TITOKOWARU ON THE MARCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1576, 8 December 1885, Page 2

TITOKOWARU ON THE MARCH.

Titokowaru with over a thousand natives has again come and gone. These periodical visitations are becoming a - erase among them. I have attempted to fathom the object of these, marches and counter marches, but the natives are very reticent about the matter, and the only information I have .discovered is that it is done under instruction from ' ' To Whiti, who has instilled into them ■ some yague idea that after a certain number of marches the land will . revert back to them. They consider that the wall is already crumbling- nt various — points of the line of march, and they. instanced Parihaka and the White Cliffs. Titokowaru m a speech to the natives on Sunday told them it was his intention to stay m Patea foar days, and 'that If the Patea natives could not feed them Te Whiti would provide;! but thatMf he had to do so the locarnatiyes^ wcmld be 3isgraced. , They •' left -torday for his Bettl«ment f roth, theace ihjay^ gc> '-tp Parihata, Waitara; and tti»/Whit« ClifEs, returning back £gain the same way to Patea, doing the ohceSa month. Titokowaru tod me it was not true., as stated iii the Herald that 1 t£ey intended visiting Wangauni. The Patea '.natives m providing food for such a multitude are greatly impoverished, and getting into debt right and left, which they will never be able to discharge as I am ' informed their future inc6nie is heavily mortgaged. Titokowaru'smonthly visits have frightened the Patea natives. Their chief requested the Mayor" to interview Tito m a friendly manner, explaining the position, that it was simply impossible for them to ; stand ? many more visits and- pay their way. The wily old sinner (Tit*) told His Worship that that would, not prevent them from coming ! Herald.