CONTINUATION OF JOURNAL OF EVENTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 410, 9 June 1860, Page 3

CONTINUATION OF JOURNAL OF EVENTS.

Saturday, June 2. — Weather wet and cold, little wind. The Cordelia put to sea last night, and is not in sight. She might have been communicated with to-day. Sunday. — Weather wet and wretched without news or excitement of any kind. The Cordelia not seen. Monday. — A melancholy and fatal accident happened this morning to a son of Mr Wakefield, who, whilst fording the Huatoki stream near the beach on horseback, lost his seat and tvas washed out to sea and drowned. Capt. Miller, of the 12th, who happened to witness the accident, gallantly plunged into the sea to save the boy, which noble act nearly cost him his life. Capt. Miller got amongst the breakers and was cuuied into the mouth of the river where he had to struggle against the swollen waters of the Huatoki as they discharged themselves into the sea. Being a poweiful swimmer, after repeated attempts, and after being exhausted by the heavy surf that repeatedly broke over him, he succeeded in getting across the stream, and the surf assisted in washing him up towards the beach, when he was rescued and carried into the Kawau pa in apparently a dying state. Mr Hohy, junior, with great courage went into the" sea on horseback, and by his beckoning announced to the people on shore that Capt. Miller was in peril. G. Iloby's horse carried him without shrinking into the surf and swam about in the breakers in his rider's efforts to get close to Captain Miller. Nothing s>een of the body of the unfortunate boy. Vigorous means were at once used to restore animation, and during the evening Captain Miller was sufficiently recovered to be removed to his quarters on a litter. A large number of people were on the beach during 1 the time the captain was in the breakers, who had not the slightest conception he was struggling for his life, but, on the contrary, thought he ■was swimming about still seeking for the body of the boy. Tuesday. — Weather very inclement. Towards evening the wind went round to the S.W. George Stockman arrived from Waitara this evening with despatches and reports all quiet at the camp. As there has been no communication with Waitara since the arrival of the Tasmanian Moid on Tuesday, the 29th ult., some anxiety was felt for news, especially of Mr 11. Brown, who is progressing though not out of danger. The messenger came up in company with a native, one riding along the beach and the other over the sand hills to guard against surprise. No natives were seen. The present wet and cold weather keep them, no doubt, in their pas. Nothing fiom the South, if we except a rumour that natives were seen on Monday crossing the Tataraimaka block apparently en their way towards the bush, in this direction. No appearance of the Tasmanian Maid or Cordelia. J Wednesday. — This morning the Cordelia was in sight and anchored at 11 a.m. Weather fine and calm. The second draft of blue jackets from the Pelorus, 68, and three officers, were landed at 2 p.m., and marched up to the encampment of the naval brigade on Mr Humphries' land, with the

65th band playing at their head. The brigs Shamrock and Emma anchored this evening, the latter from Nelson. Thursday. — The body of Mr Wakeflold's son, for which continuous search had been made, was found to-day amongst the rocks on the Henui beach not far from where the accident occurred with little or no trace of the rough usage it must have received. The Emma reports the Tasmanian Maid at Nelson on the 30th, to leave for this on the following day. The steamer was driven down by stress of weather, and the weather at sea was described as very boisterous and variable. We have Nelson papers to the 26th. The overland mail from Auckland arrived at 12 to-day. A fire was seen by the piquets last night in the direction of the Bell Block. It proved, to-day, to be the burning of a house in Ilami Poke's pa at the Ilua. Friday. — We have received information this morning from a settler at the Be 1 Blockhouse that finding that all communication with the Waitara and the town had been cut off by King's armed natives, and no intelligence I'egaiding Mr Brown had been received for eight days, he with another started for Waitara about 11 a.m. on Tuesday last. On reaching the Waiongana they found such a heavy fiesh in the river they could not cross, and went up the river about half-a-mile to find a ford, and found fresh tracks of a large body of natives, and thought it best to return. On Tuesday evening a body of armed natives supposed to number 50 or 60, slept at the Hawe Taone, and in a house near the Devon line. On Wednesday morning they were seen from the Bell Blockhouse thrown out in skirmishing order to protect a party of marauders who had been told off. These plundereis, numbering 11, weie seen issuing from Sampson's house, near the beach, and also in the vicinity of A. Hoskin's Hollis's, and J. and R. Street's premises. From the strict orders issued not to invite a collision, the settlers were, compelled to see their properties destroyed before their eyes. On Thursday, dogs supposed to belong to this patty, having attacked a flock of sheep on the block, killing 8 or 10, an armed body of settleis went out for the purpose of destroying them, but not finding the dogs extended their search and found that eight houses on the block had been broken open and gutted. Amongst the grestest suffeiers are C. Sampson, A. Hoskin, and J. Hhst, whose houses a:e completely ransacked — the natives wantonly tearing down the ceilings, paititions, &c. The Victorian Government steam sloop Victoria, arrived this morning from Manukau. We have Auckland papeis to the 6th instant. 4 p.m. — News arrived from the Ilua pa that Tana had returned in the night from W. King's, bringing the important information that the split stuff lying at Iluirangi would be used for the erection of a pa on Teira's land either to-day or tomorrow. It is rumoured that the Ngatiruanuis have arrived at Wi Kingi's pa. Archdeacon Govett came up from the camp last evening, and we are sony to say leports unfavourably of Mr Brown. The Cordelia sailed to-day for Manukau. The Tasmanian Maid arrived at 1 o'clock from Nelson, and proceeded to Waitara \iith a cargo boat, and will return this evening, when we shall ndd any intelligence she may bring, especially regarding Mr Brown. 10 p.m. — Weather settled lain. No probability of the steamer returning with wind in piesent quarter.

In our journal of events last week we weieled to notice a letter in the Southern Class of the 25th ult. signed " Citizen," and containing a maou document signed by certain chief!, of the Thames and one of Rotoiua, with a tianslation. Both the lettei and the maoii document ate calculated to mislead, and we wish to supply some coirective facts fiom Maori histoiy geneially, and that of this distiiet in paiticular. Before doing so we have a woid to say on the authorship of the lettei. Poisonal matteis do not generally find their way into our columns, but wo aie in times when it is necessaiy that the animus of all publications leieiiing to the native lace should be plainly known. The peison who wiiles undei the signature " Citizen " has some notouety in Auckland as ha\ing been some few yeais back discharged fiom the Native office, and as having since, peihaps before, been closely associated with the " King movement," and done the duly of Secretary of State to his Majesty King Potatau. This person after the custom of the well educated writeis in the Ciosi, exeicises his wit in devising nicknames and pitches on Commissionei Pairis as a jiiopei subject. / It is not out of consideiation to " Citizen " that we decline to enter the lists with him in this soit of contest, but out of lespect to om loaders, ourselves, and the veiy meritoiious and efficient officer at whom in uttei ignoiance " Citizen " tlnusts his coaise ludeness. As to the chiefs who ate pioduced as .uithoiities on the Taianaki land question ; Taiaia Ngakuti is Hell known as the most able repiesentative of the old Maoii school, — the hist man in New

Zealand to feast on human flesh, whose maori education makes him uphold by any means the despotic sway of a chief. He is not a veiy gieat man in the Thames; ho is descended fiom the Ngatiawa of Taranaki, and if he can only get the Government to admit a flaw in Taylor's claim he will come in for a second payment. Maihi Rangikaheke is a Rotorua chief, a man of superior mind, but a sort of Maoii Dan O'Conncll, who, to see his name in print, would make a speech to please any audience ; and who, to gain the f.nor of any party, would compete with Sir Walter Scott in novel writing. Such a man, although well infoimcd in Maori history and genealogy, is not a pioper person to be led by. Wiremu Hoete Te Wacro is one of those who have an eternal itching to write, and, since he has gained the ait, is for ever making jottings on the road. Maori history, theietore, at his hands must be taken cum grano. As Hoete has nothing to lose or gain in Taylor or William King, he can, with the other, safely say " that now, for the first time, ho has hoaid of Taylor." We conclude, therefore, the document signed by these thiee chiefs and tno others was written at the request of " Citizen " by Hoete and signed by the others to please " Citizen " — and, as internal evidence proves, written at AueUtmd. " Citizen " eulogises a quotation which he makes from a book wiitten by Dr. Thomson. We would not speak of the Doctor with disrespect, but was he a native scholar, or even a maoii speaker ? — no, neither: and, therefore, he must have got his knowledge of Maoii second-hand, and, we do not hesitate to say it, fiom " Citizen." It gives value to the praise of " Citizen " to know that it is bestowed on his own information under the name of the Doctor. The quotation is as follows :—: — " Amongst the families of each tribe there are also laws legarding landed pioperty: thus, the cultivation of a poition of forest land renders it the pi opeity of those who claim it, and this right desconded from geneiation to generation. But this individual claim did not give the individual the right to dispose of it to the Europeans." We admit the law as far as claim to land first cleared from generation to generation, but why mention Europeans in the last clause when in foimer times theie weie no Europeans to whom they could dispose of it. We « ill go into Maori Histoiy to piove that land was disposed of by members of a tiibe without the slightest reference to the chief, and we will do so out of the history of Taraia, Hoete, and Rangikaheke. On a visit of the ancestor of Taraia to the Thames the Huia feather fell from his head and dropped on the gionnd ; he at once made a fence of small sticks around it : there were three of the Thames people with him, hut not the chief. From this act Taiaia's ancestor claimed the land as his own, and Taraia claims it to this day. Then Hoete claims the island of Waiheke. How did he get it? Did the chief of the Ngatimaru tiibe give it to him and his tribe, was it not taken from them for a curse ? Was the consent of the Ngatimaru chief gained— did not the Ngatimaru chief retiie from the island and go into the Thames 1 To this day part of the common men of the Ngatimaiu claim a poition of the island while the chief does not. As to Rangikaheke, the Taupo chiefs claimed the Horohoio mountains, and his ancestor went to see some of the tribe catching the tui, and on the receipt ot a piesent of biids fiom the Taupo men ho gave them his mat ; they, to piove him a chief, a»ked for all his garments and his mere pounamu which he gave. The men of Taupo (there were no chiefs piesent) then made him a present of the mountain in acknowledgment of his generosity in giving all he had with him. Does not the branch tiibe of Te Arawa claim the mountain from this circumstance to this day 1 Are these proofs that the chiefs alone alienate land 1 We will not enumeiate any purchases of land made by Government, but confine om selves to the purchases/made by " Citizen." Apihai Kawau is the head chief of the branch of the Ngatiwhatua tiibe at Auckland. Under the penny-an-acre proclamation " Citizen " may remember that he purchased a piece of land up the Waitemata river for a peison named Chisholm, fiom Huaraki as minor chief of the Ngatiwhatua, and that the consent of Te Kawau was not asked nor did he sign the deed to Chisholm. Again, "Citizen" bought another piece of land for Brigham up the same river from Tautaii, who is a minor chief of the same tribe, when the consent of Te Kawau was not asked, nor was his name signed to the deed. Again, " Citizen " bought a block of land up the same river for Hendeison and McFarlane from Tuhaere and Keene, when the consent of Te Kawau was not asked or his name to the deed. Again, " Citizen " bought a piece of land foi Fulton up the Waitemata, fiom Maniheia, a returned slave fiom Ngapuhi, a minor chiei of the Ngatiwhatua at Kaipara— Nopera being the head chief of this portion ot the Ngatiwhatua, yet Nopeia's name is not to the deed. Again, is not Te Kauae, chief of the Ngatitamaoho, and was not Epiha Putini a chief who was biought up fiom a child by Te Kauae— yet "Citizen" bought a piece of land foi Newman at Raiotongafiom Epiha, and the consent of Kauae was not asked nor was his name signed to the deed. We could multiply in stances to fill a book, hut these will suffice, and when these claims were hi ought before the Commissionei of Land Claims not one of them or a boundary was deputed, notwithstanding " Citizen " in some instances gave new names to boundaries of the blocks he pmchased for private individuals — if facts are pioofs then the above examples shew that a minor chief can sell his land to any oue he likes without the senior chief's consent. Then, as to the chieftainship. The chiefs who sign then names to the Maori document used by "Citizen" say: — "Since the auiv.il of the Law now foi the fiist time it is heaid that Te Teira is the Chief of Ngatiawa and of Waitaia; this name is now heaid lor the fiist time." These chiefs know that Te Teiia was a youth when he went to the South, so that, though a gieat chief by birth, his name would not bo mentioned. Now, let us see «ho is the chief of the two— Wi Kingi or Teiia, accoiding to Maoii law. " Citizen" will admit that the head chief of a tiibo is a priest by hereditaiy light, that is, he has descended fiom, and is the dnect line of the senior blanch of the family, who weie the heads in the lespcctive migrations fiom HawaiU to New Zealand. Also, " Citizen" knows that the history, and moie especially the mahulu and the incantations used in planting the kumai.i, fishing, catching lats, making a canoe, going to wai, aie sacred, and, most

I of all, the Popoarengarenga — i.e., the rehearsal of the names of the Gods anil the ancestors at the final burial of a chief, is not to be heard by any but the head chief and his son. Such is the fact ; and hence we can at once say who is a head chief and who is not. Now, we have conversed with Wi Kingi and Te Teiia ; the former does not know the Popoarengarenga, but Te Tcira does, and he can go back as far as Te Kahuipo, one of the chiefs under Maru in the great temple Wharekura, at Hawaiki, and their raliau whakapapa was called Tongitongi ; hence, also, the name of the Ngatiawa canoe from Maru, " Tokomaru." But if this is not proof enough we will give two more. " Citizen" may pciluus have heard of Taowhakairo, and his brother, and also the cause of quarrel between the two brothers, which eventually caused one of them to be expelled fiom Waikato to Cook's Strait. This portion of the tiibe is now the Ngatiraukawa. It was in the war of these brothers that the ancestor of Wi Kingi came from Waikato to Waitara, and took a wife from the youngest female branch of the family of Teiia, and lived with her at an old pa called Manukonhi, on the noith bank of Waitara. This old pa was abandoned in 1826, but, up to this time, Wi KiDgi's relatives lived there and were the last to leave j hence his hapu, or branch of the Ngatiawa are called to this day Manukorihi. Up to the year 1820 Wi Kingi's relatives had never cultivated on the South side. of Waitara but once, which was allowed lor the following reison. A number of the Ngatiawa went out of the Waitara in their, canoes sea-fishing ; a gale came on and swamped/all but one i this canoe, with the men, landed at the Sugar Loaves, and, according to Maori law, they staid for some time before they went home to weep over their lost associates. As the people in Manukorihi pa fully helievedall the fishing-party were dead they 'wept for their husbands, brothers, fathers, &c., but not so with Wi Kingi's relatives, — these at once passed over to the spot on which the pa Te Kuhikubi was built, and began to clear it when the men in the one canoe saved came back to Waitara ; and they were allowed to cultivate by Teira's ancestors the portion cleared and live on it for one season. This leads us on to another point in the history of King's claim to the land sold by Teira. As the poitiou above alluded to is in the portion sold, just before the Pukerangiora pa was besieged by the Waikatos, William King went to Kapiti and put himself under the protection of Rauparaha at Mana. This act, also, had a reason, as Rauparaha is descended fiom the Tainui migration, and as Wi Kingi was related to them he was safe ; hence, therefoie, on the intended attack on Pukcrangiora word was sent to Wi Kingi to leave ; he did so, and saved himself amongst his relations ; but, after the purchase of the Taranaki district, including the Waitara, Wi Kingi returned to Waitara, and again lived on the Noith bank, near Manukorihi. But as some of the Waikato, under Rewi and others, were still cultivating in the vicinity (but only for the crops then in the ground), this was given as an excuse by Wi Kingi for asking Teira and lhaia to be allowed to come over to the south side to the Kuhikuhi (those poitions formeily cultivated by his ancestors on the mishap with the canoes of the Ngatiawa), as he was afraid of the Waikatos attacking him. The request was granted — he and his people have lived there ever since. We leave this to speak for itself, if Wi Kingi is a claimant. But how is it Wi King! is known as a chief and Te Teira spoken of as he was by Hoete and the others 1 Because, as has been shown, Wi Kingi was with his relatives, but Teira and others, though with them, were yet very young, and, as such, the Waikato Chiefs would speak of their relative Wi Kingi as a chief, whilst Teira they would not mention on account of his youth. But, it may be asked, how is it that the Taranaki, the Ngatiruanui, and the tribes in Cook's Strait, Ngaitahu, and part of the Hawke's Bay people, join Wi Kingi if he is not a chief? Why not join Teita 1 Theie is an answer fiom history. Histoiy says that a canoe of chiefs from the Ngatiruanui and Taranaki went out to fish, and was blown oIF lund, hut eventually landed on the South island and conquered the old owners of the soil— the Ngatimamoe, taking all the women for wives. Soon afterwards, a chief fiom Hawke's Bay, called Tahu, weut along the East coast and crossed over to the South island, and joined the Taranaki and NgatU ruauui, and exterminated the Ngatimamoe. The conquerors took the name of Ngaitahu (or, as they prononnce it, Kaitaliu). These, again, became intermixed with the Ngatiiaukawa (the branch of the Waikato tribe), hence, then, the reason why these tribes join W. King, and the agitation in favour of King on the East Coast, the original source of Ngaitahu. Another proof that Wi Kingi is not the chief of Ngatiawa is the present move of the above tiibes to assist him, when, if he were the chief of the Ngatiawa he would be an " uto "—i.e., marked man— of Taranaki and Ngatiruanui, for " Citizen " must know that history proves that the ancestors of Te Teira and lhaia for ages have been at war with and eaten the chiefs of these tribes. We said that Te Teira, young man as he is, can repeat the most saeied of all their ancient incantations, the Popoarengaienga, which is that used by the head chief, who is priest of a tribe, and that Wi Kingi cannot. Wo Hill gofuither, and say that four of the five chiefs who signed the Maori document used by " Citizen " cannot repeat a popoarengarenga. Wi Maihi can repeat that of the Aiawa, but Hoete and his friends ought to be cautions of calling the chief of Ngatiawa a man of no name, in other words that he is not of the direct line of chiefs from the migrations, for they ought to remember that if they mislead " Citizen," and he is so shallow in Maori history as to print this unfounded slur on a Maori chief, we of Taranaki know a little of Maoii history and can say that their forefather is an interloper in the Thames — that they are not of any migration, but part Aiawa and part Horouta — that the slur of Kumara stealing was the cause of their ancestor leaving Waikato on his way from Te Whai-o.paoa (Hick's Bay) as a wanderer through the Wuikato tiibes ; that they cannot even claim a direct descent like that of the Ngaitahu or the Rangatane, who like the Ngatipaoa, killed the people and took their land, in the respective districts they now_occupy.

The public is now mloimed by the publishers, of the late Loid Macaulay's Ilhloiy of England that only some portion of an intituled filth volume has been lelt in inanusciipt, and circumstances will pievent any eaily publication even of that fragment, Scveial Articles in type will appear in an Extra on Monday next.