THE KINGITE MEETING.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2530, 18 May 1882, Page 3

THE KINGITE MEETING.

rPBBBB ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.]

ALEXANDRA, May 17.

To-day’s meeting commenced about 11 o’clock. Tawhaio came on the ground very drunk and lay among the people. . After the lapse of a few minutes Paul of Orakei referred at some length to the state of Tawhiao, saying that on account of the same nothing could be done that day. Te Wheoro followed, and admitted the unseemly state of things, and reproached the chief of the people for setting an example of drunkenness instead of endeavoring to suppress the same. He hoped all the people, including Mr Bush, the Government representative, would assist him in bringing matters before Par lament, so that a settlement cauld be arrived at.

Whanui spoke at length, advocating the establishment of a press. Tawhaio, who, during the meeting was lying incapable on the ground, got on his feet about 1 30 o’clock and delivered the following speech :—I wish that Parliament should be brought to Auckland, so that I may go there and speak and converse freely with it. If the late Sir D. McLean were living I would not regard anything you should say. I would have gone with him had he li?ed. Two words he spoke—just words and great words—and I could not overcome these words, and I was drawing near to them. Although he is dead hi* words live, although he was a Maori (?) and I was pakeha (?) he was like to me. I would have been taken by and bye. Although he is not here he is still in exist' nee in spirit, and I will go hither and hither in the district. Tawhaio then ably referred to some money matters with Sir Donald, and proceeded thus : —I said “ Take the money away back to the bank, and let that money intended for me remain there.” Addressing the pakeha he said—Lst your administration be correct, even beyond what I expected, so that it may be beyond what I have already uttered. Speaking of Te Whiti, Tohu and Hiroki, Tawhaio then said he wished that they were present, that he might speak of them. What man was without love for his people ? Therefore he desired to look upou these people that they might talk toget her. He then proceeded—lf I see a man going through the district I will not conceal it, but make it known. I shall say—“ Lie down quietly and peacefully.” If I find that the Europeans are similar to those of Sir D. MoT.B*n, I sh ill be taken away. I should fake him, and he take me. I shall run hither and thi her ; so shall Puhuki, Paul of Orakei, drey of Mongonui, and Topia. This one a; d that one will run about through the district. Let all your arrangements be carried out rightly, so that I may secure these good things and kindly things. Therefore, I say, “Let your actions be just, just, just," Let things be done so that I may carry in my arms that which is good and that which is right. Don’t suppose that I am one to leap here and leap there. Let your European administrators be just, and my word be fixed upon that. Understand that Whatwhatihoe is the place of the Maoris, and here I am the man ; and Alexandra is the place of the pakeha*, and there j am the man. Whatever results you corns to they will be submitted to me. All the evils have been trodden down under my feet. The confusion and darkness, as well as other things, and this day I put them under my feet, so that we might do good to one another. What Mr Whitaker said about tramping on the soil under foot, and that everything should be peaceful, was right. You have heard that I have been to Auckland. If I see what is right I shall be there and rest on what is right, and if I see what is wrong I will not accede to it. Be patient, so that we may all sit together and became united. I say about the printing press it is mine. It is right; and let the wor sof all the places be right. These words are at an end.