OTHER TRIBUTES.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11668, 2 July 1906, Page 3 (Supplement)

OTHER TRIBUTES.

MESSAGE FROM WAIRARAPA MAORIS. The following message was sent to Captain Seddoa:— "0 sir, a sympathetic greeting to you and your sisters and your mother, who is in great grief for her espoused husband, who has now been separated from you, that is, from us all. O sir, O ladies, great is the sorrow and the soreness of the heart for this sudden calamity that has this day so unexpectedly befallen us. Great is the affection for our parent, that is the parent of the people of New Zealand and of other isles, well then all thoughts are now centred on our parent who has passed away from us. O then, O sir, go the 'mana (authority), go the outspoken word, go goodness, personified, O goodness who upheld the words of your Father in Heaven, go to the place where aU great powers and all majesty are, where goodness is, where love for the small, the poor and the feeble abideth. Go the director of the canoe, go into the presence of the Lord/Jesus Christ and His Father Jehovah. He it was who strengthened your loving heart, enabling you to work out and bring into effect beneficial measures for the well-being of the humble. Go into the presence of your Gracious Sovereign, Queen Victoria and your Rangitiri friends who have gone before you— Sir George Grey, Mr Balance, Henare Tomoana, Taiaroa, and Mahupuku, it will bo for you to tell them how well, how successfully and energetically those measures that they had under consideration have been carried out. By such measures and works undertaken the people now live in quiet and comfort ha the face of the earth and in peace. Go, O sir, to the resting place for the body and the spirit. A word of lamentation— Tararua's range is obscured with a clinging cloud, and Wellington is hidden in mist, for the parent has vanished from the arena of the House of Knowledge. Ended are the greetings to you. O lady (Mrs R. J.Seddon) may it be well with you and your children, notwithstanding your great grief. May God comfort you with every ble ss ,o ß .-From |ioEi and the remnapt of the people ot the Wairarapa, within the Rongokako boundaries."