Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-20
Iug MAORIEs.
BELiEF THAT A OSCE GREAT RACE n
DOOMED TO EXTINCTION.


DOOMED 10 EXTINCTION.
The barriers reared by tho Maorlss Of
New Zealand against tue outside wOfl1
arc NJ last prualfaioI. IL will sufpriseall
who know thsir strange story, says the
Now YORK sun, 10 hear the nows that
MI Seldom, tho premier OF Sew Zsa.
land, brought 10 Wellington month
ago. He bad been travelling through
the King county, which Tor many
yUars whi forbidden ground to all white
men. Chief aitrr cnivf told him that
hereafter there would DO for them only
the law Of tho queen Of England.
Tawhiao, the Maori king, alsl wrote,
askiEg for an interview and saying
that ho wished 10 follow the example
Of the chlols; No the king anu the most
Important mon In the Dig Maori dif-
trlcI have been invited b visit Well
ington during the next session Of
parliament.
Forty ysars ago, when the Ma0ris
drew the Aukiti, OF sacred boundary
line, this English Ia New ZEALAND were
not dsalrous T. incur the opposition Of
over 5000 natives. Exclusive posses.
sion Of their lands hal already been
promised 10 the tribes, and the EurUp.
cans made no protest when the natives
drew their boundary line around n
large part Of this reserve, named II the
King country, declared that the white
men should make no roads within tue
area, and forbade them, under penalty
OF death, ~ enter the lane.
Until quite recently the Maorls con-
Quoted themselves NJ they pleased In
the King cluatry. Eleven years
ago this large district In the North
Island had not been surveyed, IT.
remarkable geographical aud go0log.
ical features were nlmost unknown,
and the maps Of Il were merely out.
lines, Then tho Eu2lithman Kerry.
Nichols was bold enough 10 enter the
country In spite Of the prohibition Of
the Maori king. After Journey NJ
600 miles, during which he collected a
great deal OF fresh information, he re-
turned uuscathed. After this the gov
ernmont secured permission from the
native chiefs u survey route for a
railroad through the King country.
Maoria are widely rcattrtol over the
North island but ioI mluy years thou
sands u the natives have confined
themselves 10 the region from which
they have wholly excluded the white
race that has pressed closely around
tho forbidden area. 10 IL not until this
late day, when the white population Of
New Zealand numbers ab.ut 100, 1000
souls, when Il Is NO longer possible Tor
any Of tho native tribes % malntaia
the role OF neutrality-suspicious., that the
proud Maoris have ~ last bowel 10
their inevitable fate OF complete sub.
lection ~ the will Of tho white con.
queTorf.
We are inclined to think, says the
sun, that the lStptt phase Ul
tho Maori question will only
hasten their determination. The
hnelt specimens VI the POlynesiau
race, they, like all ,heis kiGsmen
scattered over the Pacirc, are hasten.
ing on tue way toward iota. extinction.
All OF them, outside tho King county,
arc uominnlly converts ~ Chtistianity
and have adopted many u tue ways OF
Caucasian civilization. Those whu
have been influenced by contact win
the white newcomers have most rapids
~ diminished Ia numbers, aud now
tue last stronghold of the Oh MAORI,
viii before long be- poTmcatud by tbs
Influence oi civilization, whloh aeesJ
to have upon the haplsss P1lynesiGnI
the effect OF a poisonous glmOsg here Ia
which they cannot live.