RUA, THE PROPHET
PREDICTS A NEW DELUGE. - Auckland, March 2. The “Star’s” travelling correspondent states that Rua, the. Maori prophet, is beginning to stir up things again. He is now selling his dairy herd at Matahei and is returning with his large family to his old stronghold at Maimgapohatu. From here, after much consideration, he has made the announcement that there will be two weeks of total darkness sometime before the end of next May, and then the heavens will be riven asunder by lightning and a deluge will follow, inundating the whole country until every living thing at Waimana, Ruatoki, Wihakatane, and Opotiki will be drowned. The only safe refuge, the prophet adds, will be at Maungapohatu, where he is now collecting all the faithful. Already about 2000 Maoris are treking „ there, sacrificing their money for the purchase of stores and galvanised iron, for Rua decrees that they must not dive in tents, as lightning will destroy everything inflammable.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3609, 5 March 1927, Page 2
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160RUA, THE PROPHET Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3609, 5 March 1927, Page 2
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