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The following is a translation :— 
g a formless fear and ques 
s indeed you, O cherished one! Who would have thought that 
you would go, O Rangi! Wearily inclines the body as, within Puhirangi, I 
look forth on Hine-moana surging restlessly afar. But now you have gone, 
borne on the ocean-stream to far Tawhiti-nui, to Tawhiti-pamamao, to Te 
Hono-i-wairua on Irihia. are on, and carefully enter Hawaiki-rangi 
in your hand the toi huarewa, the gyrating way by which Tane ascended to 
Tikitiki-o-rangi, that you may enter within Te Rauroha, that you may be 
welcomed by celestial maids within Rangi-atea. Then shall all remembrance 
of this world cease, O maid ! 
In how short a time may an ancient race be obliterated! In the 
Wellington Independent of the 22nd August, 1846, appeared the following: 
“Six large canoes, manned by about sixty natives, entered the harbour 
The late Mr. Travers, in 1873, stated that he had seen a family of cave- 
dwelling Maori living near Seatoun. There were six or seven of them, and 
they seem to have utilized the cave as a summer residence. This cave 
is said to be less than a mile from the pilot-station. 
Seatoun, it is said, was named after a place in Forfarshire that belonged 
to the Crawford family. The late Mr. J. C. Crawford changed the name of 
the peninsula in 1872, dropping the old name of Watt’s Peninsula and 
adopting that of Miramar. Mr. James Watt, after whom it was named, 
landed some cattle on the peninsula in the early days of the settlement, 
but is said to have had no further connection with it. In E. J. Wakefield’s 
Handbook for New Zealand, published in 1848, we read that two cattle 
farms had been established on Watt’s Peninsula—one called “ Glendavar, ds 
at the north end of the lake; the other, Tettcott Farm, among the hills at — — l 
the south side of the peninsula. The former was established by М 
J. С. Crawford in 1840, the later by Mr. Francis Molesworth, the farm- 
house being constructed of stones rolled down from the surrounding hillsides. 
I believe that a portion of the stone walls is still in existence. The late 
Mr. James Taylor, of Tawa Flat, lived at Tetteott Farm at one time in the 
early days. ee 
The remarks of Mr. Crawford: on the finding of stumps and logs b 
forest-trees in the drained bed- of Burnham Water seem to show that | | 
scooped out the bed of Burnham Water. This is hardly probable; but sand- _ 
drift from the Lyall Bay side probably formed low sand-ridges o i | 
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