STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1881

EARLY SKETCHES OF NEW ZEALAND.

No. X.—Nelson.

Descending to the mission station, of the Kcv. Dr. Maunsell, we enjoyed another brief intercourse of refinement. The Dr. was absent upon some of his numerous duties, and thus we missed an interview with, one of the most energetic _ and single minded men in the mission work ;. _of lays intellectual, development, and high erudition; a New Zealand Dr. Johnson in Maori lexicography, but who had endured a Newton-like loss (the uearly complete work of several years labour) in the destruction of his manuscripts by fire, together with house and effects. We were lcindly for warded in his boat across the beautiful river Waikato. Arriving at the opposite shore, the boat was pushed.into a narrow creek called the Awaroa, and we found ourselves being conveyed under overhang ing boughs onboth sides for a considerable distance. Winding round one of its several bends, we surprised a large party of natives all engaged in damming the creek, canal lock fasliion, to admit the passage of some large canoes. All the party were nude, save a single flax fastening, and a ludicrous covering of mire. The men, first in sight, were of Herculean proportions, and from the utterances of the boat's crew we found the largest man to be the great Te Whero (subsequently King of New Zea land). After some speedy ablutions and the donning of mats amongst them, we exchanged the usual civilities, also, with the formidable chief and his wife —a lady of bulky proportions and as dig nified as she could be, after such a surprise during her miry occupation. Here we, discussed a bottle of wine, and compli mented the great, man on being now bettor engaged than when he sat, covered with blood and brains, crashing in the heads of his prisoners. But as the civility was couched in refined English and French, doubtless the compliment was utterly lost upon him. Parting with the usual ex changes of "Enoho 1" and " Haeri!" we shortly afterwards waited; into the native settlement of Waiuku. Here onr path ran parallel, for about half a mile, with shark and "dog fish" suspended upon frame-works of poles, being in course of preparation by the sun's rays for a native feast; the said fish emitting highly ap preciated odours by Maori olfactories. We pursued our course, around the extensive Manukau, while with a breeze from the south-west the faithful little "Fairy" entered the Manukau Heads by the North Channel. This heavily sea-washed entrance (as well as those of Ivaipara and Hokianga Bars) had been surveyed by Captain Wing, many years previously, in a whale boat, at his own cost of time and patient labour, from zealous motives. The passage through the dangerous shoals off the Heads wag thus rendered fairly navigable, and the elder natives related how those shoals once comprised their former grounds of cultivation. After a circuit of about 20 miles, we arrived at the eastern extremity of the Manukau, where volcanic ejections and lava streams divide by a quarter of a mile the harbour from the southern waters of Auck land, at the head of the Tamaki Creek. After a walk of a mile or two through high fern and scrub, over jagged blocks of scona, distributed around an extinct volcanic mount, in company with its several brothers, standing at various distances about the country, we arrived at the land ing place of Onehunga, with its two or three pakeha houses on a rise by the side of the road. Here we heard of Governor Hobson's death, on the 10th September, 1842, worried on all sides by conflicting in_ toreßts. The road to

AUCKLAND, lined out by the Surveyor-General Ligar, showed signs of its being in possession of all the country traffic, over a "level countxy," but occasionally through pools of drainage water, rocky patches, and disintegrated ash, until arriving at an angle where a cabbage tree stood sentinel at the entrance of a small mixed bush, and through which the track lay over roots and stumps, under broken Tines, and outstretched branches. Crossing the Newmarket stream, we found a path over the Government domain, where we canght first sight of the smooth waters of the Woitemata, aa {[ its outside beauti ful archipelago. Descending into the swamp and passing upwards from Mechanics' Bay—where no mechanics were seen—we came to a halt before Government House, a long one-storied domicile of wood, with rerandan, ami a wing at each end, the materials and fittings of which had been brought from England. Here a delightful view of the harbour entrances and objects in "the distance met the beholder, impres sing the wayfarer with the notion that the favoured occupants were in possession of supreme quietude, ease, and enjoyment, far from the contentious elements of winds and other passionate aspirations, associated with the southern rival port. At a short distance appeared the Metropolitan. Church, in course of erection, with a nave and spire, imparting to the mind home familiarities, and presenting also an elevated land-mark to ships entering the harbour. Below, to the right, the officials had ensconced themselves in a small bay, variously designa ted "Official Bay," "Glen Flibberty," and "Cooper's Bay." At its side, against the descant from St. Paul's Church, stood the unpretentious offices of the seat of Govern ment called " Blarney Hall;" above,andon the brow of the hill, opposite the eastern angle of ths church, appeared the ominous enclosure, erstwhile containing the unhappy occupants of "chokey." Below, off the landing place, lay a man-of-war, with its hull and lofty rig.' Turning to the west ward, down Shortland Crescent, away from the emblems of paternal government and clerical dignity, in possession of all the high ground, with Commercial and Mechanics' Bays on each quarter, flanking "Fort Bntomart," we now found ourselves among the business erections of raupo and board ea shops, interspersed with intimations in paint of hotel, mercantile, and legal occupations. At the corner, and looking up Queen street,- were blacksmiths', Travellers', and grocers1 shops; to the right were ranged in a line with the " Ligar Canal" a row of shops and "pubs." This street, although availed of for feed and repose of cows and pigs, was evidently intended for the principaTone of the town, by its greater width, running over marshy places (by an imposing looking Court-house with its two wings) and terminating apparently at the foot of a hilly background, Here a cap tious remark was made that the range of

ground descending to " Barrack " or Brito mart Point," but cut off now by the church, might-have been made an important trunk road, which gave rise to a description of the origin of the original surveys, and that the great adapter of plans to the ground of this future city was still a resident and admirer of the immortal instance of his genius. This sentiment in Felton Matthews filled to overflowing a small physique of very precise "get up," with coat of fur collar, sparkling nap, and Victoria buttons, who was said to have retired from his surveyor-general ship under Sir George Gipps, who, from a want of appreciation, had declined to give his sanction to the aspiring oflicial for wearing two epaulettes; and not even amending the affront by afterwards signify ing his willingness that he, the the Survey ing General, might wear three, "but, the third one on the nether man !" However, we both saw, and smelt, that the drainage and offal of the valley of Qneen-street led , into the Canal, with its boarded sides, and bridge of about six feet in width at _ West Queen-street, ii (contracted continuation of the Crescent, and about 22 feet wide). The bridge was erected with ingeniously bound 4 by 1 inch timber, and bore the appellation of •' Waterloo Bridge." The whole of this Canal contrivance cost the colony abont £50, and was the origin of growlings and discontent, (without due consideration of the uninteresting state of the Government Chest). This confined receptacle of the Mis, swamps, horse refuse, and defunct cats" and dogs, was argued to be more dangerous than heretofore, in the good old days, and when open with less abrupt sides, and when drunken men and canoes had easy access ; these evils, therefore, were of grave concern with newspaper editors, THE SETTLEHS. comprised an amusing medley of humours and objects; the variety far more interest ing to the psychologist than those of the communities wliich we had visited at the south; consisting of the orthodox and dis senting, the New South Wales element, the clerical in their head quarters, the old land claimants and the new, the mercantile, the shopkeepers, the Maori produce buyers, all in charge of the aristocratic purlieus of Official Bay, and Government House Statesmen. Several much questioned ?urchases of large tracts of land and slands in the north had been made by local and also Sydney people, by the dis tribution here and there to the natives of various hundreds and odd pounds' worth of much valued articles of slops, guns, powder, tobacco, &c, much to the en couragement of mental determination of other capitalists, and those at home through their agents. But unfortunately, numbers of the awakening natives, who had not participated in the payments, repudiated in uncivilized style the paper plans of boun daries, and became roughly confused over the simple terms of their Waitangi Treaty, and on the other hand, the non-recognition of individual rights by tho pakeha buyers. Then, again, various valuable considerations were offered for choice localities, with sug gestions of satisfactory distribution to the aboriginal land owners; but alas ! the perplexed Representatives of the Home Government, through the implacable Lord Stanley, were not empowered to recognise such transactions, over the limit of 2,560 acres, and then only through the Government surrey office and regulations ; interviews of gentleness, expostulations, and f ulminations, emanating from "Radical Court," and publicly made known by the mentally and physically gigantic Dr. Martin, editor of the "Cross Journal," rendered the happy looking little Govern ment House anything but the quiet abode that we supposed it to be. On the other hand, the occupant of this pleasant spot was a tall, dark featured, full flesh and bone dignitary, who enacted quarter deck austerity, and was called '' Bully bhortland," erstwhile naval lieutenant and colonial secretary, bearing upon his figurative shoulders all kinds of fearful accusations of the "opposition journal," such as being the cause of the Mongonui war, the Tauranga and Wairau massacres, changing the streets of Auckland, the great social evil of jobbing in lauds, quashing the Bank, and negotiating his drafts on the Home Government with the Royal Bank of Australasia for £15,000 at 15 per cent, with a promise of double that amount in Government debentures as security. Down below, within the precincts of the New Zealand Downing street, at Oilicial Bay, were to be seen the disheartened Freeman, so significant of the adverse of his name ; the active Connell, amicable and seeking on all occasions to throw oil upon the troubled waters which discomfited his executive colleagues and fellow-townsmen. Strolling in from his office, opposite Masonic Hotel, might be seen the athletic form of the Surveyor- General Ligar, with his cool indifferent air, and forgetfulncss of importunities ;or liberal-minded Coates, with his tall, slim, gentlemanly demqanour, and no want of office ability. Seven or eight official satellites participated in the gloomy sterility, through which they were desk toiling with the Government Truck. Great was the antagonism in the infant nation between the governing powers and the visiting, absent, and local capitalists, who were, so eager about the commodity of land, and spreading large sums about the country in perfect freedom, and in no way would these anxious benefactors of the public be satisfied otherwise in contributing adequately to the revenue. In pursuance of this, one day a great public meeting was invited to assemble in the Exchange Hotel, with its handy rooms in Shortland Crescent,

TO DISCUSS THE CRITICAL POSITION. There, then, assembled the great represen tatives of the people and adherents of the Government, with as seemly a sprinkling of officials as was admissible to be considered consistent with dignity, all dressed in genteel cloth, and phrenologically with sapient craniums. Amongst them, were remarked the great Doctor of the "Cross Journal," and the ostensive "captain" of the immaculate " Chronicle," the organ be longing to (it was said), and through which, the Government breathed. Next came a personage of note, from his careful necktie, shirt of starched consistency and button-up surtout, who had discovered that from a late day's commercial transactions his in come might be calculated at about £1,600 a-year; and thus feeling himself justified in resigning his appointment under shaky Government.' There stood a comfortable stoutish personage, presenting a large judaical organ, with good-humoured eye and laugh, dangling some massive watch seals with one hand, and with the other leaning on his cane; well-known for his

candour in newspaper writing, commercial integrity, and as one of the ancient tribes by birth. Next to him was a tall, Vigorous old gentleman, intent upon Gieat Barrier coppermining.andiinporterof cattle. There, another gentleman who had exposed his real feelingthrough the hired one.and afterwards instituted the independent " Mangle," or " Auckland Times, on his own account, by promoting a laundry machine, under which were rolled the sheets of his journal, and circulated witfi readable type, occa sionally on one Bide only ; . and giving rise on a particular exigency to a desperate affair, which may serve to illustrate the tone of the times. The proprietor of this important production was taking his sociable tumbler at the "Masonic (or called after the popular owner "Wood's Hotel," in the iiristocratic position of Princes-street) one evening, where Lieutenant Phillpots (afterwards one of the gallant heroes of Kororareka, son of the Bishop of Exeter, and lieutenant of H.M. ship Hazard), and others were indulg ing likewise. In the course of conversation, the gallant sailor, not being acquainted with the " editor," contemptuously stig matised the "MaDgle" as a "rag" only fit for unclean use, at which the man of mighty pen

"CALLED HIM OUT." After seVere heroical recriminations, a meet ing was, with all due form, arranged to take place at 5 o'clock in the morning, Dr. M— seconding his friend Mr Falwasser, the offended representative of the great fourth estate, and a dapper little official of the Commissioner Department hacking the lieutenant. The belligerants met at the appointed time on the site of the Northern Club; two shots a-piece weroexchanged,with all tlie usual deadly formalities. Tlie first shots took effect, one carrying off the brass button of the lieutenant's coat, and the other passing through the editor's coat-tail. The second exchange was hardly given, when the constables were seen running up the hill, and a stampede took place to within the courts of the expostulating "Rakau," or owner of the hotel, when the gallant lieutenant went up to the exasperated editor and offered his hand with a greeting of "You're made of real stuff; let us have a drink to gether," With regard also to the second round, it was insinuated by a quaking or envious associate that the seconds had in serted soap balls instead of leaden ones, at the suggestion of the speciously-accommo dating host; at all events, the duel was fought with the dire sanguinariness that so m omentous a cause was considered to justify. On another occasion, of a political nature, several notables were in the meeting room of the Exchange, amongst whom was, of course, a gentleman of medium height, large beard, dark, with specs on nose, serious regular features, of legal knowledge, deep in the fathomings of Government mysteries, and the admired leader ot "Radical Court." By his side stood a tall, sedate, elderly gentleman, beaming with smiles, and looking down with profound attention to his friend's successive tappings with his fore-finger upon the palm of his left hand. The elder one was aforetime British representative at the Bay of Islands, where he liad purchased a large territory at the north on his own account, and firmly maintained possession iv face of governing powers. He was about to proceed home, and beard Downing-street in the interests of the deeply-injured land claimants. Stand ing near there was a young, intelligent looking man, of fair complexion, in light clothes, apparently diffident or dubious over his present position, and was Co.to the one in the spectacles. By the side of the room, stood, or attempted to stand quietly, a tall spare man, with marks of gentle breed, although in fustain coat and trousers, with wild restless eyes and demonstrative atti tude. This was the son of a knight and M.P., and had made some heavy good hits at land jobbing, but was now in great ire by beyig hindered from further opera tions by regulations, and the dispatches of the despot, Lord Stanley. This ire was nursed by frantic declamations and mem orialising until some 15 months afterwards lie terminated the strife, in a Jit of lunacy, by ending his career with a razor. The room was soon filled with others of the respectable and the unwashed. A stir took place, when lo !Mr Coutts was called upon to take the chair. This appeared to be a slight incongruity anent the origin of the meeting, he being the sheriff, and of course one of the conclave comprising some of the the high individuals who were to be brought low. However, as he had enjoyed sufficient popularity to have been called upon on other occasions to take the chairmanship of public meetings, no dissenting voices could have been consistently or with seem liness tolerated. The proceedings com menced with a display of the most urbane and deferential demeanour on all sides, when a passing stranger might have sup posed the meeting to be of a sociable and pacific nature, and not that for a predetermined downfall of a dynasty and its enactments. Presently, a little more liveliness was in stilled into tlie assembly by some boastful allusions to the advancement of the settlers and country, and resolutions favor able to new public offices, pleasing to the ears of mechanics. Then came the chief order of the day, a resolution, calculated to undeceive the hood-winked rulers in Down street^-the incompetency of chief officers of the New Zealand Government, notwith standing the anomalous position of the chairman, he ably maintained the "chair'a duties," and paraded with scholar-like emphasis the formidable resolution to the meeting; and then, with a magisterial air, directed Ms oonstitutente to divide, if neces sary, to shew any dissenting opinions—the ayes to the right, and the noes to the left. The "situation" was observedat once, by the dependent "independent politicians, for were not Government adherents at the table " taking notes" of their op ponents ? Strong objections to this ruling were indignantly poured forth from several voices at once; and, at last, one of the stump orators, virtnally acknowledged the check-mate that had appeared. After some other entertaining confusion, the chairman, finding that no results of his determination were likely to occur, wholly determined the meeting and departed. This done, a zealous chair man was appointed, and British freedom was speedily re-established, by passing resolutions and petitions unanimously.

At a recent German festival in Phila delphia, lasting three days, there were sold about 90,000 glasses of beer, several thou sand bottles of wine, 7ff,000 plates of eauer kraut, 12,000 pounds of sausages, and 14,000 pounds of ham and tongue.

Better Thoughts for Quiet Moments.

MY SERVICE. What service can I render Thee? What use, dear Master, can I be 2 My huiula are weak, I know, and yet Some task tor me thoro must be Bat. Though I have neither strength nor skill, Some place there is for me to fill.

I cannot cut the golden errain. Nor sing the " Harvest .Home" refrain; But fresh, 000 l water I can bring From out the sparkling wayaide spring, To those who faint upon the field For uid that even I can yield.

I cannot with the (lahcra go To toil for Thee, dear Lord, I know; But I their broken net< can meed; My benediction with them send, Tue while I watch their white-winged boat Upon the sun-lit waters float.

I cannot on the battle field Bear flashing Bword and shining shield, But I can pause to drop a tear Upon the fallen hero's bier, And pray another, true and triod, May take the place he occupied.

I cannot climb the lighthouse stair, To set the gleaming Deacon ihero; Yet may my signal flre oend light Across the surging breakers white, To guide, perchanoe.noruo storm-tossed soul Jloj oiid the angry waters' roll.

No high position can I fill, I can but humbly do Tby will; Content in this, naught else I aik— No sweeter or more blessed task, The world ia wide, the work is groat, And I will gladly servo und wait.

"SPIRIT THAT FORMED THIS SCENE." " Spirit that form'd this scene, These tumbled rock-pilos grim and rod, These reckless heaven-ambitious paakti. These gorges, turbulent clear streams, this naked freshness. These formless wild arrays, for reasons of their

own! I know thee, savage spirit—wo have communed

together. Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of thalr

own; Wast charged against my chants they had for gotten art ? To fuse within themselves it 3 rules precise and

delicatesse 1 The lyrist's measured beat, the wrought-ont temple's grace—column and polished arch forgot? —But thou thit revel esthore—epiritlchat form'd

this Bcene, They have remembered thee." —Written in Platto Canon, Colorado,

Hide your own little troubles, but watch to help others in theirs. If there is anything among your private affairs which you are desirous of having unknown, be your own confidant, exclu sive of all others; then and then only is it all safe.

Some clocks do not strike. You must look at them if you would know the time. Some men do not talk their Christianity; you must look at their lives if you would know what gospel can do for human nature.

But a clock need not be incorrect because it strikes ; a man need not be inconsistent because he speaks as well as acts. What we call life is a journey to death, and what we call death is a passport to life.

There is nothing formidable about death but the'eonsequences of it, and these we our selves can regulate and control.

Stars shine brightest iv the darkest night; torches are better for beating; grapes come not to the press ; spices smell the best wiien they are bruised; young trees root faster for shaking; gold looks brighter for semir ing ; juniper smells sweetest in the fire ; the palm tree proves the better for pressing; camomile, the more you tread it the more you spread it. Only what we have wrought in our characters during life can we take away with us.

No life can be utterly miserable that is brightened by laughter and love of one little child.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

No man can so injure us as we injure ourselves by living for ourselves.

Not earthly suffering opens the way to heaven, but the manner in which it is borne. The higher life begins for us when we reuonnce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

Mr Hoffenstein's Dog.

" Herman, how vas de pisness dis morn ing ?" inquired Hoffcnstein, as he entered the store and hung up his coat on a nail. "Veil," replied the clerk, " I haf already sell yon suit of clothes, und a gnople uf bairs uf shoos." .

" Vat brolit you make ?" "De brofit, Misder Hofl'enstein, on dc clothes vas dwelve dollars."

"My gr-r-acions, Herman, how you was learning do pisness. Dat was righd, my poy; keep on dat vay und some uf dose days you vill pc dc wholesale pisness in. Rccoglcct nefor get discouraged und you vill be vclty, Yen I started in de v6rld, Herman, de only front I haf vas a dog. Did I eter dell you aboud dofc dog, Herman ?" "No Misder Hoffenstein," replied the clerk. •'Veil, de dog's name vas Ike. I got him yen I was beddling in de gountry around Vickspurg, und before I vent in pis neßsdcrel Valkmg, you ; know, Herman, from yon blace taanoder, I got lonesome, und I dinks it vas potter to haf a dog to keep de tiefs away, und dot vas vat made me got Ike." "Vat you gif for him, Misder Hoffen stein." inquired the clerk. "I gif a Jew's-harp, Herman, but he vas vert it. De nigger vat I dradsd vid said it vas mead in de Dot yen dat dog got ardor a goon. It was drue, und Ike vas de valu ablest dog de gountry in until he got de mange. His dail vas only dree inches long, and all de mange vent to dot spot, and yen I dink how Ike suffered, it makes me veep. He couldn't sgratcli his dail mid his deet, und he vould back himself Hiit a sdump und sgrach und vine und sgratcli undil it vas a shame, you know. Efery sdump he come to on de road Ike vould sgratch, und a man dat raised dogs dold me if I don't put tar mit Ikes dail und cure de mange he vould keep on sgratching de backyard bait uf himself mit sdumps undil I don't own. noding bwt the vront uf de dog. I dookdot man's advice, and put tar mit Ike's dail. Vat you dink, Herman, dat dog vent und sit down a bile uf shavings in, und yen he got up his dail shust looked like a broom, and some pad poys set fire to de shaving dat sduck mit his dail on und he left Vickspurg. De last* I saw uf Ike he vas going de town mit fire afder him. I vistled for him to come back, but he vouldn't. My gr-acious, Herman, I don't haf dookvifty dollars for that dog."



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