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| THE MAORI MESSENGER. TE KARERE MAORI. VOL. VI.] AUCKLAND, MAY 16, 1859.AKARANA, MEI 16, 1859. [No. 9. THE SMALL POX. There is no subject on which the Govern- ment of New Zealand has evinced a more anxious solicitude than that of the preven- tion of Small Pox amongst the Native Race. With that object in view warning after warn- ing has been given, and counsel after coun- sel offered in the pages of the "Maori Mes- senger." The sweeping ravages of that loathsome disease have been described with all the ability which medical skill and zea- lous humanity could devise, and the sure, unfailing, and easy preventive has been urged to be employed by our Native brethren with the most true and affectionate concern. We need hardly repeat that that certain pre- ventive is Vaccination, and that they who desire to preserve their families from the at- tack of a disease, which, if once introduced, would carry its wide and deadly effects throughout the aboriginal inhabitants, will lose no lime in availing themselves and of submitting their wives and children to the operation of that saving and blessed vacci- nation which is so abundantly open to and so solicitously urged upon them. Even they that have been already vaccinated, if more TE MATE KOROPUTAPUTA. Kotahi te mea i tino awangawanga ai te Kawanatanga o Niu Tirani, ko te arai atu i te hoa riri nanakia nei i te mate koroputaputa kei tata mai ki nga iwi Maori. Na konei hoki i puta tonu ai a te Karere Maori kupu whakamataara i tenei wa i tenei wa. Kia hiwa e! kia hiwa I Ko te mahi huna tanga- ta a tenei nanakia whakahouhou, me tana ngau kino, korerotia katoatia atu ana ki nga hoa Maori; ko nga whakaaro a nga tohunga Rata me nga mohio ki tenei mea, whakapua- kina atu ana, tohutohungia atu ana; whakaa- turia ana tona rongoa whakaora, he mea takoto noa nei. Te take i penei ai te Pakeha, he aroha ki nga tangata Maori, he manawapa ki a ratou kei pangia e tenei mate kino rawa. Kua rongo katoa hoki nga tangata Maori, me okaoka te tangata e te Rata, na, ekore e pa- ngia e tenei mate. Heoi, ka mea atu ano hoki matou ki nga tangata Maori e pai ana kia ora ratou ko o ratou wahine ko a ratou tamariki i tenei hanga whakama taku, me kawe kia werowerohia: kapohia atu te ora ka whakahahakina arohatia atu nei; me whakaaro hoki, ki te mea ka puta mai taua nanakia ki tenei whenua, ekore e kitea te |