The two main events of the month are the murder of the Rev. Mr Yolkner by

required rites. Maori prayer, therefore, was as much a mechanical operation as cookery. And their morality was in ac cordance with the state of their theology — if that can be called morality which, having no other sanction than the very narrowest utility, prescribed to each man little else than what seemed good in his own eyes. Even from this bare outline it may be judged what probability there was of such a people suddenly becoming Christians in reality, and whether it ought to surprise us if we find that they subse quently revert to their old heathen prac tices.
