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It is now used for the whole. 1873. J. H. St. John [Title]: "Pakeha Rambles through Maori Lands." 1874. J. C. Johnstone [Title]: "Maoria: a sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand." 1884. Kerry Nicholls [Title]: "The King Country, or Explorations in New Zealand. A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel through Maoriland." 1884. [Title]: "Maoriland: an Illustrated Handbook to New Zealand." 1886. Annie R. Butler [Title] "Glimpses of Maori Land." 1890. T. Bracken [Title]: "Musings in Maori Land." 1896. `The Argus,' July 22, p. 4, col. 8: "Always something new from Maoriland! Our New Zealand friends are kindly obliging us with vivid illustrations of how far demagogues in office will actually go." <hw>Maorilander</hw>, <i>n</i>. modern name for a white man born in New Zealand. 1896. `Melbourne Punch,' April 9, p. 233, col. 2: "Norman is a pushing young Maorilander who apparently has the Britisher by the right ear." <hw>Maori, White</hw>, New Zealand miners' name for a stone. See quotation. 1883. `A Citizen,' `Illustrated Guide to Dunedin,' p. 169: "Tungstate of lime occurs plentifully in the Wakatipu district, where from its weight and colour it is called <i>White Maori</i> by the miners." <hw>Mapau</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Maori name for several New Zealand trees; called also <i>Mapou</i>, and frequently corrupted by settlers into <i>Maple</i>, by the law of Hobson-Jobson. The name is applied to the following-- The Mapau-- <i>Myrsine urvillei</i>, De C., <i>N.O. Myrsineae</i>; sometimes called <i>Red Mapau</i>. Black M.-- <i>Pittosporum tenuifolium</i>, Banks and Sol., <i>N.O. Pittosporeae</i>; Maori name, <i>Tawhiri</i>. White M.-- <i>Carpodetus serratus</i>, Forst., <i>N.O. Saxifrageae</i>; <i>Pittosporum eugenoides</i>, A. Cunn.; Maori name, <i>Tarata</i> (q.v.); called also the <i>Hedge-laurel</i> (q.v.), <i>Lemon-wood</i>, and <i>New Zealand Oak</i>. See <i>Oak</i>. The first of these trees (<i>Myrsine urvillei</i>) is, according to Colenso, the only tree to which the Maoris themselves give the name <i>Mapau</i>. The others are only so called by the settlers. 1868. `Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,' vol. i., `Essay on Botany of Otago,' p. 37: "White Mapau, or Piripiri-whata (<i>Carpodetus serratus</i>), an ornamental shrub-tree, with mottled-green leaves, and large cymose panicles of white flower
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