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Genealogies of Kingi and Teira.

The presumption from notoriety as regards Kingi's right to the chieftainship at the Waitara, does not appear to have been overruled by other evidence of a decisive character; for had this been the case, the Government, in the excited state of the country, were bound to give it all publicity without delay. Nothing which deserves the name of evidence on this point is traceable in the debates in the House of Representatives, or the public papers. An attempt, indeed, but appa- page 38 rently not a serious one, has been made to set up Teira's right as Chief of the tribe, against Wiremu Kingi, by the publication of a genealogical tree, in which Teira's pedigree is traced back seventeen generations to an ancestor of the name of Kahuiti. An anonymous writer, but evidently one of some mark, who contends, against the supporters of Kingi's right, that there is "no feudal lordship amongst the Maories," remarks upon this pedigree "that it would seem to lead us to a conclusion the reverse of that which was intended," in suggesting the likelihood that W. Kingi and his party, upon principles of intra-tribal right, have a claim upon the land of the tribe, for "Wiremu Kingi's descent may be traced by thirteen generations through a woman of the name of Maurirangi to the very same stock."—(Dr. Feather-stone's Speech, Southern Cross, Sept. 1; Letter of Anglo-Maori, Ib., July 31.)