STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1882.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN MARMON, THE HOKIANGA PAKEHA MAORI; OR SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN NEW ZEALAND.

[ALL KIGHTS KBSERVED.I

CHAPTER XXl.— Continued.

My slaves had been putting in nwhi, or winter potatoes, and, besides, several of my friends had been helping me, and on this day I was to give a sort of feast—it was the custom when the work was done. On my return home I found the Chief Mac quarrie and about GO others at my place. I began at once to tell Macquarrie what had happened at the Bay of Islands, sonic of which he had already heard, and also what Tamati Walker had said about going to help the white people. Macquarrie did not agree to go so readily as Walker had done, Heke being related to him. We had a long talk, and at last I persuaded him so far that he and his tribe would go if the Wesleyan Missionaries would say it was right. Macqnorric went aw^y to his own place alone, leaving his men at my house. I suppose he went to think it over. He was a difl'erent man to Walker ; he liked to look all round things before he began. Alter the feast, and the evening was getting on a bit, the Key. Mr Hobbs came across in lxis boat; he wanted to prevent the chiefs going over to the Bay of Island?. The- only chiefs at my place then were John King and Macquarrie's brother Hftrn. Mr Hobbs said tho chiefs ought to stay and protect the white people and the Mission Station in Hokiauga, He also asked me "If I thought the chiefs would go?" I said, "Yes, sir, I think they will." Toe following day Macquarrie went to the Mission and asked if it would be right for him iuid the other chiefs to go and help the white people at the Bay of Islands ? The Rev. Mr Hobbs said it was quite right for the chiefs to help the Government, and that wnat Heke was doing was very wrong. Heke was among the first to sign the "Treaty of Waitanga," and promised to obey the laws, the same as the white man, and yet he was the very first to b»eak his word, and the white man's laws.

On the loth March. '45, the chiefs began to assemble from nil parts of the rivor to consult together. They come from the Heads, Whirinaki, and Maungainuta. There were about 400. One day Mr William White came over to my place. He told me he hod boenout all the previous night, going from place to place trying to find Moses Tawbai. He wanted Moses to prevent the natives going away, and leav ing the white, people here unprotected. Mr White had found Mosds Tawhai at last, and brought him, Wharepapa had come with' his mob, and said he should join Heke, because of the row the white people here had made about Mrs Kyan being struck. Macquarrie said he did not care ; he could fight on which sidojbe liked ; he was no good to anybody. " I haye got a maul and wedge," said Macquarrie, " that will split Heke." Moses Tawhai got it, and,made a great speech running back wards and forwards in the usual manner, talking a great deal, trying to persuade the chiefs fiom going. Mr White was pleased, thinking Moses meant what he said, instead of all this being said just to satisfy Mr White. "Just you listen, Jacky, ' says he, " Moses won'tgo." " Won't he," says I, "wait for his last words." When Moses had finished his big speech about nothing he turned to Macquarrie and said "Good-bye, I am going down to the Heads to hear what Moetara says, then I will follow you." " There now," says Ito to Mr White. "Now you know what he means to do."

On the 18th we started for the Bay, and when in Okaihau Bush we fell in with Tamati Walker and his tribe, so I suppose altogether we mustered about 500 men. Just before we got to the Waimate settlement, we found a great stack of pota toes placed on the side of the road, to feed us on the way. We did not stop to cook any, but just picked up a few kits, and marched on to Waimate. When we got as far as the Mission StatioD, we saw another stack of potatoes in kits—about 200, I should think—lo bags of ilour, a bullock cut in two, and placed on the top of. the potatoes; besides the food, there was a cask of tobacco. The^e things had been placed there for the natives by the mis sionaries. There were a great number of chiefs assembled—some making speeches to the diiFerent tribes, with a great deal of running about, a» usual when the chiefs talk. I saw Maka Makatu's father among them. Of course he was red hot to go and kill, rob, and bum all the white people. Tamati Walker went with the Mission, and he and Dr Burrows came out together. I had been standing outside watching a native, when Tamati Walker came out. I pointed to the native, and said to Tamati, "There, that chap is dressed in European clothes, and he has just got on Captain Beckham's shoes and stockings." Walker knocked the fellow down, and asked " what he called himseH—working for the white people ; then going down to Kuesell plundering them;" tfyese were his very words. Walker went up to Macquarrie, and said, " I have begun ihe war by knocking down a fellow who has been to Russell robbing the wbite people." The same night, about ten o'clock, Mr James Davis came Irom the mission to where we were camped, and tried all lie could to persuade Walker and the other chiefs to return to their kaingap, and not go on to Russell. Mr Davis said to Walker, " Yon have done enough by knocking down the native that had stolen the clothes; let that bo all the war. Leave the Government to settle this affair themselves." It was rather along yarn, for Mr Davis stayed about five hours. We heard next morning that while that talk was going Qn in our camp, John Heke liimself arrived on boTse back from Waitangi, and rode to Maka's tribe, at a little distance from us, where lit pot all the information he could; then rode off again. When the chiefs heard of this, Wirepa told Maka that, if he had known it,

ho would have shotllcke, and had his head. Which I knew lie would have dove. We spont the next day eating and talking, the women and slaves cooking. Thatnight John Heke's wife, Harriet (daughter of Hongi), with two or threo wives of chiefs, came to sec Tamati Walker. Harriot made a loi-g speech to Tamati Walker, in which she asked him to make peace. Walker replied to her by another long speech, in which he refused to make peace, and said he would carry on what he had begun. When Harriet found slie could do no good, she loft llio camp With the women that were with her. After Harriet had gone, Mr James Davis came again, and had another long spell of talk with Walker, still trying to orevent the chiefs with their men going on to Russell. I listened as long as I could keep awake, hut the conversation lasted so long that 1 fell aslerp and woke up again, so I daresay I missed hearing a great deal that was said, but it was, most hkely, all in the same strain. "Oo back and let the Government settle this ; it's their business, not yours." However, the next morning, instead of continuing our march to Russell, as had been intended, Walker gave the word to return to lloki anga. Macquarrie and his men returned home to Waihou, and I came to my own place. Walker and his tribe stayed in the open plain, at the entrance of the Okaihau bush; his men were short ot" provisions, and as there were sonic extensive kumcra fields close by thej dug them up—these be longed to John Heke's people, and Walker knew that well enough. A few days after the robbery of the kumeras, John Ueke's party came down and lired on Walker's tribe. Walker saw them coming, so was not taken by surprise ; one of Walker's wen was shot dead and seven wounded.

Macquarrie soon heard of the disturbance, and, with his men, started at once to help Walker. I followed the day after.

All were soon at work building a pa at the entrance of Okaihua bush, eaeli one had taken up provisions for himself, women and gills carrying them as usual, in three days we had built a good strong pub ; no pakeha would believe the strength ef these pahs if they did not see them. The mis sionaries from all the different stations came backwards and forwards trying to persuado us to leave the pah and go home quietly, but it was of little use; no o«e would listen now. A man had been shot and payment must be had—there must be war now. Mr Atkins and several of the residents iv Hokianga sent us a present ot some tobacco and powder; Mr William Webster made and sent us a present of some cartouch boxes, ready bored and covered; so you see our white fiiendson the river did not forget us. I had left my shoes at home, and went to fetch them, and returned to the pah the next day. When I got into the pah 1 could not see any one but my wife; her father had borrowed my musket. I saw Mr White, the ex-mission ary, who said he felt if he had had a gun he should have joined the ►kirmishers, for our party had gone skirmishing. It was late when I got my gun, so I did no fighting that day.

Some natives had coma from Whangoron mid gone to Hekc's pah for a few days; now they came over to give Walker a h;imi : this sort of fighting they called o'-liging both parties. It appeared they were uuuer obligations of some kind to Hike, and Walker also, mid they wanted to give them bolh a spell. Now if you don't coll that fair fighting you must be very unreasonable indeed. Our party and Heke's used to go oat skirmishing; sometimes there would be some killed and wounded, sometimes not; then there was an interval of a fortnight. There was plenty of communication between Heke's and our party: the women and girls belonging to us used to go backwards and forwards ; the missionaries also went from one side to the other, jusi as if no fighting was going on. Heke had built his pad over by the Omapere Lake, so there was no «reat distance betwen ns. You must not tbink that all the.natives iwho were with the two parties fought; there were a good many whomever left the pah at all, but spent all their time in eating and yarniug, saying repeatedly, "How well we are lighting. litke will soon run," and so on. one day, Mr Manning, John Leaf, and a number of HikiUVs tribe came over, and, soon after their arrival, Dr Cur rows tame into the pa. Dr Burrows seeing the white men, said, "No white man hus any right to be here-they should be in Auckland." "Sir," SftjS I, "every white man in the country has a right to be here and with a gun in his hand. You too, sir," I says to him. Fancy my saying that to a parson, but 1 did. Next morning, I went down and asked Mr Manning if lie would come with me. I could show him how the natives went skirmishing. "No, thank you, Jacky," says he, "lam going with my friend Hauraki." Mr Manning then went ofl* with his people from Whiri naki. He had turned up his trousers to the knee?, and rubbed his 1; gs and arms with charcoal, so that no one would take him for a pakeha. Mr Manning, John Leaf (Starboard Jack, as he is always called), and myself were the only white men fighting that day. The Whirinakis had two men badly wouaded in the skir mish. The day after, some went back to Whirinaki, among them Mr Manning and Starboard Jack. There was no close or continuous fighting. We were pretty quiet for about a fortnight, resting after a few days' skirmishing, spending the time talk ing. The incessant talk at those times among natives would drive a white man mad. Maoris never do anything without much korero. Daniel, a son ot Macquar rie, went over to hiokianga, and got a i present of SOlbs of tobacco from Mr Atkin, a merchant there. I got lib for my share. Then I went home, and had a look round my place, and saw how my cultivations were getting on. You see there was no one in charge, my wife being with her relations at the fight. During the short time 1 was away, there was a skirmish, in which Hum, a brother of Macquarrie, was wounded in the breast so severely that he died five days afterwards. Two others were killed, and several wounded. When I returned, they were burying the dead. This was about the end of April. On the 2nd of May, there were several visitors to our pah—Kcv. W. Warren, Wesleyan Mis sionary, Adam Clarke, William Munro, iiml Te Tui many others, about 100,1 dare say, altogether. One of the chiefs, Toko, was grumbling that lie had no powder or lead. I knew that Mr Atkin had given the Ruanui about SOlbs of lead, so off I wont and got it. This was made into bullets. Kai Toke had got hold of a cask ot powder, so he said he was ready now to fire away. Another skirmish that day, and one of the enemy was killed. Next

day, the Tanui (Abraham), Macquarrie's son, was badly wounded. The Key. Mr Warren had been over to visit Heke's pa, and, while he wa,s talking, a messenger came from (he Kay of Islands with a letter from '• Governor Fitssroy" to Tamati Walker. The letter was written in Eng lish, fo, of course, Tamati could not read it. Mr Warren rend and translated it to the chiefs. Governor Fitzroy told Tamati Walker that he was much p eased at the way he had acted in bringing up bin trilwj to defend the white people —that lie would mention his brave conduct K> the (Juccn of England and that his name would be great in the times to come Governor Fitzroy also told Tamati not to listen to the advice of people who tried to persuade him to abandon the cause of the white people but to go on. That is a« near as possible what was in the Governor's letter. Governor Fitzroy had sentapre-cnt of tobacco, blankets, sugar, rice, half ton powder, and half ton of lead. We heard that a man-of-war, the North Star, had arrived in the liay of Islands. She had brought 150 of the 58th and 05th regiments, under the command of Major liriggs and Colonel lltilme.

At the Bay of Islands, Fomare (one of the chiefs) had built a pah, and in it was a house and some property belonging to Mr Greeuway, which Pomare and some of his men were taking care of. Tho tirst thing the sSth men did under command of Major Briggs waste set fire to the house in the pah, and destroy all Mr Green way 1 sproperty —worth i'SOO at the least, I'omarc's mob would have lired on the soldiers, but the chief would not let them. Pomare himself wa.s taken prisoner and kept on board the North Star. It's a pity »ome one did not inform the commander of the 58th that the chief was defending the pakoba's property ; but that was only the beginning of a long list of blunders. This took place, as near as I can recollect, on the 4th of May. A day or two after the Governor's letter another messenger came from the Hay of Islands to tell Tameti Walker to make houses for the troops that were to come over. Tamati set his men to work and they soon had a king nikau house ready, and on th sth of May the soldiers came, and this was the first time I had the plea sure of seeing tlic "iifty thieves." 1 had livwl in Sydney when there were 1,500 convicts were in tlic prisons, but never met the equal of these "fifty thieves. Soon after tner.) came 100 sailors under the com mand of Captain Johnson of the Hazard ; then about 50 volunteers under Captain Captain Beckham. Altogether, I .suppo.se, there must have been MO white men. Maka Makatu's father lived at the Abu Aim, and had a great number of pigs ; four of the fattest he took to Heke, and the rest agrcat number, he brought to Colonel Hulme for the soldiers. These, of course, he was paid for. . J lie morning after the arrival of the blue-jackets, Capt. Johnson, Capt. Beckham, Col. Hulme, and the Ist Lieutenant of the sailors, went to recon noitre ; they wulkod to a hill about two miles from Hoki'spnVjusttohave a look at it. Of course I was with tlic party. When Capt Bocklium saw |mc—"Why Jacky," eaid he "you here." "Yes, sir," said I, "and so ought all white men be litre, with muskets in their hands." Colonel Hulme was looking at a point and said he thought it would be a good place to put the rocket guv they had brought with them, so that they could lire right into Heke's pah. I did not know the Colonel, so I said to Captain Beckham, " If Colonel Hulme wants any one to to show the soldiers the beet road to the point, I will go with them. The lieuten ant, a gunner of the North Star, and I went to the point The Lieutenant said the elevation van a very good one: we then returned to the officers and the Lieutenant reported the spot very suitable to lire from, aud well adapted in every way. After this was settled we all walked back to Tamati Walker's pah. When we returned, we found the soldiers making a fine show-oil' before the n«tivee. They had borrowed tomahawks, aud were showing how they would chop dewn Heke's mh— how well they could it, and all that sort of foolery. They soon sang to another tune, though. An officer was standing looking on at their game, so 1 says to him, " AVhere would Heke's men be to let them chop down his pah, sir," says I; "if your men were to rush the pa like that more than half of th-m would be killed. ihe enemy are hidden in ditches inside, and could shoot them uit' like winking." All this foolish talk was taken over to Heke; as usual; a great many of the natives under stood a good deal ths.t was said, and as they wtre relations of Heke and of his tribe, all we intended doing or they sus pected, was told Heke, while we also heard of his intended movements.

The Bth of May was a miserable rainy morning. The soldiers were marching oil' to attack the pah. I said to one of the officers that I knew of a near cut to the place they were going, instead of the roundabout road they were taking. The officer asked if I had any command. I said, "l*o, sir, only I know tliis place well." He went his way, and I took the thortest track, and got in front of them. I saw Colonel Hulme at the head of the soldiers, with Captain Beckhain, and on the roadside, a little ahead of them, was a party of natives belonging to the enemy, sitting down waiting. I saw at once who they were, and sang out to warn Colonel Hulme and Captain Bcckham. They stopped at once. When I reached them, they told me they thought the natives were friendly, and were some of Walker's men. The enemy, seeing they were de tected, went bock into JH eke's pah. I can't think how they could have thought Walker's men would be ahead, and bo near Hcke—but there is so much I can't under stand. The Colonel waited till the First Lieutenant of the North Star came up with some of tlie Volunteers. They had got the rocket gun, which they placed on the left side of the pah. The soldiers went on the right side, towards the Lake, and began to fire on it. Several of Heke's men were hidden in trenches outside the pah; they fired on the Boldicrs, killed three of them, and mortally wounded one— rushed up, and got safe into the pah. By this time the rocket gun was fixed. Tho first rocket fell about live yards from Hie pah, and this kicked up the dust a bit; the next made a hole in the pa, but iv a moment, as quick as lightning, another post was in its place; the next rocket went high over it, and tho dogs chased it, barking and making a great noise; another broke in the air, and, though eleven were fired, not another touched them, so at last they began to think the rocket gun was a failure. It would have been much better to have done what Colonel

Hulme thought of doing, and brought up the big guns from the slips ; then they could have blown the pah to pieces in no time. A shot was fired at me, but. it struck Mr Kussell, who was beside me. It fell into his coat pocket; it was a spent ball, so did no damage. 1 wiin (in my way to see what the soldiers weic doing on the other side of the pah. 1 fell in with the Doctor belonging to the soldiers, lie asked if 1 could find iiny one to help carry a wounded nutn to another Doctor a little higher up, he was so busy. I got the man up, then the Quarter-Master asked me to get natives to carry cartridges to the soldiers, but being chased by the enemy they threw the car tridges, which were in bags, into the wafer. There was a wounded soldier lying outside Heke's pah. Some of our natives .said they would try and get him, and if I saw a canoe come round that point, of the Lake (pointing to it) not to let tho soldiers lirfl on it, as it would be them with the wounded soldier. The soldiers got their cartridges, and were busy lilling their boxes. The native who luul gone to look for the canoe saw about 300 of Kawati's men in ninbnsh. He at once ran back shouting "Kawati Kawati." The soldier did nut. understand what he meant, so presented his gun and fired. By this they guessed what itw«s, and iired into them. In ihe confusion 5 of Heke's men came out of the cub. and iired in among the sohlieis, wounded 1 and killed'J, then got. safe into the pah again. The soldiers and sailors kept up their iire 'till some of Kawati's men began to run away ; the soidiers chased them as far as they could, hut being tumble to follow very quickly through the fern had lo give up,

(To be continiH'd.J

Selected Poetry.

THE GLEN'S RETREAT

fb'y Walter fivvlianan, in Goad Words.)

Par down the glen, where shadow reigns

And lonely springs in secret wocp, Where round the ntrcnmlet'B rillet veins.

The golden mosses creep ; Where'inong the lichened stcmes asleep, The lingering waters love to ttray- The.ro gladness waits, in ferny doep. To woo us down from day.

On upper earth tho morning sun May spread his joy o'er holm and hill, And. while the noon's licet shadows run,

Hri'^lit thoughts our breasts may till Hut ere the evening dews distil

Their freshness o'er the dusty way, The spirit shrinks, like summer rill, Beneath the blaze of day.

And though Hie lark salute the morn From diiisied .slope find sunny le.ii. And though the valley, rich with corn. In glory ripple free, Though woods with sunlight clothed may to, Where guirish gleams the distant brae, Whnl bring their brilliant joys to tliec, Who'it crushed with toils i>£ duy /

But down the glen, mong growing thinKH, Wheio ne'er ii sunbeam breaks ihe spell. Where Nature's fondest whisperings The listless cur compel, The HurlngH of thought, with welcome swell, Will round the heart their rapture spray, And fnith'H rcsiatless transports dwell Where dwelt tho doubts of day.

Ah, yonder, while tlic dewdrop clings For ever to the lichen's breast. While every breeze fresh odour brings And all things speak of rest. While dreams relieve the mind opp*esl. And chase the euro clouds all away— All, there, if aught on earth be bleat, Tis surely blest to stay.

Ring out the False, Ring in the True.

The world is beautiful; beautiful in its arrangement of hill and d.ile, of wood and water, and in its variety of forms of animal and vegetable life ; and all this .sensuous beauty is designed to form the soul of nun in sucli harmony with the beautiful spirit of the universe as shall constrain him so wisely to work out the purposes of existence as to secure a possible heaven here and now, to all men—even the most degraded; to in deed help men to fully realise that fresh air and wholesome food are not more neces sary to them than are strict morality, (rarity of thought, of word, and of need; since pence and bliss can reign only when out raged justice is as avenged n.s that rijjrht shall be triumphant. Then penitence tor wrong-doing, exerted under a constant sense of duty, prompted by the love which converts the stone of stumbling into the bread of life, becomes power the most in spiriting, for the heart that is capable of the deepest contrition is capable aleo of the noblest heroism; hence, the works of a genuine repentance are always unmistaka ble, whereas repentance feigned is open to suspicion, of course. To bo supremely fcappy, the true man mils' have a worthy purpose in life to live and work for. and if betrayed into sin ho will not be con'ont to say, looking God-ward, '"Against thee, thee only, hare I sinned,' for a guilty con science scatters thorns and thistles broad cast instead of flowers. He baa, therefore, sinned against his fellow-man likewise, and thenceforward his life becomes one long act of atonement, eloquent with the healthhil energy that makes guilt the incentive to nobler action, and ever onwards clown to the sweet by and by, in the litfubiess of his gentle life the- listening car surprises the unspoken yet tearful refrain, "I have sinned ;" not as the plaint of the coward, dreading the just penalty of his own de liberate acts ; but as the " take-heart-again" of the brave soul; master of himself, to whom much has teen forgiven. But the hypocritically penitent, trying, half un consciously, to deceive himself and others', digs a pit for his own feet and tails therein. Mourning grievously, he maybe heard to say, when his sins have found him out, "I did wrong," adding, with much humility, " and if I have done wrong let me sutler for it;" but his peniteuce is of the lips merely, not of the heart, as is proved by the bitterness with which he resents1 the involved suffering he would fain escape. Of such feigning, easily expressed, the world is well-nigh full, and pioportionately full of misery, for with all his bombast the guilty one cannot forgive himself, cannot be really liappv no long as he knows him self to merit estrangement from his fellows —so long as a dark cloud separates him from the brighter heav n. Demand a, beautiful consistency betwrrn word and deed, and men will soon lea: <o discrimi nate between the true .and liie false, soci ally, politically, and religiuusly, and you will then have cured half of the ills of life, which are mainly due to the insincerity of the self-deceived, and the inevitable re bound of false principles.



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