STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

AUCKLAND, SATUEDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1882.

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

fAI,L EIGHTS RESERVED.]

CHAPTER XVII.

Ouu return to the Bay of Islands was cele brated with great pomp and ceremony. The canoes moved up to Kcri-keri in pro cession, many of them being adorned at prow and stern with the heads of the slaughtered Ngatipaoas, tho Ngapuhi war riors were singing their songs of triumph and were decked with triumphal ornaments, their countenances also being streaked with charcoal, and their heads and bodies with red ochre. As we nearcd the settlement the women and old men who aloiio inhabited it came out with songs to greet us. Again as wo approached the landing-place they joined in a universal chorus of " Haere-mai, haere-mai."

It was at this stage that the ferocity of tho Maori nature, even in the f emote* came out. Hongi's daughter, married tfira very promising young Ngapuhi chief who had fallen at Kauaeranga, after anxiously scan ning all the canoes for her husband, when she perceived he was absent, with a cry like a wounded boar she dashed at the captives, and seizing the sword presented by King George IVT, in England, to Hongi, cut off the heads of sixteen of the unfortunate prisoners, who laid their heads down over the side of the vessel, to receive the blow. Conceiving even this to be insufficient cdiii pany for her husband to Te Eeinga, she afterwards strangled herself that she might not be separated from him. vThia was a common custom in Maoriland, cither to kill all the slaves belonging to a deceased chief, or that some or all his wives should make away with themselves, so that the soul of the departed might not be lonely in the great, dim spirit land. -...-.vil^-"'.*■!■-'■ '» Of course there were the usual feasts and tangis when all tho warriors were safely ou land ; these I omit as only tiresome to describe, as the reader is already acquainted with- the usual course of such things, and pass on to note some facts in my own career. 1 found all my affairs just as they were left, since I had affixed a stringent tapu to every thing. Also I found my wema or reputa tion as a tohunr/a very strong, independent of the increase it had. received during the Thames campaign. I had unwittingly left outside my house a calabash which a slave rinding drank from and throw away. On being told to whom it had belonged, he instantly throw up his hands saying " Oh, I am doomed then," and fell back a corpse. This was one of the most striking instances of the force of imagination and the effect of the tapu that hod occurred in the tribe. All that a chief or a tohunga possessed was supposed to bo rendered so sacred by their use that any individual of lesser rank was exposed to the risk of death by employing what they had employed previously. Thus my mana of tapu had been so strong against the poor slave that it instantly made away with him. I did not say that I knew the man to be suffering from heart disease and that his death was simply the result of fright acting on the heart. Let people know as little of you as you can, reader. Mystery always breeds respect. It was now the season for hunting the rat, always amongst tho Maoris an under taking of some importance, requiring several people to assist in it, as not only were many traps needed but roads had to be formed with great carft as any obstacle would have ruined the success. When this happened it was a most serious affair, as it was an article of food much in request, Before the party started all joined in a karakia such as the following :— Taumaha ki runga Give thanks above Taumaha ki raro Give thanks belovv Iti ai iaku kiore Myratsqueaksfitiscaucjht) Ma te reke taumaha, tau- For thy coming: thanks, maha - thanks E taka te po Suitable night falls E taka ki tuhna Inland it falls E taka te ao Day falls E taka ki Karewa: At jCarawa. it falls I tuta ai, he kiore. What is that standing ,up ■ * It is a rat. The New Zealand , rat is considerably smaller than the imported one, but is now nearly extinct,, owing to the. persistent snaring indulged in. It was,caught in ingenious tawiti (traps), the poa (bait) used being Miro. or Kahikatca berries. This year the supply snared was very large, owing it was alleged to my having repeated a new incantation whilst they were cutting the roads for the traps. But the restless spirit of Hongi could not relish the peace we were now enjoying. He burned to be once more on the battle field, for the clash of weapons seemed his natural element. Fain would he have gone against the Aupouris at the North Cape to wipe out some imaginary stain or other, but as mv favourite wife was an Aupouri, and as she pleaded hard with mo to use my influence against such an expedition, I argued him out of it, declaring it to be contrary to^the express will of the gods.. But another raid he must Have, he said, as before he died he was determined to reign alone in the North Island as the Chief, of the Pahelias (King George IV.) did in his island. Now I had always owed a grudge against the natives of Mercury Bay1 since the affair of the back-bone, besides they were so conceited as to boast the possession of a greater tohunga than I. This must not be permitted, and to punish their in solence I instigated him to attack the Ngatiporou, who were the chief tribe in that district. Singularly enough, when his mind was turning this scheme over, two chiefs from that district, Te Kamm and Te "VVhata, both of, the Ngatitamatera tribe, arrived at. Keri-keri to persuade Hongi to attack Ngatiporou to avenge their slain Tiipunas, promising him the assistance not only of their.own tribe but also that of the Ngatiraoru and .the Ngatiawa who were jealous of the Strength of the dominant •iril>e. j Thus were thj Ngapuhis again plunged into the bustlf of preparation for another war, and one that promised to be more tedious and uncertain than that waged against the Xfatipaoa. For the Ngatiporous ■were in theiiselvcs a very strong tribe. Dcskles bein«closely allied to the Nga ti Kahiinjirunuit Tauranga, and the Kaugitani of Ahuriri in Hawke's Bay, who were celebrated for their ferocity and warlike

character. Such an expedition was entirely to Hongi's mind; the harder the better, and the more fighting in it the more enjoy able was the expedition to him. One thing I resolved was that, if I possibly could, I would avoid going to Mercury Bay, because I hoped to do » good trade in flax when everything was quiet, ako because 1 never at any time had much affection for powder and shot.

! Hongi did not stop long to consider the consequences of the proposed expedition. In a week he had assembled one thonsand men fully equipped, and departed with them to Mercury Bay, ordering two thou sand more to be levied, and to follow him. This was no light strain upon the Ngapuhi tribe, since it would demand every young man above sixteen in the tribe, but they rose to the occasion, the demand wns com plied with, and the stipulated number of men joined Hongi at Opotiki, near Tau ranga. Danger had menaced the settlement in my absence before; many of the women had died in child-birth, a very rare thing amongst the Maoris; Hongi's wives had been troubled with strange dreams of danger to their lord and master, and there was no one at hand to explain these dreams ; therefore, to my extreme satisfaction, I was permitted to rcmaiu at Kcri-kcri and pursue Jin quietness' my existence.

I was very nearly bringing myself into disgrace at this time by a return to my old habits. For months I had been dying fora "spree," and when at last a vessel was lyine in the Bay I went down, procured a small keg of rum, and brought it up with me to the kainga. In the secrecy of my own wharc I went in for a right royal boose, until I was, as the Saying is, blind drunk. Unfortunately at this time Tangiwjiare, Hongi's chief wife, had a dream she wished explained to her, and sent for mo to come. This at present I did not feel inclined to do, and told the messenger, with out delay, to go to . This was a most serious otFcnce, as the^ lady was a chief tainess in her own right, though as ugly as sin, and was followed by an angry message the following day for me to come to her at once. Keing then comparatively sober I went, and explained away tho remark of the preceding day by saying that as I was under tho influence of tin;, gods I did not know what fell from my lips. This was satisfac tory to her, anil we became again fast friends.

About this time I had .another visit from Tom Tapsell, who gave mo all the latest news from Sydney ; How colonial wool was now run after at home to such a degree that the supply was utterly unequal to the demand; how twenty-fivo men were executed at Sydney and ten at Hobart Town for bushranmng; how St. Mary's Cathedral, the first Koman Catholic Church ia Australia, was in course of erection; and, finally, how Governor. Macquarrie, who had done so much substantial good to the colony, and was regarded with such uni versal respect and esteem, was to be suc ceeded by Sir Thomas Brisbane'; also, he told me, what interested me more, that the liquor traffic was to be extended in New South Wales so that there was now liberty to distil drink in certain quantities. Tom Tapsell seemed to consider my life a perfect heaven upon earth, and was hot upon becoming a Pakeha-Maori at once, but I dissuaded him from it at present, partly because I diii not want any other pakeha to share the influence I held, and partly because I wanted to be brought in contact as little as possible with men likely to suspect what my previous history had been. Time passed on, and still no news of Hongi's return. We heaid little about his movements: save through uncertain and conflicting reports, some declaring him to be defeated, killed, and eaten by the Rangitanis at Ahuriri, in Hawke's Bay, others to be pursuing a career of conquest as brilliant, as that which ho had carried on at the Thames. Such reports kept us in a state of great anxiety, as we knew that if Hongi was killed numberless tribes would pounce on us like vultures qii their prey. But at length all such anxieties were set at rest by the return, with the usual pomp and ceremony, of the victorious Ngapuhis, who had been completely sue cesslul in their Mercury Bny expedition. Hongi had followed the same line of attack as he had adopted at Kaiiaeranga, the result being a victory in every engagement, and the capture of ub less than eight pahs, amongst these,Maraenui, beyond Opotiki, then Awatere, then Wharekahika, East Cape, .and Waiapu. I received from him after this campaign many valuable pre sents, especially two finely tattooed heads embalmed, for which in subsequent days of poverty I realised a very good sum from the captain of an English frigate.

We had the usual tangis over our dead relatives, ate our customary feasts, some times of human flesh, and engaged in the sports proper to such solemn occasions. At all of these I had to be present to take my share, always with trepidation, for I had the idea each clay would reveal to Hongi friendship I had with his wife. Some plan must be thought of to get him out of the way, and nothing in my mind could be better than to instigate him to a fresh raid upon some of the tribes with whom lie was at enmity. But this must bt> executed with extreme caution. Hongi was a man who, as the expression has it, would smell a rat very quickly, and it would not do to let him suppose I had any motive behind my advice. I therefore caused the first hint of this to come from his nephew, Ihipakijiga, whom I mes merised, and then, through the aid of second speech, caused him apparently to Urge on his uncle to an attack on the Ngatiwhatua, at Waitemata and Kaipara,' to avenge the death of Te flaharaha, slain at Pataua, on the coast near Whangarei. Then I also pretended to have had visions of the spirit of the.jlain man lamenting his unavenged death, and asking if the heart 3of the Ngapiihis had become womanish through too much peace. It was sufficient. Hongi's blood took fire at* the thought of an unavenged kinsman, and he was eager to rush at once to allay the (duct (spirit) of the departed. But 1 was anxious he should go convinced that the mission was a divine one Therefore I told him to send a messenger to Lake Mapere, a fine sheet of water about six miles long, lying at the font of the volcanic hill Pukenui, about three miles inland from the Bay, and to throw some rocks into' the yawning crevices in the mound Pataia, when a terrible rumbling would follow, and the rocks would be thrown out along with hot water and ashes. Hongi, anxious to ascertain the truth of this, went in person to perform the mission, and to his surprise everything occurred as I had predicted. I had been told of this by

some very old natives at Mawe, a native village near Pukenui, and had myself tried the experiment, therefore I could with safety enjoin Hongi to follow my example. Mapere was.said originally to have been a plain with several villages- on it, in one of which lived a chief who so far forgot him self and the action of the sacred tapu as to go out to draw water, when fUmes burst forth from tho well, ashes and stones were ejected, and boiling water gushed up which formed the present lake. This singular fact was known only*1 to a very few tohungas, iind it was communicated by them to me as a very groat favour. It proved very con venient as a means of extending my in fluence with HoDgi, since he now believed that there was nothing I could not foresee or do. He therefore returned to Keri-keri and prepared to engage in the expedition against the Ngatiwhatana conceiving that he was acting under tho express command of Heaven.

/To be continued.)

Better Thoughts for Quiet Moments.

Richard Cobdkjj, speaking once from the noble honour of his own upright soul, asked, thinking of a famous, successful, and unscrupulous statesmen, "How will it bo with him when all is retrospect ?" This is the great touchstone of life; how it looks when regarded through all its long perspec tive at a time when its chief actor lias little or no power to add to or improve the picture. Do not be stern and Bileut iv your own house, and remarkable for your sociability elsewhere.

One crack in the lantern may let in the wind to blow out the light; one leak unstopped will sink the ship and drown all on board ; one unguarded point will cause ruin of character.

Who has not mastered himself, by whom can he not be overcome ?

In all thy quarrels leave open the door of reconciliation.

There is no time in a man's life when he is so great as when he cheerfully bows to tlie necessity ot his position, and makes the best of it.

Iv honestly making the best of things and of people we not only increase the hap piness of the world, but also strengthen and enhance the good that is in it. The easiest thing in the world is to sec a fault in another man and a virtue iv your self.

Spend your time in nothing which you mignt not safely and properly bo found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to help each other. From the time that the mother binds the child's head till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual aid; ail, therefore, that need aid have a right tp ask it from their fellow mortals; none who hold the power of granting aid can refuse it without guilt.— Sir Walter Scott. Order is the Jsanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. SCOTCH PROVERBS. Ye're maister o 1 ycr am words; but, once stioken, yer words may maister you. * Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lav. There was ne'er oneuch whar naething was left.

Be a frien' to yourscl' and sao will ithers. Better be alanc than in ill company. Do tho likeliest, an' God will do Hie best. Every man kens best whar his ftin shoe binds him.

Fear God an' keep out o' debt. Fulcs make feasts, an' wise men eat them.

"An'wise men mak proverbs, an' f tiles repeat them."' Fair words ne'er brake a bane, foul words a#y.

Celebrated Spendthrifts.

Cowper felt the truth of his own assertion, " that he never knew a poet who was not thriftless," for, he too, hud not the power to keep out of debt, and found it an easy matter to lose quick sightof his own income. Many are tho instances of men of genius who have lived far beyond their means, and died burdened by debts innumerable. To. bo temperato and moderate in the mat ter of spending was good in theory but difficult to put into, practice; hence the lives of many celebrated in literature were but a long, tiresome struggle against de pressing anxieties, born of their own care lc'S habita of improvidence. " 0 rare Ben Johnson " was always more or less in need of pecuniary assistance from his friends, for he loved to indulge in pleasure and en joyed the social cheer of the "Mermaid Tavern" only too well. Samuel.Butler, whose fame is forefver linked with " Hudi bras," and whoso burlesque satirical poem was once the popular book of the day, came to a miserable end, in an obscure lodging house, perishing of starvation. Fielding, of "Tom Jones " fame,, was a gay, rollick ing 'fellow, who took on the vices left by his father, and' commence:! life with poor health and most extravagant habits. He was never wholly free from pecuniary em barrassments. Dick Steele hardly knew what it was to be iiee of debt. His life was a checkered career—and his one dissi pation followed another, till doing wrong arid repenting of his many indiscretions became a daily part of his experience. He would forego no luxury as long as he could find any one to trust him. Worry did not lie heavily on his mind, however. He could cast, "it easily osid, and look for the luck always looming up just a little way ahead.

Oliver Goldsmith was never beyond the need of being dunned—once free of debt, he felt an insane desire to be in again, and earned enough^ but had no power to keep it; When lie was figuring at Boswell's dinner in Old Bond street in the satteen suit lined with satin and the bloom coloured breeches, his tailor was out of pocket, and the clothes he felt such a pride in were not settled for at the close of his checkered careen He could not practise the virtue of self-denial, and had not the will to say no to any one who begged a favour at his hands. Lord Byron, on coming of age, was beset with money difficulties—and how much w.orry to a sensitive nature, having one's door continually besieged by creditors! The " first year of Ins mairiage his house was nine times in the possession of bailiffs." Steele and Sheridan were constituted miich alike, and debts did not weigh heavily on their spirits. It is said that "whenenter , taining company they put the bailiffs who

were in possession in livery and made theml wait on the table, passing them off as ser vants." Robert Burns was very sensitive regarding debts. To pay for some clothes he had been trusted for, he wrote to the pub lisher of his songs for the loan of five pounds, promising full value in "song genius," Laniartine, who so devotedly suribblcd verses to his faVOurito animals, was freauently at war with his own peace of mmci. His expenditures were something enormous, and fortunes dwindled away in the shortest space of time whon entrusted to his keep ing. Daniel Webster was careless and improvident in his expenditures, and was wont to lay little stress on money obliga tions. He would borrow, and repay if con venient ; but felt no hesitancy in running, into debt, and lived far beyond his means. Johnson wrote his shadow, Boswcll, to con sider debt something beyond an inconveni ence, for a great calamity it usually proved1 to be. Numerous instances could be cited of celebrated men who lacked the practical prudence, the good and careful forethought that wisely provideth for the morrow. They never learned the lesson of self-denial, that common, practical virtue that saves a world of anxiety.

THE FARM MORTGAGE.

ICarloton's "Tramp" tells the whole, pathetic story.] We worked through spring and winter, through summer and through fall, But that mortgage worked the hardest and the steadiest or ub all; It worked on nights and Sundays, it worked each holiday; It settled down among us, and it never went itway. Whatever wo kept from it seemed almost as bad as theft; It wutched us ovory minute, and it ruled U3 right and left. The rust and blight were with us sometimes, and sometimes not; Tho dark-browed scowling mortgage was for ever on tho spot. The weevil and tho cut-worm they went as woli as came; Tho mortgago staid forever, eating hearty all tho name. It nailed up evei-y window, stood guard ut every door, And happiness and sunshine mado their home with us no more. Tiil with failing crops and sickness we got stalled upon tho grade, And tliore came a dark day on us whon the intorest wasn't paid; And there came a sharp foreclosure, and I kind o' lost my hold, And grew weary and discouraged, and the form was cheaply Bold. Tho children loft and scattored, when they hardly yet wero grown; My wife sues pined un perished, an' I found myself alone. What she died of was a "mystery," an' the doctors never knew; Hut I knew she died of mortgage— just as well's I wanted to. If to truce a hidden sorrow wore within the doctor's art, They'd tin' found a mortgage lying on that woman's broken heart.

I am helpless on' forsaken, I am childless an1 alone; I haven't a singlo dollar tliat its fair to call my own; My old ago knows no comfort, my heart is scant of chcor; The children they run from me as soon as I comoncar; Tho women shrink and tremble—thoir alms are foar- bestowed; The dogs howl curses at me, and hunt me down the road. My homo is whero night finds mo; my friends are few and cold; Oh, littlo is thero in this world for one who's poor and old!. But I'm wealthy in experience, all put up in good Advice, To take or not to take it, with no difference in tho price; Yon may have it, an' thrive on it, or run round it as you please, But. I generally glvo it wrapped up in some such words as theso: Worm or beetle, drought or tempest, on a farmers land may fall. But for first-class ruination, trust a mortgage 'gainst them all. —Farmer's Friend.

Puffing an Enterprise.

WHAT IT COST A PAIUSIAN NEWSPAPER. The Paris Nineteenth Century, in a recent issue, says :—

A certain M. Terry, a Paris bourgeois, read one day in his newspaper an article recommending an investment in Barcelona. The affair was a magnificent one, and the dividends were certain. The good man was dazzled. He had saved up about 12,000 francs, which he put in the specula tion, and lost his money with many other persons. Enraged, ho sued the journal to recover from it the 12,000 francs he had sunk, arguing 'in this wise: If you, journalist, had not recommended this affair, I should not have invested my money in it. You answered for it and it is for you to in demnify me. So plea»e hand over my 12,000 francs. Would you believe i$ ? The Civil Court has adopted that view, and has condemned the journal to restore to the disappointed dupe his money. The judg ment is based on the consideration that the editor should have first made inquiries into the prospects of the undertaking it patronized before recommending it, and not have deceived the unfortunate M. Terry, who was so simple as to believe in its inflated puffs. Notice of appeal against the judgment has been given, but if the verdict is confirmed the journal will be in a queer position, for all the shareholders who lost their money will come down upon it. If the capital was only twenty-five millions, which is nothing in undertakings of the kind, they will divide the assets of the journals among them, unless^ several journals recommended the affair in ques tion, in which case the dupes wonld have a right to sue them one after the other and share the spoils. An old French proverb says: " Les conseilleurs nc sont pas les payeurs." We must, .therefore, suppose that the proverb is wrong. People win now have to pay if they make a mistake in, : giving bad advice. Wo may remark that if by chance M. Terry had gained IOO.OOOfr in the affair indicated and recommended he would not have propospd to the journal ta share the profits, hut wo»ld have kept them. all to himself. Why, then, should he claim from it whal he lost ?

Inexpressible woo: " Are yon feeling very ill ?" a«ked the pbysieian ; " let me see your tougue, please." "It's of no use.Doc tor," replied the poor patient; "no toi quo can tell how bad I feei," " A good husband manes a good wife,1 says a philosopher, but he stops there and don't say what he makes her do. Probably build the lire in the morning, and sit up late for him at night. A drinking man was told by his phy. sicianto hold his breath while he. counted his pulse, but he could'ot do it,' Hia breath waa too strong for him.



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