THE NEW MAORI FAITH.
(From t’ns Daily Southern Cross.) The following is an extract from a letter written by a native living near Tauranga to one in Auckland, anti shows that the missionaries of the new faith have been active in the Tauranga district:— There ia another nowgoi coming. Intelligence has arrived that the men of this new god are Kikoinako and Tautahij and it is stated that this god is coming by way of Waikato. He is coming on to Auckland, and the men who are to storm Auckland number seventy persons atiother army ot this god is coming to light with the A raw a s ; and. the men who are to stand U" against the Arawas are thirteen in number. It nj the rumour only that wo hear j but the Hgaiterangis arc undecided as to whether tbov will or stay. 1 heard, indirectly, that one tribe ofTauranga, the Ngaitamarawho, had gone over to the [new] religion ; that tribe, however, were Hauluma lormeily.
On hearing that seventy men were coming to storm Auckland, and thirteen to extinguish the Arawas, we expressed some astonishment at the smallness of She force, but the native who had "received the letter explained that their god would be with ii:mn, and that in those circumstances two could chase a thousand. ’
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 386, 18 June 1866, Page 1
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218THE NEW MAORI FAITH. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 386, 18 June 1866, Page 1
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