The murder of a missionary by the Maoris in New Zealand: savage dance of the Pai Marire Fanatics, 1865. 'The war of races which has been going on for two or three years past in several provinces of the northern not seem likely to arrive at a speedy General Cameron has failed to make any sure progress in the campaign which was to have cleared the country between Wellington and Taranaki, other districts, especially in the neighbourhood of Auckland, have been disturbed by the revolt of a large number of the Maori population, who seem to have relapsed into worse t
The murder of a missionary by the Maoris in New Zealand: savage dance of the Pai Marire Fanatics, 1865. 'The war of races which has been going on for two or three years past in several provinces of the northern not seem likely to arrive at a speedy General Cameron has failed to make any sure progress in the campaign which was to have cleared the country between Wellington and Taranaki, other districts, especially in the neighbourhood of Auckland, have been disturbed by the revolt of a large number of the Maori population, who seem to have relapsed into worse than their original hideous superstition now prevailing, which takes the name of the "Pai Marire" from the Virgin Mary, of whom they have heard from a French Catholic missionary lately amongst them, is held to sanctify the commission of any crime or by this deadly fanaticism, the natives have committed a horrible crime at victim was a missionary clergyman, the Rev. Carl Sylvius Volkner, a native of Cassel, Maoris had all taken an oath the day before to kill every minister or soldier who came were now about 800 natives on the ground, who at once marched him under the '. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.
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