TE WHITI AND TOHU.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2582, 17 July 1882, Page 3

TE WHITI AND TOHU.

[VBOM OTTB OOBUBSPONDHNT.I WELLINGTON, Jdly 16. Te Whi i and Tohu arc reported a* being very well satisfied with their removal to Nelson and with their intended sojourn there for six months or so, but when they were first told they would have to go on board the Stella for another sea voyage, they were much annoyed and grumbled exceedingly, remarking, “You might just as well kill us at once ana have done with it. Why don’t you kill us now ?’’ They seemed suspicious that something not disclosed was to be done to them, and evidently dreaded their coming removal. When, however, they once got on board and tbc steamer started they seemed to recover their spirits and soon became at ease, Te Whiti resuming his ordinary quiet good humor and Tohu not being more sullen than usual. They were unfortunate in having very bad weather in rounding the South ana West coasts, but boro the discomfort very patiently. I hear that Te Whiti displayed much

anxiety aa to the fate of Hiroki, which was for aome time concealed from him. He repressed hia curiosity a* long as he could, but at last asked straight what was done with Hiroki. He was told that the murderer had been hanged, and that he had confessed his crime. On this To Whiti expressed great contempt for him as a poltroon, and seemed much disgusted at his baring demeaned himself so for as to confess, and to show fear of death. Te Whiti afterwards said he did not like the idea of Hiroki having been hanged. He was a bad man, and had committed crime, and deserved to be pnntshed, but be did not think it right to kill him. Nobody ought to kill anybody else. Ho also seamed downcast and “ pouri ” when he heard of Winiata’s arrest and probable fate, but he did not dispute the justice of the proceedings.