TE WHITI ON THE GOVERNMENT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5770, 26 September 1879, Page 2

TE WHITI ON THE GOVERNMENT.

(FROM a COUUESrONDENT.') Nokmanby, Thursday. I have returned from Parihaka. Over two thousand natives were present at the meeting, which lasted four days. Te "Whiti likens himself to the stone that was discarded in ancient times, and informed us that it has been found, and upon its being raised up would settle all disputed matters ; and he likens the actions the Government are taking to the spurring of a horse, inciting them. The ruling of everything is given to him. If the Government wished to discharge the prisoners from prison, he says they could not do it without he consents. He is gradually losing caste. Waikato challenged him to raise the stone, and let them see and believe. He answered that the working of the cultivations rested with the owners, and when the fruit was ripe, ho (the owner) would gather it. He sent the prisoners, ho says, not to plough the laud, but the belly of the Government. Altogether, the feeling is not so friendly as heretofore towards the Government. He is a grub, and the Europeans a pumpkin plant, although lookers-on (the Europeans) cannot see that the grub is eating the roots and killing the plant. His (Te Whiti's) sword is sharp at both sides for Europeans and Maoris.