Salt Lake Times | 1890-09-01 | Page 3 | The New Zealander's Heaven

Th Vm Zn!aiilr' llmvxn. The New Zeulundera imntrinn that th souls of tho dead i o a pliw" beneath tho earth called Ileinga. Th Jmlh to this region of the soul Is a prectpicot lowi to the w-ihori) at th North ('ape. It i said that tho riativi who live In th ficighlxirhood can, at night, hear tho sounds enured by tho pacing of uplni through the air. It to a-common siir-stitnm siir-stitnm with them that tho lift eye of every chief ln-cow a tsr as soon a tho chief die. Hlnmwte, a i flebraU-1 New Zealand king, own atntheeym-f a valiant val-iant chief, thinking thereby to inrretw the brilliancy of bis own "eye star." Hometrnies, apparently, It was thought that there wa a reriarafo immortality for each of tho eye of th d-ad, tho ! ft ascending to heaven as n star, th right, in tho form of a spirit, di-w ending to j Iteinga. j It might li mentioned Iti thi connection connec-tion that the nfiv of th Kartdwn h Hawk, at tho tiHMtof t);ir divery, j held a cj.rifuw d medley of notion n n- j ceruitig th future lit". Tho current j fancy was that tbeaoohiof th tr chief j v,re led by a who nam denoted ! ' eyeball of the nun." to a hf" In tho ; lieavet.s, while the wrtrla of the rinrnn . V rd rtdown t" fken, a pb'eeorrivj ponditnr with tl New Z-Un hr'i , lining. Ht. I'iis Kp;i!'ii& j