No Bad Debts.

Some curiously interesting pars touching New Zealand life a few decades back are to be picked up in the files of the “Waka Maori,” a newspaper-gazette for the Maori people, published in Wellington by the Government. In the seventies the “Waka” was printed in Maori and English in parallel columns. Here is an item of the issue of January, 1876, printed on the front page under the Royal Arms:

“Notices from Correspondents.—Mita K. Ngatipara, of Raglan, Auckland, has a canoe for sale. It is sixty-six feet in length and six feet wide. He says: ‘This is an exceedingly swift-pulling canoe. When paddled by experts in handling their paddles, no other canoe could come near it. If any man, or men, or hapu, or tribe, in any part of the island should be desirous of purchasing it, it will be sold for £200, but no credit will be given.'”