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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 6, 5 August 1908, Page 2

Dr. A. K. Newman, of Wellington, in a letter to the " Dominion,” states that ethnologists have traced the widespread, roving Maoris from New Zealand to Easter Island, Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Motu, in New Guinea, and Timor Island. There are Maoris living still in Rulo Nias, Mantawai and other- islands west of Sumatra. The more highly aryanisec, Nugas of Assam are Maoris, and there are Maoris in India. Further afield, the Havas of Madagascar are an allied race; they are cousins of Maoris. Lying West of Madagascar arc some small islands, Comoro (Kotnoro), between it and the coast of Africa. Mr. S. Percy Smith discovered that these people of Komoro Islands call themselves Mahori or Maori. “ New Zealand libraries are small,” Dr. Newman adds, “ nnd we know nothing more about the Mahori of the Comoro Islands; if they are pure Maoris, that is the nearest the race is to Africa.” ■ln a cemetery at Middlebury, Vt., is a etone, erected by a widow to her loving ■husband, bearing this inscription: “IL*it in peace—until wc meet again.”