THE MAORI AND THE MOA.

Mr. C. IV. Purnell, Ashburton, in Ike “ Victorian Pexinw. ” Modern investigations into the origin and affinities of living races of men have proved of a more fruitful character than most of tho antiquarian researches of the last twenty years, which, claiming to have virtually solved man’s genesis, have really added little to our knowledge of that subject, beyond the fact that man has been an inhabitant of the earth for a much longer period than was supposed. Even where living races are concerned, when the thick rind of hypo thesis is stripped off, the kernel of fact is extremely small, while in many cases chaos is introduced where order erstwhile reigned. Tho subject of this article is a case in point. The old notion was that tho Maoris came to New Zealand from Hawaihi—interpreted to mean Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Islands—in seven canoes, about 500 years ago ; that they fsund the country uninhabited by man, and the moi occupying it in great num bers ; that they were accustomed to use this bird as an article of food ; that the moa became extinct, if it were extinct, but a short time before the arrival of Europeans; and that, briefly, it was probable a few specimens of tho moa would still be found alive in remote parts of the interior. The theory was simple and easy to he understood; and being so, the philoso phers promptly demolished it. An active enquiry has been going on in tho colony for some years past relative to the origin of the Maoris, and the date of the extinction of the moa. As to to the first branch of the' enquiry, the net result is that the Sandwich Islands are no longer regarded as the point from which the Maoris ’emigrated to New Zealand. A variety of reasons can he urged against t.hia view, but I do not think a better summary of them could be made than has been given by Mr. W. Colenso, F. L. S., Who contributed an excellent essay on the Maoris to the first volume of th».“ Trans actions of the IS ew Zealand Institute. TTis summary against the Sandwich Island theory is this (1) The utter impossi bility of the Maoris having come such a distance 65 ® of latitude) against the pre vailing winds in their frail open canoes ; and (2) The irreconcilable differences which exist in the habits, customs, manu factures, traditions and religion of the Sandwich Islanders and the Maoris. “ By way of illustration, the following may be briefly mentioned 4 (bearing in mind, that the New Zealanders, like most other uncivilised people, most pertinac.ously ad here to the plans, patterns, and sort of things made by their ancestors) : (a) all the various kinds of the New Zealand canoes are very differently made from those of the Sandwich Islands ; (b) they have no outrigger; (c) the N w Zea landers never use the kjFva root (notwithstanding a very closely al lied specie of the piper grows throughout New Zealand); (d) nor the bow and arrow; (e) the New Zealanders invariably carry their burdens on their backs, the Sandwich Islanders on a balance-pole over the shoulders ; (f) the New Zealander has no words for swearing, oath or vow ; (g) the New Zealander never practiced circumcision ; (h) nor had any temples for religious worship; (i) nor idols; (j) nor king; (k) they knew not the names of the numerous chief gods of the Sandwich islands; (1) their old customs respecting their chiefs. &c., do not agree ; (m) their tattooing is different ; (n) they had no £ refuge cities ’ (a most remark able custom, only found at the Sandwich Islands.”) There is (3) fm£lJtirno vestige of any of their several emigrations from Hawaihi and of the wars, Ac., which occasion them (as related by the New Zealanders) to be found in the ancient history of the people of the Sandwich Islands, whose traditions are much more ancient and clear than thosi of the New Zealander?. The Sandwich Islands being inadmiss able, opinion now inclines to Sarah, the principal island of the Samoan group, as the Maori Hawaihi. But it should be noted that other Polynesian people besides the Maories look to an island Hawaihi— the name being spelt in a variety of ways, so as to suit local dialects —as the place whence they emigrated to their present abodes. The learned fancy of dissolving all historical tradit ons into myths has been at play here, as elsewhere, and the mythologists have made up their minds that “Hawaihi” is a Polynesian Garden of Eden, the allegorical birthplace of the race. It is an easy way of saving the trouble of investiga tion ] but the Maori accounts of the navigation from Hawaihi are for too cir cumstantial to permit us to adopt the myth theory, and are, moreover, corroborated by .facts which testify to their accuracy. The names of the canoes which bore the South Sea argonauts, the names of the chiefs who led the expedition, and some of the incidenls which occurred upon its arrival at New Zealand, are all preserved in Maori lore. It has been handed down from father to son that tho immigrants brought with them some of the dogs which they had been accustomed to use for food, and it is admitted by zoologists both that the Maori dog, now extinct, was identical in breed with the South Sea Island dog, and also that it was not indigenous to New Zealand. So tradition affirms that the cargo of one of the canoes, called the Aotea, included sweet potatoes, live edible rats in boxes, and tame green parrots. Of another canoe, the Arawa, it is related that when the voyagers approached the shores of New Zealand they were struck with the. beauty of the rata blossom, and one of them, named Taminihi, ‘ ’ threw away his kura”—which was a head-dress made of red feathers, described by Oook as worn by the South Sea Islanders—think ing to get a new and better one from the rata flowers. This kura drifted ashore, and it was afterwards picked up by a person named Mahina, who refused to re store it when asked ; hence the proverb still commonly in use, “ Kura-pae-a Mahina,” signifying a waif or godsend. If the rata was in bloom when the Arawa arrived, it must have been about the month of February. Many other little incidents might be quoted to show the cir cumstantial nature of the account given by the Maoris of their coming to New Zea land, and of the extreme improbability of Hawaihi being a mythical locality. More over, there are traditions extant of return visits made to Hawaihi both by the first emigrants and their successors. It is re lated by one of the named Nga bori-i-rangi, that, being carried by a favor able wind he reached Hawaihi in seven days and nights after leaving New Zea land. A piece of detail showing the dis tance which the natives imagined Hawa ; hi to be from New Zealand. This migration of the Maoris from Hawaihi to New Zealand was a surprising event. The grand expedition—if it may be so termed —did not set out on a blind voyage of discovery, looking for new worlds to conquer. The voyagers knew that a large and fertile country existed south of their own home before they sailed. A southern Don Juan, Kupe by name, eloped with another man s wife, and setting off in a canoe, called Mata lionia, drifted down to New Zealand, where he visited both islands — s P e ?h more precisely, he circumnav the North and discovered the Middle, or South Island, as it is usually called by the settlers—while doing so.' He did not, however, settle in New Zealand, but returned to Hawaihi, having apparently taken his marine excursion for the pur pose of giving the injured husband’s wrath time to cool. Then Ngahue went to the new land, and gave it a name, the first name it’bore in history—Aotea roa, or “ the long day,” and, ultimately the' great •

expedition set ou J , from which the present Maoris derive their descent. Now, when we reflect that the Samaon group is about twenty degrees of latitude north of New Zealand and that the Kermadce Islands, the nearest group to New Zealand, are nevertheless 400 or 500 miles distant ; remembering, also, that these South Sea voyagers possessed nothing that could properly be called a ship ; still more, that they were without a compass, and that virtually the whole of their voyage was made out of sight of land, we are hound to acknowledge, in most liberal terms, their possession of maritime skdl and courage. To each of them the words of the Latin poet arc applicable :—■ “ Illi robuv et ess tiiplex Circa pectus erat qui fragilem tnici Commissit pelagcm ratem Primus.” The South Sea Islanders have ever been bold sailors, and those who sailed down to New Zealand, there to found a barbar ous community, full of intelligence and vigor, but wasting it in fierce wars and cannibal atrocities, were distinguished ones. They have retained their maritime courage till modern days. Several times, according to Mr Edward Shortland, a competent authority, have attempts been made by Maoris to return to Hawaihi, and only about five-and-thirty years ago “ an instance occurred at Tauranga, on the east coast of the North Island, where a family fitted out and provisioned a canoe for a” long voyage, and then put to sea with a design of returning to that island, having no better guides than the stars and the tradition of its position. The fate of these intrepid voj'agers was, of course never known in New Zealand. Some of the Maori kindred, instead of going to New Zealand, went to the Chat hams, 600 miles to the eastward. How they discovered these remote islands, lying quite out of the track of their ordi nary voyages, we cannot guess ; nor do we know whether their departure was coincident or not with that of the emi grants to New Zealand- Probably it was : the traditions of the Morions (as the Chatham Islanders are now called), like those of the Maoris, ascribe the migration to the devastating wars in Hawaihi ; and inasmuch as other South Sea Islanders possess traditions of their own of a similar character, we may conclude that at this particular juncture, society in Hawaihi had become disorganised through internal feuds, and a general exodus took place in consequence. How ever, the people who went to the Chat hams found another race already in pos session, taller, darker in color than them selves, and tracing their descent back through thirty generations to Rongomai, a Polynesian demigod, and also looking to Hawaihi as their ancestral home. Sub sequently, a batch of Maoris came down from New Zealand (how they learned of the existence of the Chathams, tradition does not tell us), and all three tribes were finally interfused, composing a people with a different language from that of the Maoris, or at all events, a strongly-marked dialect of the mother tongue, and further characterised by peculiar manners and customs.

It was not want of room that drove the Maoris who went to the Chathams from New Zealand thither. New Zealand was big enough and to spare for a hundred times the number of its inhabitants at that time ; but its people were constantly fighting and killing one another; the loving spirit, too, was strong upon them. We were about to write—con stantly killing and eating one another, but that might have been incorrect, because, if we are to believe a Maori legend, it was not until after their arrival in New Zea land that the Maoris took to cannibalism, although when they did acquire the habit, they became the most ferocious cannibals under the sun. This legend also indicates that after the first grand immigration, other influxes of Maoris took place ; and, indeed, if such a tradition had not existed it would have been difficult to account for the immense number of people, compara tively speaking, which occupied the islands at the lime of Captain Cook’s visit, or even for the reduced numbers since, in asmuch as, according to Maori traditions, the Maoris have not been in the country for a longer period than from 350 to 500 years. (to be continued )

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT

ASHBURTON— Tuesday, March 2. (Before Mr. F. Guinness, R.M.) NEGLECTING TO REGISTER A BIETII. John Doak, of Wakanui, was charged with having neglected to register tho birth of a child contrary to section 1(5 of the Act. Accused pleaded ignorance of the Act. He was fined ss. Thomas Greenaway for a similar neg lect pleaded forgetfulness, and was also mulcted in the sum of ss. His Worship desired to call public at tention to section 142 of the J.P. Act, by which no Government official was allowed to charge fees in cases of convictions of this nature, therefore no costs would be awarded. FURIOUS BIDING. J. Quinton and Charles Smithel were charged with furious riding in Burnet street ; both the accused pleaded “ ISot guilty. ” James Purchas, hairdresser—Saw tho accused on Feb. 4th. Quinton turned up Burnett street, some distance ahead of Smithel, who afterwards galloped up to Quinton and then both went at top speed; heard just afterwards that Smithel was thrown. W. H. Zouch, recollected seeing Smithel and Quinton start from the Somerset Hotel and whip their horses into a gallop up Burnett street. Saw Smithel fall, and thought he was killed. They were going at a dangerous pace. By accused, Smithel —I saw yen both cross the railway together; you were racing. By Quinton—l don’t think you had a whip. Smithel pleaded that his herse was obstinate and shied, and he was only trying to keep it straight with a stick. The Magistrate said it was evident that both accused had been racing, and he would fine them L 5 each. HORSE STEALING. The adjourned case against John O’Brien for horse stealing was then heard. Donald Gunn, station master at Hinds, sworn—l saw prisoner at the Hinds station about three weeks ago. He came to the station about half-past nine, and bought a ticket for Ashburton. He told me he had sold his horse and saddle for LB. By the Bench—l have no doubt as to prisoner being the person who purchased a ticket. At prisoner’s request Mr. Little was re called, and in answer to questions by pri soner, said :—I gave you LlB, and de ducted 9s. for what you owed. My groom was not present when the money was paid. His Worship cautioned prisoner that the questions he was putting only tended to criminate him. Prisoner replied lire wished to show that ho had only received L 8 for the horse. Prisoner was then committed fear trial. Bail would he allowed —himself in L2OO, and two sureties of Lloo> each. LARCENY OF A. SADDLE. John O’Brien, the same prisoner, was charged with having; stolen a saddle value L 5. Prisoner said he considered the saddle ought to, go with the horse, and pleaded not guilty. TTS a Worship after hearing the evidence saitllio could sot see why two separate

charges had been laid, and lie would dis miss this second case and incorporate it with the horse stealing case. CIVIL CASES. Friedlandor Bros. v. Patton. —Judg- ment confessed, defendant to pay costs Mitchell and Turner v. McAvey. —Substi- tuted service granted on the Gaoler at Lyttelton. Harris and Ireland v. Baker and Brown.—Mr. Purnell for plaintiff, Mr. O’Beilly for defendant _ Claim Ll2 IGs., for professional services in preparing a lease. The case was a lengthy one, and was decided in plaintiffs’ favor, with costs. Lontjheach’Road Board v. T. Magee. —Claim Tj3 4s. for rates due. Plaintiff pleaded that he was not the owner of one of the sections for which he was rated. His Worship said this was the wrong time and place to object, and gave judgment for the amount claimed with costs.

LICENSING COURT.

Present —F, Guinness, R.M., Chairman, and John Grigg, Esq. Mr. R. Patten applied for an extension of time to enable him to finish his house at Methven, as he had been unable to ob tain timber in time. Extension granted for fourteen day. The Licensing Bench was then adjourned till Saturday week at 12 o’clock.

THE ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1880.

Printed and published by Horace Jo 11 ,* 8 Weeks and Charles Dixon, at their Printing Office, East Street, Ashburtcr, Thursday, March 4, 1880,



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Ask for and be sure you obtain “ KEAT • ING’S POWDER,” as Imitations are Noxious, and fail in giving satisfaction. ‘ Sold bv all Chemists in Tins. is. & 2s. 6d. each e 63c s GRATEFUL—COMFORTIF G. ) - E «s BREAKFAST COCOA. “ “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application oi I. .he fine properties of well selected cocoa, Mr. " Epps has provided our breakfast tables with ' delicately-flavoured beverage which may save t us many heavy doctors’ bills._ It is by tne judi cious use of such articles of diet, that a constitu tion may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating arcund us, ready to attack wherever there is a weal; ’ point. We may escape many a fata shaft bj t keeping ourselves well fortified with pure bicod and a properly nourished frame.” —The Cni, . Set vice Gazette. SOLD ONLY IN PACKETS LABELLED JAMES EPPS AND CO j Homccpathic Chemists, Loudon.



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