The maori pattern, you mean; the New Zealand dodge?
"The Mark Of Cain"
Andrew Lang
The maori wars have cost us many lives, but, of course, have always had the same ending.
"Six Letters From the Colonies"
Robert Seaton
He was an artist, whose second wife and several children had been murdered by the maoris near Wanganui during the maori insurrection of the forties, and he had come to Adelaide with the three survivors.
"An Autobiography"
Catherine Helen Spence