HISTORICAL PARALLEL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 705, 2 August 1869, Page 3

HISTORICAL PARALLEL.

ijß. Cbacroft Wilson writes as folj off 3 to the Evening Post : gir—-The late news which has arrived . om Auckland to the effect that Te Kooti ; been made a High Priest by Tawhaio, ill justify my asking you to insert the following quotations —the first from a work fhe Indian mutiny and rebellion, and !j, e second from Sir Herbert Edwardes' epor t on the same subject : There was nnother poiat on the Peshawar froni'erfrom which danger threatened during the latter i'art of this month (July, 1857.) Across our borL line, on the edsre of the Kazofzaie country, is a village called Noringee. Here a Moulvie (High Priest), a well-known turbulent character, had unfurled 'the green flag of the Prophet, and was preaching a crusade against the Nazarenes. The Ghuzees (Mahommedan martyrs) came, fljth the Moulvie at their head, and planted their itandard (embroidered with butchery from the Koraa) on the heights of Noringee. "'J his- mountain tillage was so strongly situated that the police scarcely dared to go near if, and it became a refuse for every evildoer. Its inhabitants, about 400 in number, welcomed the Moulvie with deMit. The holy war seemed auspiciously opened Jtli every requisite—a priest, a banner, a fastjess, a howling crowd of bigots, and several days' provisions. If the public will substitute tho follower words in lieu of certain words in the above quotations, they seem to give a very correct description of a portion of the northern part of Now Zealand at this prejtat moment : for Peshawar read Waikato " July, 1857 " July, 18G9 " Euzofzaio " Maniapoto " Noringee " Tokanjjamtu " Moulvie " High Priest " Ghazees " Haulmu fanatics " Koran " Karakia PefuriC the world to stigmatise me as ID alarmist, I beg to subsciibe mys. If, Your obedient servant, J. CIiACIiJFT WIISON, C.B.