TE WHITI'S FOLLOWERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2282, 16 November 1889, Page 2

TE WHITI'S FOLLOWERS.

A correspondent of the " Hawera Bias" writes ai follows :— Among the varloua mutations In tbo Parlbaka agltatlon, perhspi there Is no obange bo ntrango »« that I have now to ohronfolo; These people, who oliDg io Te Whltl, have suffered Imprisonment, hare abandoned their lands and Jived on territory which does not belong to them at the bidding of the prophet. They are now wilting for the ootnlng of ''The Son of man." And m order that the son of man might find eaoh one under hie own Alne and his own fig tree they have determined to abandon their holdings held under tribal tennre, and eaoh one to go to the .plaoe to whloh be or she is Individually entitled. It is to bo hoped that the movement m significant of good m the Interests of settlement. The Natives of Oeo who ate living under Hone Plharaa are selling their stock and leaving, eaoh for his ancestral home. There mast be a significance m this. The oou.nolls of To Whlti and Toho are peculiarly esoteric. They have no familiar friends who wilt dtvalge the subject to Earopeans. We can only judge by the results, and draw conolaalons from aotlons which htve frannplrod, This being ao % cannot ' wo see that that the present movement is taken as a preliminary step towards a definite araertlon of their rights to the lands held nndev what are called ' the confirmed leases, The Natives who are leaving for their ancestral homes are those belonging especially to the lands In whloh these leases have boon granted. There appears to bo a menaoe In tho movement—a determination to assert a right, legitluute or otherwise,