THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE “KING-MAKER.”

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 135, 14 August 1863, Page 3

THE SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE “KING-MAKER.”

William Thompson, who is sometimes known ns the “king-maker,” is exerting himself most strenuously to stimulate the present war, and it would appear from the following that the civilizing influences that have been brought to bear upon this man have been uselessly expended. It will be recollected that about the commencement of the present war, William Thompson left the Waikato, and it was supposed that he had gone to live in peace and quietness on some of his Maori estates ; not so, however, for be has now shown his true colors. Ho has been down along the East Coast rousing the natives to fight the pakehas. To Archdeacon Brown he sent a kind of manifesto, in which he stated his reasons for making war. One of his reasons is, he says, that the Governor refused to allow him, (Thompson) to get back the Tataraimaka, the reply the Governor made on that occasion being, it will be remembered, that he was strong enough to take it himself. Thompson’s second reason for waging war is that tlie soldiers had killed so many Maoris at Koheroa! and that they had killed the innocent with the guilty. These were his principal reasons, and he is therefore determined to fight. He warned Archdeacon Brown and all the people at Tauranga to go away at once, because he was determined not to spare the unarmed or their property. These were his own words, “I will not spare the unarmed or their properly.” The manifesto ends with tho following remarkable expression : “If the pakohas are strong it is good; which is tantamount to saying that the struggle shall be to decide who is the strongest. 11 seems that Thompson has succeeded in rousing his Maori friends on the East Coast greatly. ' Wc understand that they arc well supplied with food, and that some of them are employed in baking all their flour into dampers, as if preparing for a warlike expedition. —Daily Rmithern Cross August, 3rd.