STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1881

EARLY SKETCHES OF NEW ZEALAND.

No. X.—NELSON.

WORTHY Captain Wakefield! In his superintending of the settlement every dili gence and kindly disposition was mani fested. Straitened, by want of adequate means, when all possible and impossible work, was expected to be done. The avail able lands of Nelson comprised about 200,000 acres ; hut these were mostly pur chased by absentees, who contributed nothing beyond the first cost. His inces sant application to meet exigencies, drew around him the close friendship of all gentlemanly minds about tho place; a satis factory feature in contrast to that en joyed to so limited an extent by the Go vernor at the north, who had to endure im patient "land sharking" there, and at the south, land-buying mistakes, with all the alarming consequences. Gloomy was the general mourning, some time afterwards, when Wakefield, with the flower of the Nelson community, fell under the Maori tomahawk and patua, at Wairau, ere ano ther year passed. It appeared that Te Rauparahaliadsold the Wairau district to Captain Blenkensopp, for a big gun under a deed, which was again sold andj conveyed to the Company. The old chief finding he had become possessed of a "white elephant," repudi ated the bargain, and prohibited the survey through his Executive Chief, Te Rangi haieta. Urged to pursue legal rights to the land (particularly Dy the eccentric magis trate), Captain Wakefield, officials aud constables, handcuffs, etc., proceeded to the Wairoa with the R.M., armed with write, for the apprehension of the two chiefs, by whose orders opposition to the surveys was said to have been made. Heedless of the true character and antecedences of Te Rauparaha, it appears, that before an un derstanding could be gone into (a different mode of dealing to which Te Kauparaha had been accustomed)

' A SCUFFLE TOOK PLACE between the Europeans and Tc Rangihaieta during which, his wife was accidentally shot, and immediately twonty-eight of the Europeans were shot down and tomahawked to death; six only escaping. Mr Cotterell, an unarmed Quaker, whose kindness and liberality were well known, backed to a tree with uplifted hands, but met with the same butchery as his companions—such was the Nelson story. During our sojourn at Nelson, a handsome schooner, "The Royal Mail," entered the harbour, trim, taut and clean, as a cruiser— in ballast—with a large crew. The Captain sought out the services of a surgeon, and mysterious reports got abroad, with all kinds of amplifications, when it was known that a surgeon was required to ship for tho voyage, terminating in Sydney. Piracy was whispered, and the ladies indulged in sensational confabulations. The non-success of the inquisitorial visitors on board es tablished the schooner's prestige as a real " Red Rover " —"what else could she be? She certainly was not a whaler, nor " coaster," only large stone ballast could be seen in the hold, and all they wanted with the port was a " medical man." However, as young emigrant-ship members of the profession were not scarce, one was procured upon enormous pay, it was said, and away went the unwonted stranger UDon her secret mission, affording numerous hre-side evenings of in- \ tense alarm and speculation, until it was subsequently reported that she had been in one of the fiords of the West Coast, and whilst blasting a reef of pounainu, one or tw ; o of the crew had beeniniured—also that she had transhipped at Sydney! a quantity of the stone for China, where it fetched '£1,000 per ton,{for the manufacture of idols. • No. Xl.—Massacre Bay. The opening up of the Country about Nelson appearing to be a far off acquisition, we entered into a trading spec, by the char ter of a fine little schooner, the FAIRY, OF SEVENTY-TWO TONS, out of Sydney. Mr Long, the. owner, was a gentlemanly fellow, desirous of seeing a little of the New Zealand coast, and made easy terms with üb. Gathering together a miscellaneous cargo, we called in at Massacre Bay to fill up with cut timber. Nearing the Aorere River, at about the centre of the bay, by the whale boat.hve found in the hill gorge a deep transparent sheet of water, reflecting huge overhanging arms of the rata, and far down on the floor of the basin gigantic trunks of trees were deposited. Whilst discussing on shore the contents of a basket of cold fowl, tongue, biscuit md sherry, we further amused our selves by casting pebbles into the wat«r of a rivulet. Had we then have been provided with magnifyers, or.ihad even cursorily ex> amined the particles of stone, we should have found ourselves on a " Tom Tiddler's" f round; for, in after years, these parts were iscovered to be paved, in a measure, with the precious metal, foretold by. Dr. Hoch stetter.

Getting our raft on board, and making up a deck load of "sawn stuff," we bowled away in the evening with a seven-knot breeze. Shaping to clear "Farewell Spit" at nightfall, we were brought up all- stand ing by the schooner leaping, with the quarter ebb, upon a covered reef, and dis tributing crew and passengers head first about the floor and deck like ninepins. The. master had not been aware that the reef extended so far, "the chart being wrong." The wind was increasing, and the sea getting up. The dim outline of land about Cape Farewell only was visible, some ten or twelve miles away. Boats were got out, but the whale-boat was found to be stove in by striking against the timber on deck. The deck load of timber was thrown overboard, sail kept upon the vessel for a time, hoping she would bump over the spit; but at every lift of the sea the creak ing and groaning little craft hammered (with her whole weight apparently) upon the bank, her frame trembling throughout; in fact, a succession of threats to break in all her ground timbers. Holding by the wheel-handles, the tall form of the owner bobbed his head to the spray that came over him, his hat gone, and long dripping hair about his face. Nugent observed ;to him, clutching " the companion"—"Bad job this, and the whale boat being stove—wish we had held on to some timberfor rafts." "Too late now," coolly returned' the owner; " when she breaks up, there will be a piece or two left, I hope, to lay hold of. You had better keep an eye upon the remains of

the boat." Presently, the ebb of tide per mitted the schooner to take more kindly to the bed she was making herself. Stumbl ing to the cabin, it was remarkable how the : ditHeront temperaments were there evinced of the different occupants. ■ The owner planted himself in the corner, and balanced the decanter of brandy and tumbler, the latter containing a mere taste, for head ache. Mordaunt emptied his more potent glass down, and wrapping his blanket around him (for he had divested himself of his wet clothes), turned into his bunk, and , was shortly asleep. Nugent was forcing port wine upon a lady passenger for heart ache and fear, declaring at the same time the Tessel to.be strong enough with her double timbers, copper fastenings, etc,, for far greater hammerings—"built expressly for going ashore without being wrecked, etc. Having administered to her dis ordered faculties, he turned to a passenger, who was in his berth, grasping the side of the bunk, and each time when the vessel came down with a thud, with rigid neck and dilated eyes, he, tremblingly moaned a loud chorus to the confused sounds around. "Here, take this, and be com posed, my dear sir," said Nuegent, holding to his mouth a draught of brandy ;-but the unhappy gentleman had apparently lost his wits, for he seemed to be insensible to all surroundings, save the bursting of the stern post, which he evidently expected at every blow. "Ne quid nimis!" muttered Nugent, as he poured the contents of the tumbler between the lips of our disturber (as if administering a dose of drastic drugs to a struggling boy), and threatening him with a berth in the galley or on deck, if lie would persist in further attempts to shake the nervous systems of the cabin-occupants. Determination won the day, arid Mr B fortified himself with a large prescribed dose with palsied hands, and smothered his perturbations under the blankets. During the night, as we were sitting on the comb ings of the hatchway, discussing the weather over cigars, two of the crew were also yarning in the caboose, and, as "flack's" remarks are usually considered to be somewhat authori tative, with extended ears, we overheard the remark " that we were on the Victoria Shoals," where the ship of that name "was lost, and every mothers son was drowned;" that "the sea was seen by Bill breaking over one of her timbers on the starboard bow." This fishing for consolation in troubled waters, we found, did not ex hilarate, and quickly retired from further eavesdropping. When the tide began to lift us again, we hauled, with assistance of the windlass, upon our stern-line, but find ing the kedge came homo, as before, replaced by the boat's crew, we hoisted topsail, and after numerous severe thumpings,theill-used little craft bounded over the spit. "Hold on to that line!" shouted the master, as the owner was about to sever it with the axe. In a minute or two the line parted near the kedge, and thus a large portion of a new line was saved. No. XII.-West Coast. With a fair aou'west breeze on our quarter, we came to anchor in the morning off the roadstead of New Plymouth. Here, two large flat-floored surf-boats came along side, and the passengers proceeded to land, with the one exception of our fear-stricken fellow-voyager Mr B , whose capacity had not yet imbibed a sufficiency of oxy genous vigour to enable him to face the heaving swell that lifted itself so ominously between us and the shore. Tha settlement presented at this time a happy, thriving little community of,- chiefly, Devonians. On all sides appeared open-house hospitality, unsophisticated habits, and of mostly rural occupations; some, busy as bees, fencing and turning up the deep rich soil, filling i their hearts with gratification, whilst breathing the most genial atmosphere, and witnessing on all sides landward, broad expanses of level slopes from the imposing Meunt Egmont, and abundantly inter spersed with pure running streams. Bright were their prospects of the future, to establish their chosen locality as "The Garden of New Zealand," and truly thankful that their " lines had fallen in pleasant places;" for no native "land question" disturbed their surveys, and.no thought of such existed in their minds; for " had not the country been conquered " and virtually depopulated by the great To Whero Whero, of Waikato ? and had he not sold it (con amore for £530) to the Imperial Government with all its rights and title ? and had not the New Zealand Company also bought the country of Taranaki from Te Kauparaha? Devon sliire families and relatives had answered to the calls of the first adventurers by ship loads of smiling faces ; articles of import were chiefly on the score of necessaries, ; with a fair' export of surplus produce. Leaving a portion of our miscellaneous little cargo, we hoisted sail for THE HARBOUK OF KAWHIA some sixty miles north. Taking the entrance at the young flood, with the breeze j aft, thud went the fore-foot of our vessel into the sandy bar, with a shiver from stem to stern, sending our philosophical friend Mordaunt, with his hands in pockets, head first into the mid region of the man at the ■wheel, who, clinging to the spokes thereof, roared out " hard down." After two or three' bumps, our stubborn miniature of naval architecture recovered herself, and after two or three surges she rounded the entrance into the wide land-locked harbour. Two or three. European families and the same number of Pakeha-Maoris were com fortably located at the landing-places, surrounded with enclosures of flowers, esculents, orchards, and paddocks, and in the satisfaction of doing a good trade with the numerous natives in the interior districts for potatoes, flax and maize. Here ' our co-traveller B—— overwhelmed us with liberality and delighted feelings upon escaping from the dangers of the seas. We had a pleasant/row up one of the navigable channels, and observed some curkras niches up in the face of the limestone cliffs, con taining remains of departed chiefs. The whole country appeared of a different geological formation than any we had visited at the south, a change entirely from the primary and vol canic. On our return, at the Rev. Mr. Whiteley's mission station, we witnessed some pleasing home features of domestic habits amongst the natives about the kitchen, tending cows and engaged with agricultural implements. On the neigh bouring river, we paid a visit also to a gentleman of very retired, if not ascetic habits. His occupation consisted princi pally' baling up, morning and evening, by a series of peculiar "cooeysl" about three score of goats. Here we heard of the intelligent investigations of Dr. Dieffenbach, under the engagement of the

New Zealand Company, for a geological survey of the northern and interior ports of the island.

Ready for sea again ; and after about 20 miles' sail, we rounded a lofty trachytic, mountain into WAIANGAKOA lIAfIBOUB. On the north side we passed some remark able cyclopean masses of limestone, with horizontal strata, as when first upheaved, but worn into castellated forms, by abrasion of the sea. After bringing at this port our business to an end, we waited several days for a shift of wind from the pertinacious west, to enable us t9 get out with safety, and finding no promise of this, our party made arrangements to walk overland to the Manukau, about 50 miles to the north, and there meet the vessel for the further pur suits of our trading voyage to Auckland, and thence to Sydney—the latter being the cliief emporium for New Zealand produce. No. Xlll.—Auckland. Our native guides and pikaus bein" prc^ pared, we ascended to the usual lofty Maori tracks, bivuacking on a basaltic range. 'We handed shares of our biscuit, damper and cold fowl to our happy looking attendants ; but during our repast, wj observed them packing the supplies which we had made into kits, carefully wrapped in leaves of a plant which they had gathered. Upon desiring them to fortify their " inward man " as we were doing, they smilingly answered that our presents were to be given to their friends, and proceeded to make their meal off karaka berries and dried eels. Upoii handing them a tumbler of wine and water, they emptied into their mouths the water out of a bottle and poured therein the wine we had given them for like reservation, designating it "rongwn," or medi cine. "Happy beings," quoth Mor daunt. "If you could so remain without falling into Kilkenny cat-like rows, and had not the opportunities of being civilized, with its concomitants of devilish rum and powder, how enjoyable might be your lot." Upon the last of our mountainous journey our track wound near the grave of a Maori cliief —a gloomy-looking dell, partly overgrown with native shrubs, The site, about twelve feet square, was enclosed with half decom posed blankets j and in tho contre, up rose the bow of a large canoe, handsomely carved. When proceeding to peep into the interior of the space, so liberally vested with marks of adoration, we were entreated to desist; or deathly possession would seize the whole of the party, by attendant spirits of tho de parted ; and so entirely were the natives impressed with the certainty of such, that the Chief's buried guns and other weapons, together with his clothing, powder and "money" were effectually protected from sacrilege. Arriving at the neights above the beautiful Waikato river, we came to a hut, and spread our repast of pigeon, &c< It was a glorious morning, with a range as far as the eye could reach of open country, bathed in the richest tints of atmospheric beauty and delight; for before us, to the North, lay " the county of Eden." "And is this the country !" broke forth Nugent, "so vilMed by the AVellingtonians. Can it be possible that such unscrupulous slander should have had its effects so long, for political and selfish schemes ? Surely such monstrous crimes as systematic misrepre sentations, to delude, the unwary, will be visited some day, by the great creative intelligence. This, the despised and rejected country of Hobson's choice !" "My dear fellow," replied Mordaunt, you forget that the great ruler of all things may have mercifully withheld visitations of dis : pleasure, for this breach in ethics till the 1 spread of a new population over the least desirable parts of the country should first have been induced ; for if this fairest por tion,with its superior climate, and numerous harbours, had received first attention, the south might have lain for a far oil. period, before its primitive rugtjedncss would have been colonized; we are all frequently in tho habit of judging by our human ideas of the mode by which mundane matters should fall into perfection at once; forgetting that every atom of our sentient knowledge, and -even we ourselves, highest in civilisation, (save the mark), serve but as links in the great chain of things necessary, in all minute details, for state of perfection. We might, with the like kind of consistency, imagine that the motions and positions of the planetary bodies, couldhave been much better arranged with line and rule admeasure ment, than jumbled about, irrespective of order, as they appear to be." "Be me faith," observed Bellew, "if you talk upon the score of expediency, I would have, with the most polite invitations and induce ments, shipped off the Maori lords and fol lowers of this magnificent land of promise, to the mountains and burrows of the South; so much more compatible with their habits and customs, to let off their dirty tempers upon one another, after the manner of hyenas in a cage." "Ah, Bellew," remarked Mordaunt, " your hyena suggestion is too late now to lay before the Governor, for our present generation must be content to work out the great future of these islands, with intermixed temperaments, through fair and through foul."

The Koran.

IT is an article of necessary faith through out the Mussulman world that every word in the Koran was dictated to Mohamed by God through the mouth of the Angel Gabriel and in the Arabic tongue. Ibn Khhaldoun, an accomplished Moslem his torian of standard authority, says-?—"Of all the divine books the Koran is tho only one of which the text, words, and phrases have been communicated to a prophet by an audible voice. It is otherwise with the Pentateuch, the Gospels, and the other di vine books, which the prophets received under the form of ideas." This view is fully borne out by the Koran itself. In the 75th Sura, for example, God is represented as saying—"Move not thy tongue, O Mohamed, in repeating the revelation brought thee by Gabriel, before he shall have finished the same, that thou mayest quickly commit them to memory, for the collecting the Koran in thy mind, and the teaching them the true reading thereof are incumbent on us. But when we shall have recited the same unto thee by the tongue of the angel, do thou follow the reading thereof; and afterwards it shall be our. part to explain it unto thee." The Koran is, therefore, regarded by every Mussulman as an objective revelation, Mohamed being only the passive organ of its transmission.—" Contemporary Re view."

IN THE VALLEY.

Down in the valley fall shadows cool When tho fervid heat on the hillside burns; They waver across tho dusky pool That is greenly bordered with fringing ferns. Tho bridge above it is moss-embrowned, All ivy-festooned from arch to rail; And dark-leaved luurol across the ground Wanders and winds iv a mazy trull.

Hero in the vulloy 'tis sweet to muse; The World is far, with its cheer mid strife— THe restless World that can mako no use

Of sorrow, or brighten a clouded'life. Here Nature, calling to peaceful ways, Tho gift of her hidden lore confers; While her blue-bells sing, on tremulous sprays, A song tor the soul in tune with hers.

My heart to the pulse of tho Summer bouts, As I follow her stuns through lonely nooks, And read, in the silence tlmt Thought entreats, The poems we never find in books. Too swiCtly her golden momenta slip— Already the rose begins to pule; Alas for this sweet companionship When moaning winds through the valleys wail.

M. A. M. CItAMEJI,

FORGIVE AND FORGET.

Forgive and forget 1 'tis a maxim worth heeding, llccall the hursh judgment so hasty and stern; Not on« of us all but la certainly needing Some friendly forbearance and grace in return. Unkindnoss and malice nro weeds that grow thickly, But patience and love may transform them to flowers. Remember, our journey is over too quickly To waste on'ill-fcoling a tithe of its hours. Forgive and forgot! lot the bitter thought perish, Life does not lack sorrow moro weighty, more roal; And in the sharp sting of resentment why cherish The thorn that must rankle whore pardon might heal 1

Forgive and forget! Tor wo know not how often Twill spare us tho pang of an endless regret; Don t lvut for tho future your anger to soften, Oh ! now is the tluio to forgive aud forget.

BETTER THOUGHTS.

What men call accident is God's part. The road to happiness is self-denial. A joyful evening may follow a sorrowful morning.

Contentment consisteth not in adding' more fuel, but in taking away some lire. There have been more groans under crowns than there ever have boon under shackles.

You cannot tell by looking at this life what is to be the other life any more than you can tell by looking at lumps of paint what the'picture is to he when it is put upon the canvas. We seldom see much ostentation and much learning meat together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows ; and, mid-day, when he is highest, none at all.

The heavenly luminary rises amid vA pqurs; star-gazers enough must scan it with critical telescope ; it makes no blazing, the world can either look at or forbear looking at; not until after a time and time does its celestial, eternal nature become in dubitable. Pleasant on the other hand is the blazing of a tar-barrel; tho crowd dance merrily around it, with loud huzzah ing, universal threc-times-tl.ree; but, un happily, it soon ends in darkness and foul choking smoke.— Carlyle.

Printers' Blandsrs.

TYPOGRAPHICAL errors are a fruitful source of mischief as well as of fun. When a man telegraphed to his agent concerning a certain stock, "No; price too high," he was nearly ruined because the clerk at the ticket wrote it, "No price too high." It was a mere matter of punctuation, but it caused one pocket-book ut least to collapse. When, however, the übiquitous reporter gave an account of a railroad accident, in which a cow and an engine had a wrestling match which lasted for about ten seconds, the printer made him say that the engine cut the cow into calves, instead of halves, and then, of course, we all laughed. But in the last incidentof this kind, we are about to relate, we hardly know whether to laugh or cry. A minister preached a sermon which his people thought remarkable enough to print. The text was from Job, aud read : —" Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his-life." When looking over the advance sheets the proot reader saw that a blunder of the most for midable kind had been committed, for Job was made to say, " Yea all that a man hath will he give for his wife." He was a wise proof reader, and one who had a rather tur bulent domestic experience, and he natu rally shook his head when he read the words. He did not feel at liberty to make the necessary correction, but sent the sheets to the minister with a "query" against the passage and this marginal note, " This depends on circumstances."

Pious Lies.

Some people ignorantly think that by making incredible assertions about the Scriptures they thereby enhance the popular estimation of them. The Bible, of all other books, can afford to have the simple trnth told about it. A negro once thought to excite the admiration of his hearers by telling the most monstrous fibs. "My brethren," he said,'' we shall nebber habagin sech good times as doy had in de ole Scripter days. We'se got to be so orfn] bad an' sinful das it's jess as much as de Lord can do to stan' it wid us for scbenty year, an' even den he fills tip de time wid neuralogy an' rheumatiz an' yellow fever. So drefful wicked is we dat even de pore little chil'ren has to have measles an teethin' and mumps in order to show 'cm dat human life has got down to de dregs in debarr'l. But, brethren, it didn't use to be so once. In de days of de prophets a man nebber paid 'toutionto a young woman 'till he was fifty or sixty, an' even den he warn't in no hurry to get married. Hcknew dere-was time enuff for all dose tings even after he'd turned a hundred. Why, my frens, so remarkable was dose Scripter times dat men used to live to lie five hundred year ole, an' it not unf requently happened dat dey was moat twenty-five year ole when dey was born."



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