HE PANUITANGA TENA KIA KITE KOUTOU. "TIHE MAURI-ORA." NAMA, 6. PAKOWHAI, PARAIRE, MAEHE 26, 1875. PUKAPUKA, 2. NOTICES AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH OF MARCH 4TH SAYS :— Very few people will be found who have the hardi- hood to maintain that the representation of the Native race in either branch of the Legislature is of a satis- factory character. Its initiation was an error. It was considered a concession instead of a right to allow representatives of the Native race a place on the benches of our Colonial Parliament, and many of our fellow colonists still consider the acknowledgement of the right a proceeding both unnecessary and unwise. With, such people, of course, neither the Press nor reason had anything whatever to do. We cannot at one moment declare all the aboriginal population to be British, subjects, and the next deny them the rights to which, they are entitled both by right and treaty. It is often urged that from their ignorance and recent reclamation from barbarism, they are unfit to exercise the power to vote; but the same may be said with, regard to ignorance in the case of many of our agricultural population in the Mother Country, whose power of vision are far more densely clouded than most of the dusky race with whom we daily come in contact. It is highly pro- bable, ere another general election takes place, that an attempt will be made to redistribute the seats on a more fair and equitable basis. The inequality in the present distribution is very remarkable. Two instances will suffice, viz., the Thames and Taranaki. In the first mentioned instance, 20,000 people are represented by Mr. Chas. O'Neill; in the second HE KUPU WHAKAATU KI NGA HOA TUHI MAI.

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E KI ANA TE TERAKARAWHI o TE 4 o MAEHE :— He tokoiti nga tangata i kitea, tena e kii; i tika rawa te whakaurunga o te iwi Maori ki nga peka e rua o te Paremata. Ko te pooti i he, i maharatia, he arai te mea tika, kia tukua he Mema o te iwi Maori hei noho i nga tuuru o to tatou Paremata. A he toko- maha o tatou hoa i te Motu e whakaaro ana ano, kihai i tika te whakaaetanga o te haerenga, kaore i whai taunga, kihai hoki i tika ki enei tu tangata, kihai ano ia te Perehi raua ko Whakaaro i mea i taua mea. E kore matou e whakapuaki i te Minita kotahi, no te taha Pakeha anake te iwi Maori katea, a, tetahi, ka whakakorea kia ratou nga tika e tika nei kia tau kia ratou, i runga i te tika raua ko te Tiriti. Kua maha nga tohenga, na o ratou kuare ki nga mahi o mua, kaore ratou e tika te mahi i te kaha mo te pooti. Otira, ko taua tu korero e ahu nei mo te kuaretanga, e penei ana ano o tatou iwi i te Whenua o o tatou matua, ko o ratou kaha ki te whakakite, e nui atu ana te pouri i ta etahi o tenei iwi, e korerorero nei tatou i nga ra katoa. A, e tino tika ana ano ia, a, a te wa e tu ai tetahi pooti, me whakamatau kia wehewehea nga nohoanga, kia noho i runga i te tika, ko te toko- mahatanga i roto i tenei wehewehenga, e tau ana hei korerotanga, ko enei e rua, ko te Teemu raua ko Ta- ranaki. E kiia ara,- e 20,000 mano nga tangata, to ratou Mema ko Niira : I te tuarua e 6000 nga tangata hei titiro i o ratou Itareti, ko Atikihana, ko Karingi- tana, me te Kere, kei te nuinga o te tangata me te taonga te Maoritanga mo nga Mema, otiia ki enei