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which was rolled against the defences But the Maoris would again skip away. The Maoris hated having to start again at a new pa; they said: “Why not have a fight?” then again he knew an early missionary who was held up whilst riding through some scrub. Just previously he had met an ammunition waggon with a small escort. He asked the Maoris if they had seen anybody pass and they had replied, Yes, an ammunition waggon.” .Asked why they had not captured it they had said that they had not done so because it thev had stopped it there would haye been no fighting next day ! In a case of intertribal war an old chief had called out to the younger chief on the other side that he needed water This the young chief had taken up to him but as there was a young lady on the scene, no further fightmgjiad followed! . , In -conclusion, the speaker dwelt, upon'the sensitiveness of . the Maori and the: Maori' idea of humor, grnng instances, and remarking that, he had personally known; only one Maop whq saw in the : same light what to the pakehas were funny incidents.