THE PARIHAKA MEETING.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1920, 20 April 1880, Page 3

THE PARIHAKA MEETING.

[By Telegraph.] NEW PLYMOUTH, April 19. The f’arihaka meeting has terminated, and the Natives are now returning home through the town. There were not very many Natives present, and but few Europeans. Te Whiti, in his speech, said ho had little to say, having tola thorn everything at the March meeting. Fe had nothing to toll them about the land, iu fact there was nothing for him to tell them at all. He said that all the Commissioners wore doing would end in nothing. The way people were being governed and had been governed from the time the pakehaa first Ended in New Zealand, was a caution to future generations. The Government would never succeed in settling the land in question, for t he Maoris and pakeha will never agree on that point. God did not make the land for it to be quarrelled about. Ho could not see any cause for their fighting, and let the Natives see to it that there be no trouble. Neither the King (Tawkaio) nor the Government Would succeed in settling tho land question. Ho had said before that no earthly power could settle it. The Government might try and divide tho land, but they would no; succeed iu doing it. Everything at present was mixed up. Everything was in confusion. Everything was at sixes and sevens, and nothing in order. There were two things going on at present—roa i making on the land, and tho Commissioners stting on tho land but nothing would come of it all. Everything that was being done was wrong, and .he Government had better leave everything as it was before the Pakeha* had got the fat or the land. No Maori lord ever seen any good come from money they had received for land that they had sold. ’Nobody deserved any praise for what had been done in the country, tor it was oil had, and, as ho had said hr Lore, it should be a warning to future generations. Hr had nothing further to say, bur. they should ponder well on his remarks to tlnm at the March, meeting. The Natives’who arc returning home are in good spirits. They say “no fight,” but it is evident from their remarks that they are aa firm believers in Te Whiti as over they were.