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Updated: July 17, 2025
He was the discoverer, I suppose, now I come to think of it, else the place would have been already named. Maybe the scene reminded the old cannibal of the home of his childhood. Pahiatua was not the home of my god; and it rained for five weeks. And, ever and anon, he returned to one, a hard-case from the West Coast, called 'The Flour of Wheat', and his cousin, and his mate, Dinny Murphy, dead.
The speaker is an old chief who died in the Wairarapa district between Eketahuna and Pahiatua in 1850. The old man thus described to his sons his search for the new light of which he had heard: "You well know that I have from time to time brought you much riches. I used to bring you muskets, hatchets, and blankets, but I afterwards heard of the new riches called Faith.
"You don't call this grand country!" exclaimed the other passenger, who claimed to be, and looked like, a commercial traveller, and might have been a professional spieler quite possibly both. "Why, it's about the poorest country in New Zealand! You ought to see some of the country in the North Island Wairarapa and Napier districts, round about Pahiatua. I call this damn poor country."
"Can you tell me if there is any place in this neighbourhood where I could get accommodation for myself and my servant for a day or two?" asked Steelman presently. "I should very much like to break my journey here." "Well, no," said the boss. "I can't say I do I don't know of any place nearer than Pahiatua, and that's seven miles from here."
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