '■' dy it i.: to art this part of nurse. Toil iv was a, very busy lime at flit; ramp, pr-ir-th-ins for the ii.-d.a-, birbbLin" up tokotokos, taiahas. ;.-l t'swhatftwas, and looking in m.' condition or treasured mats. From various divert came tlia sound of I lie- beka., and, strobing in the direction of In? noi.s-, mm canifl on ;i, knot of man and v.'om»ii rehearsing a. ■••.- of the movements ot Ihe dance with sii;-o esnerb-rPTd rid hand looking on with critical rye, and vrdding iii-i approval or eiprassiihg | ; j ;! disappmv.il in nbrli tones and sarcastic iiMnn'.--.-a- tile oa.-o might be.