WAIKATO.
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Hamilton, October 28. Hoanihas returned from Waitara. Rewi, I hear, is coming back to Puuui very soon. A messenger from Grey to Tawhiio has gone to urge the King to assent in writing to the offer made at Hikurangi, and to beg humbly for an expression of the King’s confidence in the Premier and Mr. Sheehan, to put in the papers. Manga (Rewi) conlplaias of being pestered by Government agents, and says that he does not send all the telegrams reported to come from him. He will not return to Waitara, and the great March meeting will not come off there. Te Whiti wants to have a meeting at Pari* haka, I hear. He has discovered a new Atua, an article altogether superior to any of the old gods, and Te Whiti, as his prophet, promises that true believers will recover tbe confiscated lands and have plenty of cattle, of gold, and of all good things. The mana of the Atua is to be greater than the mana of Tawhiao or of Rewi, and the pakeha must clear out. The Tekau-ma-rua and a section of natives ace leaving Waikato to join Te Whiti ; they are now busy selling their cattle, horses, pigs, &c. Hiroki, the man who killed McLean at the survey camp, is, I hear, at Parihaka. He was wounded by McLean, and not by the natives who were in chase of him. The ball passed through or round the abdomen, and lodged in his back. He says lie cut it out himself. He is quite a hero at Parihaka, and ,Te Whiti honors him very much. Te Whiti : has asked Sheehan to go and see him, but requested him not to bring any *• dogs” with him. If . Grey and Sheehan go to Parihaka and hold a meeting Hiroki may be surrendered for trial on conditions which will be very hard. Te Whiti will play the big man, and open his mouth very wide about the Waimate Plains and the confiscated land. Manga probably nee-* trouble ahead, and wishes to keep out of the way. .There is much uneasiness amongst the natives, and distrust anenfc the land buying, Priendly relations appear not so securely established as they were “at last” some three months since, and the words “ all-a-gammon ” are very commonly used in conversation by aboriginals upon politics.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5493, 4 November 1878, Page 2
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