MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume 9, 23 October 1878, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Chronicle thin ereninj? Riven tho following account of the Maori pah nom* tho centre of tho city ;— ' Tn a narrow ctre/'t, a fi«w ynrrls in length, aro some ♦ wonty den«. nvcrorowded with Maoris, lialficiiHtofl, vugruntu, bovu, prontihUes, nnd the ncum ot nocictioß. Thorn crime and drunkcnnoHS breed, and fo«tivo orgies f»fn mont di^raccf'ul charnctcr Inko place. At night the dens arc filled with a mixturo ofiipny Maoris, pupcrinut'cd old projx <it.ut.eH, nnd nqutilling children. Tho huts flro filthy in the oxtromo, overrun with vorm'm, nnd rcoKing with various flbomi* nution^. Ilpro drunken mon aro decoyed nnd robbed ; horo nil tho nbominutions of Horlom nnd Gommorrnh nro perpetrated It i« no uncommon thins; for twenty Anov'm nnd a dozen boirifcH, who onco wore white women, but whon» yiHrtßOs would rather proclaim thorn denizens of the infernal regions lot looao to prowl nboul, to asflombio and induluo in or^ioo, in which Htnlo b«or, foul tobacco f«mon! nnd an uiiwliok-HOtno atraoiiplioro coinbino in moro dinj{U«ting proportion! than in tho lowest part of nny gin lane of'L-uidon not'^riciy. The police havo done nil in t hoit* power (o dcunsofclioflodon*, but until i ho house* aro rnznd, arid tho locality swept of its abominations, all efforts to eradicato existing evils must be fruitlosg, it \h to thofle dons thut tho lileo of Jlntirioli Mnndoza, Chrintina Wilson, nnd other minomblo objects who an* brought up timo oTor f,imo lor vngrnnov, roturn imniediately they aro loosod Irom prison. Tho plnco ot night* is filled with tho scum ol society, who know no other rosort. Hero, if they can bring v stiok of tobacco, a piut of bior, or better

still, t drunken uniW, thoy aro rvor j welcome, and. shutting thoir doom, mnv doty tho auihority of (ho police. On« of those oribs i« kn^wn aa tho " lin CW," It i« nbout tho dimmaiomi of n Inrgo-flizud packing ot\*o, which tradition Rnvs it really in. On one occasion tho police discovered in thin no lo«« than flix white wom^n nnd a Maori man— tho owner of tho property— and it wus with difficulty thnfc tho case wns unpacked of ifq living contents. At night, orowds of lad* aro attrnotod to tho «ren<\ *ho attentively Union to and seem to flnjoy I tho ribaldry, and. amokinß the stumpfmis of cigars, thoy enrse and BWt'ftr flftz-r tho most approved fashion. I RsipoctinK a late carouse of tho WhnlraJ fnno and Shortland Native, the Thnmos Stnr cays j ' It i« roughly •stimatod that three hold* mold befwoon 800 nnd 400 bottles «>f liquor. Ono homo ioM 70 bottle* of rum nlone, that liquor bom* in great demand, and was Bold us fast m it could be bottled. At nbout four o'clock in the «f>«ri»oftn /tlmcot ovory adult raalo nnd fomalo of tho coloured raoo bad a bottle of waipiro, and to celebrate tho happy event the chiefs decided to have a good war-dance, which theraupon eventuated, tho performer* l>rAndi.ihing thi»ir bottler like morefl. As might be supposed, a number of bottlen wore smash' d ; but, an a rule, almost all the liquor went down th# right road.' At tho flnnunl dinnor of tho Pakur«ng» Hunt Club the tonflt of 'TheClorgy* wn* proposed and drunk with mor« Mnn ordinary cnrdinlity, and tho Hoy. fliither Giordan responded to tho tonst in a capital ppooch, fniggestivo of hta being one of 'lie niHseulii> < Christain school. Ho snid in Ireland ho hud followod tho harea, nnd ns lime changed, lip became n ohnpnin in tho British army m India, and he was then proud to bo asfloeiatod with brave mon. Ho had nlflo^bocn with tho Melbourne Kncini; Club and the Werribpo Tark—in fuel, he wbh in Uio mulflt ftf them, and hero he wns now in tho midst of them, between Ellerslic and Pnkuranga, when only two yenrs from tho Mauritius, nnd ntill he found himcelf ftmofi«»k bravo men, and that was tho reason why ho responded to tho toust. (Ohcen.) For BoDio time ho had clusod tho hares in Ireland, nnd afterwords, not without Borne trepidation, the «if?er» in India. Ho lind been stirred by footings of anxiaty on thrpp oponftions. nnd ho felt reminded of happier timoa when amongst them that d»y. Ho dooirod to exprosi his tbanki to tho Mnstor of tho Hunt and the membari of tho Club, who hnd invited him to enjoy this uniquo treat, in which ho fait gron't plonwuro in participating. (Loud ol)#01'fl.)