MAORI ENTERTAINMENT. Imperial Affairs.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 388, 12 April 1902, Page 2

MAORI ENTERTAINMENT.

Imperial Affairs.

There was a fair attendance at the Maor * entertainment last evening, when a body of 36 natives, under the direction of Mr A. T. Ngata, gave exhibitions of the various dances and hakas performed at the recent hui at Waiomatatini. During the evening Mr Ngata gave graphic and witty descriptions of Maori customs and illustrations of Maori music. In the second part Mr Kohere, referring to the recent suggestion of the Premier’s that a Maori reserve force should be formed, said that if ever occasion arose the Maoris, as in the past, would rise to the occasion and defend the homes and families of the Europeans. (Applause.) He then gave instances of the bravery and honor of the Maori soldiers in the olden days.

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF GERMAN POLICY. The famous generalise:: the London Spectator, finds little that is reassuring in the tendency of •Anglo-German relations. “Germany,” it says, “has laid herself out to gain at our expense. She wants what we possess, sea power colonies and carrying trade, and she is prepared to light for them. Now we do not say that we must necessarily quarrel with a rival. Rivalry and . competition are often excellent stimulants to action, and we look with alarm as well as detestation upon all schemes for claiming for the British Empire any sort of monopoly, imperial or commercial. There is room for all. But it is quite clear that Germany 7 does not mean to lie satisfied with ordinary commercial rivalry. Her action is essentially aggressive. There is no sharing with "Germany. She ! must rule absolutely if at all. She means if she can to pull down the British Empire and erect on its ruins a Teutonic world-power, just as she hopes to build up on the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a European State wiiich will embrace all Germanspeaking Europe. The intense popular animosity felt in Germany towards England is not sentimental, or unreal. It is deep and genuine—or, as a German philosopher would say, positive and categorical"