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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 511, 27 September 1890, Page 3

One of tbelpassengers writes to the Dunedin Globe saying that the stewards seemed to be in league with the Unionists, and were trying their level beet to ruin the company by break, ing crockery and lamps. He says the s'ewardess was the beat man in that department, The nature of boycotting was being explained to a native. Native— 1 Ah I but suppose, he sell cheap.* European— l No matter if he even give things away, you don’t take them, because people say, No good—bad man—boycott.’ Native (breaking into a laugh, the idea of the 1 pokote 1 having entered his thick cranium at last)— 1 AU the same as tapu, Maori Chief hold up three fingers over common Maori's kumera crop, •ay tapu he want it all himself. All the same aa Maori Chief climb to top of mountain, hold up three fingers, and say tapu to ten thousand acres, nobody dispute it for fear * Taipo ' (the evil one) catch him. Ah, ah, pokote all same as tapu, holds up three fingers, and say no pakeha work any more pokote, and if any man begin to work tho devil fly away with him, ha I ha! good tapu and pokote all same ; he I he ! ho I’