STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

AUCKLAND, SATUEDAY, MARCH 25, 1882.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN MARMON, THE HOKIANGA PAKEHA MAORI; on Seventy-five Years in New Zealand.

[ALL RIGHTS RESERVED,

CHAPTER XXU.—ContMUccl.

THINGS weut on much in the same way until the night of the Sth of July. It was pitch dark, and there was a terrible howl ing of dogs that seemed to proceed from Heki's pah. There was a bell in the pah that they were in the habit of ringing every half-hour, but this night the bell was not rung, and, except the howling of the dogs, not a sound could be heard. I was quite struck by the silence and darkness of the night. It must have been about 11 o'clock when I heard Colonel Despard say (for I laid quite close) to Ned Meurant, the Government interpreter: "I wish I could fat some ouc to go over to Heki's pah and nd out the meaning of this horrible howl ing." Meurant replied; "Perhaps Mar nion would go; ho is the only man I know who would venture close to the pah." Meurant.cameiand asked me. "I said I was willinp, provided I could get anyone to go with me. I didn't like the job, but would try." Jack Grant, a friend of mine, who was there, jumped up, and said lie would follow me anywhere. We started, and when we got to the picket I told the officer what we were going to do, and that it he

saw anyone retreating not to fire, as it might be my mate anil I. Tho ollicer passed this along. I also told the ollicer that if the natives had abandoned the pah, as I more than half suspected, I would lire oil' my musket. We crept cautiously along, but the night was so awfully dark that we could see nothing, and I did not waut to get into a fix, so] I says to Grant, " This wont do ; I shall go and get sonic boys with eyes that aad sec better than we can." I wont back, and, after some trouble, got three boys, aud started oft" again. When we got quite close to tho pah I could hear a noise something like hammering, and my first idea was that the enemy were knocking down the front of the pah ready for a rush as soon as it was daylight. Then I crept closer, and could hear voices. I listened. I thought I recognised the voices, but yet thought it unlikely ; but when quite close I heard Macquarie's son speaking, then I knew the enemy were gone, and fired off ray musket as I had promised the officer, to let them know the pah was empty. Grant and I went about the pah, iuul found a number of our natives busily engaged robbing it. They, too, had heard tho howling of the dogs, and guessed that the enemy had fled, and had come to see what they could get. The hammering noise I bad heard coming up was the natives breaking open boxes, and smashing things, looking for booty. The enemy had evi dently plenty of food, for they left about 500 kits of potatoes, ducks, and geese in the pah, besides there were lying about pannikins, camp ovens, odds and ends of one sort and another; also, 17 muskets. We fonnd two women —one dead and one alive. By the time I had finished looking about it was daylight, and as I went back to the camp to tell the news, I saw Tamati Walker and John King with some natives bringing the muskets. I gave them a good scolding, for they had no business to touch the guns. It was my place to do so, as I had ventured to the pah. I told them it was only to show off their honesty, and wondered if they would tell the Colonel about breaking open ihe boxes for booty. I went to the camp and told my news, after tiiat re turned to the pah with Jack Grant. Captain Henry Grant, some soldiers and I, then went and dug up Captain Grant's budy from the tapu place. When the soldiers prepared the body for burial, they fouud it had been terribly mutilated, aud I heard afterwards that some of his flesh had actually been taken over to Hokianga aud eaten.

We found four big gun?, one of which had b'jen destroyed by our fire. The soldiers loaded the guns and burst them, so they could do no more mischief;thoush they had not done much here anyhow. On looking about, Col. Despard saw some of our nitie pound shot half buried in one of tbe posts of the pah, which it had only moved a little on one side. "Why, he said, I was informed by Rev Mr Williams that this pah was a very slight affair, and that a touch would knock it down." "I shall report this to the Governor." Two days after this we left Obaeawai and went to Waimate, where we buried Captain Grant, Lieut. Pbilpott, and an officer whoso name I forget. After this the soldiers destroyed' two small pahs, then went back to Waimate. Col. Despard and Col. Hulme went to Auckland to attend a court-martial; they were going to try two officers for cowardice. The soldiers went to Waitangi, my wife and I home to Hokianga. Col. Hulme was in Auckland, and Col. Despard went to Sydney, but returned again soon afterwards. Our soldiers began to build a stockade at the Kawakawa, and something ot a road towards Ruapekapeka, where Kawati's tribe were building another pah. At this time there were several man-of-war lying in the Bay of Islands. I stayed at home till the last day of 1845. I thought I would go and find out what was going on. When I reached the bill by the Omapere Lake I conld sec the smoke from guns quite distinctly. I went home and told Macqua'rie, and on New Year's Day, 1846, we started for the Kawakawa. The day, we got there, there had been a fight between Walker's men and Kawiti's. _We did'"not lose any men, but Knwitl lost three chiefs. Ihreo days after I had joined Walker's moo, wo marched over to Ruapekapeka. There were about 200 of us. On the road I fell in with Baron DeThiorry and Mr John Webster. They were taking letters for Governor Grey, who wasat the front. I too had a letter to deliver to Governor Grey from Sir Everard Home, captain of the "North Star." After I had delivered my letter to the Governor, ho sent mo to Col. Despard, who asked me what I was going to do? '"Shoot as many of the enemy as I can, sir," says I. The colonel asked if I would join the Volunteers ? and fave me half-an-honr to consider about it. walked off. There was no reason why I should join with anybody; I just wished to be ray own master, going and coming

when I pleased. By this time the stockade was finished, and the artillerymen began firing on Kawiti's, but they could not make the slightest impression, and I thought it would be the old rocket game over again; the guns wero small six pounders. The same day I fell in with Col. Despard. He said, "Marmon, are you going to accept my offer?" " No, sir," says I, "I prefer being my own master." ■While Col Despard was standing watch ing the artillerymen fire, I saw one part of the pah that looked blacker than the rest, and, pointing it out to the colonel, said I thought it was the gate of the pah. Col. Despard told the men to lire at that mark. They did so, and knocked down a post; fired again, and the gate stood open, and a native ran out to see what damage was done. It then occurred to me that there were no nntives in the pah but that one man, and I'll tell you why : Col. Wynyard was walking about in front, and he had on a red jacket; now if there had been any natives in that pah they would have been snre to fire at such a conspicuous mark. While I was standing there Mr Wilmot came up, and I told him what i thought, and also that I believed the natives wore iv the bush just beyond. Col. Wynyard was with Mr jWilmot, and after I had spoken the two oilicers walked away towards the camp. A few minutes after this I saw a largo body of men going up towards the pah; there wero 300 soldiers and 200 sailors, under the command of Col. Wynyard. Just as they were going to storm the pah down rushed Tamati Walker and Moses Tawai, shoutinc at the top of their voices to stop the soldiers. When they got near cnougli they told Governor Grey, who had come up, that it was maw man, and that it would be lileo the rush on Heki's pah at Ohaeawai, Governor Grey spoke to the officers aud stopped their noiiig on. Soou after this I met Col. Despard again, aud told him that the reason why Tamati and Moses Tawai had interfered was that they wished to have tho honour of being iirst in the pah. The artillerymen, who were now firing 32 pounders from the big stockade, knocked down the flagstaff inside the pah, and a woman was blown to pieces. At suuset the firing ceased. Soon afterwards a whole lot of the enemy came into the pah, and began dancing about, shouting in derision, and filing oil' their musKets, with all kinds of autics, to show their contempt for us. The next day was Sunday, and as soon as it was light John King sent my slave to see if there was anyone in the pah. The slave crept along among the fern until he got right to the pah. He came back and said there was only one man inside. A few other natives wont, and retnrued with the same report. This news was soon known in the camp, and directly a whole crowd of soldiers aud sailors ran off to the yah. They were soon iuside, while outuidc there must liavo been about 200 rank and file, who were guarding against a surprise. By tbe side of the gate that led into the pah was a large puriri tree, and in it, unnoticed by the soldiers, some natives were hidden. These fellows killed 18 and wounded several of our men before it was found out whero the shots came from, tho soldiers thinking the firing camo from the bush beyond. When the natives were discovered, our men picked off 7. One native ran out from the bush, got at a stray soldier, cleaved his skull open with a tomahawk, and, wonder ful to say, got safe back into the bush. Not a shot touched him, though hundreds were firing at him. Tamati Walker's brother William was wounded here. Tho soldiers and sailors soon destroyed tho pah, and the guns were taken from the stockade and put aboard the ships again. Our natives went to Russell, where they stayed a few days. Governor Gray sent for John Heki, who had now recovered from his wounds, but though Wi Hobson tried all he could to persuade him, he stoutly refused to see the Governor. Kawiti went down instead of Heki to Russell, aud there made peace with Governor Grey. The Governor went to Auckland in the Driver, taking with him several chiefs. In a week or so they returned to Russell. The Governor tried very hard to get the chiefs to consent to John Heki having a large piece of land called the Taiamae which he wanted, but it was of no use, though all the chiefs were willing, providing Mac quarie would agree. Macquarie was sent lor. He said ho would not give up tho land—it had belonged to his ancestors, and had never been taken from them in war. John Heki's people had lived on the land, and he had said nothing about it, but now it was different; he had lost his brother on that land fighting for the white people; he hail planted his flag on the big hill; it was his land, and he would never give it up! Nothing more could be done; the chief Macquarie's decision was final.

I returned to Hokianga. There had been a few changes among the settlers on the river, caused by Heki's war. Some went to Auckland in tho ' 'Victoria," a vessel sent by the Government to take away those who were too frightened to remain, though there was never any cause for fear; the rebel Maoris would not have interfered with peaceable pakehas, but, of course, they did not know that. A few returned to their old homes, and others stayed in Auckland. Things went ou nmch as usual as far as I was concerned. In 184S my wife died. I did not marry again. InlSSf) I went up to Sydney to see about a piece of land, where the gasworks now stand, that had belonged to my father. He had bought it in the early days. I found I could not do much about the land, co I put it into a lawyer's hands; he was to attend to it for me. I felt very lonely, all my old com panions were either dead, or gone away ; one sister only was left of my family, and she seemed quite a stranger, did not know me, and only remembered me by name; she was a child when I left home the last time. When ; I came to .Hokianga to see about raising some money to pay the lawyer. I found that the liushmea had been killing my cattle, and I was in a fix. I had no money, tho lawyer died soon after, and I have never been able to get money enough to assert my rights, for with out plenty of money one canuotgo to law. It is now 1877, and I am a very old man, and suppose I shall die here. 1 think the Government might have' given me a small pension, for dining the war I did many things which, had they been done by others, they would have besn both praised and rewarded; but then I had no friends with influence, nor anyone to speak for me ; had the brave Lieut. • Philpott (whose body I brought out of Heke's pah at Ohaeawai) lived, I feel sure I should have been re warded. In him, I lost my best and Only friend ; somehow, that bravo sailor officer understood me, and was very kind to jie

during the short time I knew him, I can't quite make it out, but I never did make friends ; too much pepper in my com position, I suppose. On my way up to Sydney I saw John Heke for the last time. We had a long talk together, he told me that ho never in tended to make war on tho pakehas, it arose out of jealously in the first instance, when Maketu's father, Maka, went about asking the chiefs to make Avar on tho pakehas for hanging his son. Maka went to I'omare, Kawiti and others, taking no notice of him, treating him as a nobody, This so annoyed Hekc, that he cut down the flagstaff to show that he was as brave us the other chiefs, and that he never had uny intention of hurting the white people. Then thijre was the scratching of Kohu's hand, (King George's daughter) at the Kawakawa. This brought the chiefs to gether to make common cause, but at the beginning it was as I say the hanging of Makotll, and the revengeful feelings of the father that was the lirst cause of the war and no ather.

Throughout the war, Hoke exhibited the moderation and temperance of an enlight ened man. A yc;ir or two after this, he died. His body was taken in great state, and buried in a native reserve at I'araraka,

Reader, need I proceed further with my narrative. I have brought you down to the time when the written history of New Zealand commences, executed by pens of infinitely greater ability than mine. My story is finished ; from lirst to last, it has been made up of recollections of the early days in New Zealand. If it interests you, my cud is served, and I shall rest in peace upon the memories of Cannibal New Zealand,

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Books Worth Heading

No. 4— Macaulay'sEssays and History. Few men have so cleverly and effectually served this generation as Lord Macaulay, and tho man who has not read and enjoyed his writings may be pitied. To begin with his Essays—what vivid powers of descrip tion and argument lie there displays ! New worlds—natural, political, geographical— pass before us like a diorama; men, women, kings, queens, priests, warriors, statesmen, seem as though they had come from their tombs to speak and act before us; great masses of men, in the almost forgotten past, live again, as in Sir Walter Scott's poetry, clad in the dresses, and wearing the very selfsame characteristics, as tney had three to livo centuries ago. Few literary men have done such gorgeous and yet reasonable word-painting: the Indian nabobs, with 'their wives, slaves, and elephants, brilliant in their rich drjsses ami glittering arms, their ovaft, cruelty, «nd cleverness; tho effects produced on them and on their peoples by ages of tyrauny and misrule, the way iv which Indian tyrannies were sup plunted and abolished by English tyrants, such as Clive and Hastings; the nature of the old East India Company, and its shrewd but unscrupulous agents,—all are described by Macaulay's masterly hand. The temptation of young men and young women is to play, or sock pleasure, but tho works of Mccaulay have created a large race of reading folks, «mongall who spiak English. There is a charm about them quite irresistible. Against his will ninny an old Conservative has learned to love Charles the first less than before,, and to hale'CroimveiraiuT tllePiiritans less keenly, if not to give them a sort of grudging ad miration and dubious praise. From the essays, every one of which is a condensed library (with the sparkling glitter of Mac auloy's intellect everywhere lighting them up, and making them especially full of iutercst) we turn to his history, which may bo partial and Snot always infallible, but has inspired thousands to read aud en joy English history, rtmlto be true lovers of country. If Marlboro' read Shakespeare for true history, this generation may more safely read Macaulay in the same spirit As a Whig he may be scarcely just to the Tories, and their deeds. As a sort of Gallio, he may have been unfair to Puritan zealots and other religious enthusiasts, but his errors on such matters arc shadowy and dubious, while his essays oa Johu Hampdcn and John Bunyan, show how he could appreciate spiritual heroes, and livo in their diviner life.

Changes of a Century.

THE Nineteenth Century has witnessed many, and very great discoveries and changes. In 1809 Fulton took out his first patent for the invention ot a steamboat.

The first steamships which made regular trips across the Atlantic Ocean were the Sirins and Great Western in 1830. The first public application to practical use of gas for illumination was made in 1802. In ISI3 the streets of London wore for the first time lighted with gas. In 1813 there was built in Waltham, Massachusetts, n mill, believed to have been the first in the world which combined all the requirements of making finished cloth from the raw cotton. In 1790 there were only 25 post offices in America, and up fo 1837 the rate of postage was 25 cents fora letter sent over4oo miles. In ISO 7 wooden clocks began to be made by machinery. This ushered in the crea of cheap clocks. About the year 1833 the first railroad of any considerable length in the United States was constructed. In 1810 the first expoiiments iv kphoto graphy were made by Daguerre. About 1840 the first express business was established. The anthracite coal business may be said to have begun in 1820. In IS3G the patent for the making of matches was inverted,

Steel pens were introdnced for uso in ISO 3.

The first successful trial of a reaper took place in 18H3. In 184G Elias Howe obtained a patent for his first sewing machine. . . Tho first successful method of making vulcanised india-rubber was patented in 1839.

la 1844 the magnetic telegraph was first brought into practical use.

Selected Poetry.

THE BAY OF SEVEN ISLANDS,

The skipper sailed out of the harbour mouth Leaving the applo-bloom of the South For tho ice of the Eastern seas. In tho flsluug schooner Breeze.

Handsome and brave and young was he, And the maidens of Newbury sighed to sco His lessening whito sail fall Under tho sea's blue wall,

Through tho Northern Gul£ and the misty

screen Of tho Isles of Mingan and Madeleine, St. Paul's and Blanc Sablon, The little Breeze sailod on, Backward and forward, along tho short Of wild and desolate Labrador, And found at last his way To the Severn Islands Bay.

The little haiulol, nestling below Great hills white with lingering snow. With its tin-roofed chapel stood Half-hid in tho dwarf sprueo wood,

Green-turfed, llowoi--sown, the lust outpost Oi Bummo uiion tho dreary coast, With its Hardens small imd spare, Sadinthefroaty air. Hnrft by whero the skipper's schooner lay, A fisherman's cottage looked nwi'.y Ovor isle and buy and behind On mountains diin-doflned. And thcro twin Bisters, fair and young, Laughed with their stranger guest, and sung In their nativo tongue the lnjsj Ot tho old I'rovcncul days. AUko they were, save the faint outline Of a scar on Hir/.ottu's forehead tine; And botli it so hefel, Loved the heretic stranger well. Kotli wero pleasant to look upon, But the heart of the skipper clave lo one ; Though less by his eye than heart Ho knew the twain apart. Despite, of alien race and creed, Well did hia wooing of Marguerite speed ; Aud the mothers wrath was vain As the sister's jealous pain. The shrill-tongued mistress her house, forbade And solemn warning was sternly said Hy tho black-robud priest, whose word As law the hamlet heard. ftnt halt by voice and halt by signs The skipper said, "A warm sun nhincs On tlie green-banked Morrimao; Wait, watch,till Iconic back. " And when you sco from my masthead Tho signal lly of a kerchief red, My boat on tho shore shall wait; Come, when the night is late." All! weighed with childhood's haunts and friends, And all that tho home sky ovcrbends, Did ever young love fail To turn the trembling scale? Under the night, on the wet se:i sands. Slowly unclasped their plighted hands; One to the cottage, hearth, And one lo his sallor'a berth. What was it tho parting lovers heard } Not leaf, nor ripplo, nor wing of bird, Hut a listener's stealthy tread On tho rock-moss crisp and dead. Ho weighed his anchor, and fished once moro liy tho black coast-lino of Labrador; And by love and the north wind driven, Sailed'back to the Islunds Seven. In the sunset's glow tho sisters twain Saw tho Hreezo come sailing in again, Said Suzotto, " Mothor dear, The heretic's sail is hero," " Go, Marguerite, to your room, and hide: Your door shall be bolted 1" tho mother criod. While Suzette, ill at ease, Watched the red sign ot the Breeze. At midnight, down to tho waiting skill' She stole in tho shadow of the cliff; And out of the Bay's mouth ran The schooner with maid and man. And all night long on a restless bed. Her prayers to tho Virgin Marguerite said; And thought ot her lover's pain Waiting for her in vain. Did he pace the sands! Did he pause to bear Tho sound of her light step drawing near 1 And, ns the slow hours passe t, Would ho doubt her faith at last? But when she saw, through the misty pane, Tho morning break on a sea of. rain, Could even her lovo avail To follow hia vanished sail? Meantime the lirccze, with favouring wind, Left the rugged Moisic hills behind, And heard from an unseen shore The foils Of Manitou roar. On tho morrow's morn, in the thick, graj weather, Thoy sat on the reoling dock together, Lover and counterfeit Of hapless Marguerite. With a lover's hand from her forehead fair lie smoothed away her jet-black hair. What was it his fond eyes met i Tho scar ot tho false Suzetto 1 Fiorcely ho shouted: " Bear away East by north for Sovcn Isles Bay 1" The maiden wept and prayed, But the ship her helm obeyed. Once more tho Bay of tho Isles they found; They heard tho boll of the chapel sound, And tho chant of tho dying sung In tho harsh, wild Indian tongue. A feeling of mystery, change and awo Was in all thoy heard and all they saw; Spoil-bound the hamlet lay Iv the hush of its lonely bay. And when they came to the cottage door, ■ The mothor rose up from her weeping sore, And with angry gestures met The scared look of Suzette. •' Hero is your daughter," tho skippor said: "Give mo the ono I love instead." But the woman sternly spako : " Go, see if the dead will wako!" Ho looked. Hor swoot face still and white And strange in tho noonday taper light, She lay on her littlo bed. With tho cross at hor foot and head, In a passion of grief the strong man bent Down tolher face and kissed it; went Back to tho waiting Breeze, Back to the mournful seas. Novcr again to tho Merrimac And Nowbury's homes that bark came back. vy hethor her fate she met On tho shores of Carraquotte. Mlscouor Tracadie, who can say ? But even yet at Seven Isles Bay ' Is told the ghostly talo Of a weird, unspoken sale. In tho pale, sad light of tho Northern Day Seen by tho blanketed Montagnais, Or eqaw, in hor small kyack, Crossing tho spectre's track. On tho deck a maiden wrings her hands; Her likeness kneels on tun gray const sands One in her wild despair, And'one in the trance of prayer. She flits beforo on earthly blast, With the rod sign fluttering from her mast, Over tho golden seas,— The ghost oi! the schooner Breeze. —I, a. Wluttier in the Atlantic.

In the Victorian ceusus no woman has subscribed herself or allowed herself to be subscribed an Atheist or a Materialist,

Do you enjoy good health?" "Yes," was the reply. '" Who doesn't ?"

A lady says a good lawn dress should wash well. Doesn't a good laundress wash well I

When the father of a large family re ceives the news that another girl-baby is born, what would he be likely to say?—A lass !



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