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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3229, 4 November 1881, Page 2

To-mobrow is tbe day appointed for the proclamation to tbe natives at Parihaka to take effect, and the question that awaits solution is, will there be fighting ? Te Whiti's last utterances lead to the belief that he dreads a breach of the peace, for in the event of a fight the hollowness of his pretensions to supernatural power would be instantly exposed. In his address at Parihaka the other day day, Te Whiti admitted that in September he had counselled resistance, and had spoken of war as a necessity, " but," he continued, " things were quite different then. There were only a few Constabulary on the land. All this is changed now. The land is covered with armed men. Every south wind blows soldiers. They come in great numbers, 1 and they are all armed." He therefore strouely advised his followers to be very careful what they did, to be sure they did not make the soldiers angry, or else they would be killed ; to give no offence to the Government lest they should be destroyed by these swarms of armed men with their guns. They must not carry on u pakanga" now. Tiiey were to be patient, and still to trust in him. If they continued to resist passively and patiently, but without violence, and relied on him, they should all be saved and still possess the land. They must not either go away or take gun 9to defend themselves, as in; either case they would bring God's wrath on thero, and they would be destroyed. They must remain at Parihaka and keep the peace, whatever might happen." Mr James Mackay, writing to the Auckland Herald, says :—"lf the natives are of tbe same mind as when I saw them on three occasions at Parihaka, they will not resist our marching to the settlement and surrounding it, as they were then firmly impressed with the idea that the: European force would be destroyed bysupernatural means, as prophesied by le Whiti." i