[CONTENTS]
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CONTENTS.
ADAMSON, THOMAS... 368
AUSTIN, SERGEANT... 76
ATKINSON, HON. MAJOR 45-46
BALLANCE, HON. J.... 325-326
BALNEAVIS, COL.... 283
BENNETT, CAPT.... 313
BIDDLE, BENJ.... 258
BIGGS, MAJOR... 399-400
BLACK, SOLOMON... 258
BOWER, CAPT.... 475
BRASSEY, MAJOR... 241-242
BROUGHTON, MR. C. W. 327-330
BROWN, CAPT. R....... 47-48
BROWNE, GOVERNOR GORE 35-42
BROWN, MAJOR... 51-53
BRYCE, CAPT.... 307-316
BULLER, SIR WALTER L. 345-346
BUTLER AND HASSARD... 54
CAMERON, GENERAL... 459-460
CARKEEK, SERGEANT... 224
CHAPLAINS, 3 MILITARY 199-208
CHUTE, GENERAL... 245
CORBETT, CAPT.... 227
CRAPP, CAPT....... 291
DOUGLAS, SIR R.... 180
FEATHERSTON, DR.... 443-444
FRASER, LIEUT.-COL..... 395
GASCOIGNE, MAJOR... 295-298
GIBBS, DR....... 465-466
GORING, MAJOR... 359-360
GORTON, COL.... 237
GRACE, DR....... 473
GREY, SIR GEORGE, K.C.B. 19-32
GUDGEON, MAJOR... 353-355
GUDGEON, LIEUT.... 481-482
HAMLIN, MR. E.... 102
HANDLEY, CAPT.... 284
HAPE, PAORA... 246
HARDINGTON, CAPT.... 301-302
HAULTAIN, HON. COL.... 65-66
HEAPHY, MAJOR... 125-126
HEWITT, MR....... 428
HILL, SERGEANT... 476
HIRTZEL, LIEUT.... 215-216
HUNTER, LIEUT. W.... 391-392
HUNTER, MAJOR... 261-262
HERFORD, MAJOR... 84
HUTCHINSON, ENSIGN.. 165-166
HUTTON, CAPT. H.... 219-220
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR 557-587
JACKSON, MAJOR... 105-110
KATENE, WIREMU... 153-154
KAWEPO, RENATA... 333-334
KEMP, MAJOR... 381-384
KENNY, THE HON. COL. 193-194
KEPA, HENARE... 356
KINGI, GENERAL METE 363-364
LINGARD, TROOPER... 435
LIVINGSTONE, MR.... 118
LLOYD, CAPT...... 412
LOGAN, COL....... 396
LOMAX, CAPT.... 349-350
LUSK, MAJOR...... 113-117
LYON, COL....... 95-96
MACE, CAPT....... 471-472
MAIR, CAPT....... 223-224
MAIR, MAJOR...... 129-134
MALING, SERGT. MAJOR 338
MAORI HISTORY... 483-556
McDONNELL, CAPT. W. 257
McDONNELL, LIEUT.-COL. 183-186
McGREGOR, MR. J.... 424
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MEDALLISTS, LIST OF... Addenda
MERCER, CAPT.... 99-101
MESSENGER, CAPT.... 87-92
MORRISON, CAPT.... 57-58
NEILL, MAJOR... 69-76
NEWALL, MAJOR... 189-190
NEWLAND, CAPT.... 411
NIXON, LIEUT.-COL.... 157-158
NOAKE, MAJOR... 341-342
NORTHCROFT, CAPT.... 147-152
O'CALLAGHAN, LIEUT.... 431-432
OFFICERS & MEN KILLED... Addenda
PERCY, CAPT....... 378
PIERCY, MICHAEL... 374
PITT, MAJOR C. DEAN... 211
PORTER, MAJOR... 419-420
PREECE, CAPT.... 427
RICHARDSON, MAJOR... 451-452
RICHMOND, HON. J. C.... 139-144
ROBERTS, LIEUT.-COL........ 161-162
RODRIQUEZ, TROOPER A.... 42
ROLLAND, FATHER... 455-456
ROOKES, COL.... 169-172
ROWAN, SUB-INSPECTOR... 469
ROPATA, MAJOR... 403-404
ROSS, CAPT. A.... 377
ROSS, CAPT. F.... 407-408
SCANNELL, INSPECTOR...... 447-448
SELWYN, BISHOP... 423
SHANAGHAN, PRIVATE...... 439-440
SHORTT, TROOPER... 312
SHEPHERD, SERGEANT... 82-83
SMITH, CORNET... 238
SPEEDY, MAJOR... 121-122
STANDISH, LIEUT.... 337
STAPP, LIEUT.-COL.... 61
ST. GEORGE, CAPT.... 228
ST. JOHN, LIEUT.-COL....... 463
TALES OF THE MAORI...... 588-620
TAMEHANA... 371-373
THOMAS, CAPT.... 265-280
TE POKIHA TARANUI... 35-136
TE PUIA... 254
TUKE, CAPT. E.... 415-416
TUKE, MAJOR...... 287-288
TUKINO, THE CHIEF... 303-304
TURNER, CAPT.... 319-322
TURNER, MAJOR... 467
VOLUNTEERS, THE... 387-388
VON TEMPSKY, MAJOR...... 231-234
WALKER, DR.... 367
WADDEL, CAPT.... 436
WEBBER, ASSIST.-SURGEON... 479
WESTRUPP, MAJOR... 292
WHITE, JOHN, R.M....... 79-81
WHITMORE, SIR GEO....... 249-254
WILKINSON, MR. G.T.... 197-198
WILSON, CAPT.... 175-179
WILLIAMS, BISHOP... 62
WINIATA... 212
PLANS, VIEWS, ETC.
Turu Turu Mokai... ... ... Frontispiece
Plan of Orakau Pa... ... ... facing p. 101
Plan of Operations at Ngatapa ... ... facing p. 108
Parihaka, View of...... ... ... facing p. 139
The Fight at Rangiaohia... ... facing p. 176
Ngatapa, from the East... ... ... facing p. 252
Officers Armed Constabulary ... ... p. 336
Major Pitt's Column at Parihaka ... ... ... p 386
Plan of Taurangaika Pa... ... ... ... p. 621
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INTRODUCTION.
TRADITION tells us that the Maori race has not occupied New Zealand more than five hundred years. They describe themselves as a race that came to these islands at different periods in canoes from the north east, landing first in the neighbourhood of Auckland, whence they have gradually spread throughout the length and breadth of the land. Both mentally and physically they are a fine and noble race; but although interested writers have brought conspicuously forward their best qualities, nothing can be said of them that is not equally applicable to many other savage tribes.
No one can doubt the mental capacity of the Maori, and had it been possible to educate them and inculcate habits of sustained industry, they might by this time have altogether cast aside their savage habits and associations. It is true the missionaries have effected much good, but the unfortunate divisions amongst ourselves have not only prevented the gradually-awakening mind of the Maori from receiving fixed and decided principles, but have nearly rendered it impossible to convert any heathen nation to Christianity.
The Maori, like most of the primitive races, possesses an ardent love for his fatherland, and, startled at the gradual increase of the white population, he conceived the idea of preventing any more territory from passing under British rule; and from feelings of jealousy at the success of the Anglo-Saxon in the tillage of the land, the tribes combined to check our progress. Had they been better instructed in the facts of history, they would have understood how impossible it was to stay the progress of civilisation; and that the only way left to savage nations of escaping the doom of extinction and living in enjoyment, is by floating with the current instead of battling against it.
Perhaps the truest description of Maori character ever written was given by Dr. Thomson in his work on New Zealand. He says: "The New Zealanders have the minds of children and the passions of men. They respect ancient laws and customs, but are ready to embrace new opinions given out by men in authority. So constituted are their minds that it is impossible to decide how certain circumstances will affect them. Futurity is seldom looked into, although, like all mankind, they long for what is unknown, and regret what is lost.
"Fondness for novelty is a passion, but it is almost impossible to excite wonder. Vanity, arrogance, and independence are universal, but they are more vain than proud. In all their actions they are alive to their own interest and in seeking this, are not overburdened with conscientiousness.
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"A New Zealander could not brook in word or deed an insult when witnessed by others. Wounded vanity caused much strife and cruelty, and cannibalism was occasionally produced by love of notoriety. They value life, but die with indifference when death is inevitable. They have little benevolence towards others; long absent friends are greeted with a profusion of tears, but as with children this grief is destitute of impression.
"Gratitude is unknown, no word expressive of this feeling being found in their language. Theft is rare amongst them, revenge being their strongest passion, and this feeling is kept alive for generations.
"They are jealous of each other, and love to excite terror. When excited they derive pleasure from cruelty and bloodshed. Tried by the European standard their conversations are sensual and their ideas unclean. Secrets are kept with difficulty. Of their deeds they are boastful. They accost their equals without levity, and their superiors without awe; and it is reckoned disgraceful to give way to anger. Cheerfulness more than laughter predominates.
"They are liberal in giving presents, but presents are merely modes of trade, as returns are always expected. They possess a great flow of words, and are fond of eloquence and oratory. They are dirty and indolent; strong against the weak, but weak against the strong. When mastered, either physically or mentally, they become as manageable as children; but this power must be exerted in the right way, for, like their own forest supple-jack, they are more easily overcome by gentle and skilful management, than by ill-directed force."
The Maoris appear to be a very mixed race, many being possessed of such strong Jewish features that one could easily imagine the Lost Tribes had visited New Zealand in times past--not to mention the woolly, the curly, and the straight-haired generations amongst them.
But I myself was once asked by an Irishman the nationality of my own children, and for the moment was so puzzled that without answering his question I referred it back to him, observing that my father was a Suffolk man, my mother a Dorsetshire lady, and being myself born in Hampshire, I was purely English. But I married the daughter of a Capt. Johnson, a Highlander by birth, and whose mother was a French lady, while my wife herself was born on board her father's vessel as she lay in the Bay of Naples.
"Now," said I, "what are they?" He mused for awhile, and exclaimed, "They are everything but Irish."
And so it is; as the world moves on, the intermarriages will bring us so closely allied with other nations that a few centuries hence we shall be so nearly related to each other as to make our quarrels family quarrels, and our wars civil wars.
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