THE PARIHAKA TANGI.
MAORI ORATORY CONTINUES,
DREAM OF MAORI NATIONHOOD GONE.
Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 24,
The Pariliaka tangi continues on a decreasing scale. After feasting on Friday afternoon speechifying in Maori was resumed till darkness fell.
Nothing new transpired. In the majority of cases the speakers were advising the Maori to bow to the inevitable. The dream of Maori nationhood had gone, they said; (the page of Maori history taught by Te Whiti that the Maori should he a separate, self-contained, self-govern-ing people had closed with the passing of their chief. There had "now been an awakening, and the old order must give slace to the now. Hundreds of sightseers have gone out from town to-day to visit the settlement, where native hospitality is extended with open hand.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2046, 25 November 1907, Page 2
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