TE WHITI AND TITO KOWARU.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1582, 15 March 1879, Page 3

TE WHITI AND TITO KOWARU.

[Press Special Wire.] Hawera, March 14. By the return presented to tbe House only 32,000 acres appear under the proclamation for the Provincial district of Taranaki, on which .£ISOO has been paid, but in addition to this, Major Brown has purchased the Matetuonga block from the Ngatimaru people, 50,000 acres in extent, on which only a small deposit has been paid. Great credit is due to Major Brown for his discretion in the management of affairs in this district, in his capacity of Civil and Land Purchase Commissioner. Te Whiti says that, like himself, ho has only one eye ■. therefore, his whole soul is full of light It is said that the reason of Tito Kowaru’s sullen acquiescence in the survey of the Waimate Plains, is that he bides his time. Te "Whiti has promised the restoration of vVaimate in March, and Tito is acquiescent to see the result of the Srophet’ s promise i. Were ho to undertake the conuct of affairs just now, the Native youth would urge the commission of rash acts which the older chiefs would not sanction, so he sits still. What he wants is the restoration of his chieftainship. Now that the name and idea of March has been introduced, Te Whiti adapts himself to contingencies, although the present March has come and is passing away. Te Whiti reminds his people that there are mere Marchs than one, and the one current may or may not be the Maori millennium. But the Maoris to a man in this district feel certain that in some March or other either in the present or future, Te Whiti i* going to give them back their confiscated lands.