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Show New Zealand Pageant Lesson. The pageant has apparently lakera its place in the educational methods: of New Zealand, judging by the successful suc-cessful enactment of the battle of Oraku on the very ground where Itewi. Maniapoto hurled bis defiance at tho-l'akeha, tho-l'akeha, or while men; Ka whawhal. tonu niatoul! ('e will light on forever and ever.) Dressed to represent the Maori-tribesmen, Maori-tribesmen, school children from Te-Awainutu Te-Awainutu bravely defended the native-I'a, native-I'a, until the white troops, also young-New young-New Zealanders, drove them away in. rout. Iiefore the charging troops could reach the spot where their fireball fire-ball mown down the "Maoris," Hie-latter Hie-latter introduced an unrehearsed effect by jumping to their feet and fleeing-after fleeing-after their comrades. |