HAU-HAUS IN WAIKOUAITI.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2054, 4 September 1868, Page 3

HAU-HAUS IN WAIKOUAITI.

To the Editor of the Otago Daily Times. Sir—Mr Hononi's letter in refutation -of mine, in the Times of the 29th inst., in reference to Hauhauism at Waikouaiti, is a garbled production, apparently for the purpose of allaying public apprehension. I regret to say, the statements made in my letters are too true. In the latter portion of Mr Hononi's letter, he states what is really true. He found the natives at some of their villages, like sheep without shepherds, open to ignorance and superstition. If he had - added, for the want of Christian guides these benighted aborigines have been left open to embrace doctrines drawn out of 1 the alembic of hell/ and promulgated for their destruction, he would have been near "the mark. There are features about Hauhauism that I did not touch on in my last letter, which MrHononi seems to know nothing of. One or more enlightened Maoris have been peremptorily -excluded from the Hauhau fraternity, because they are addicted to drunkenness ; others, again, who; belong to the order, have "already been fined in large sums of money for misbehaviour—the •fines going to the Prophet, of course, who lives at Elvenua, where he can see and hear everything that takes place at Waikouaiti.—l am, SSGiJ SEMFFAKEHAr East Hawksbury, 28th August, 1868.