THE PARIHAKA MEETING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1250, 20 April 1880, Page 2

THE PARIHAKA MEETING.

New Plymouth, April 19. The Parihaka meeting has terminated, and the natives are now returning home through the town. There were not very many natives present, and but few Europeans. Te Whiti, in-his speech, said he had little to say, having told them everything at the March. meeting. He had nothing to tell them about land—in fact, there was nothing for him to tell them at I all. He said . that all the Commissioners [ were doing would end in nothing. The : way the people were being governed, and had been governed from the time the Pakehas first landed in New Zealand, wast a caution to future generations. The Government would never succeed in settling the land question, for the Maoris and Pakehas would never agree on that point. God did not make the land for it to be quarrelled about. He could not see any cause for their fightings, and let natives see to it that there would be no trouble with the King (Tawhiao) nor the Government. The Government could not succeed in guttling the land question ; he had said sq, before, that no earthly power could settle it. The Government might try and ! divide the land, but they would not sue-. 1 ceed in doing it. Everything at .present was mixed up ; everything- was in confusion ; everything waa at sixes and sevens; and nothing wa,s. in order. There were two things going on a,t present, roadmaking (Pakanoa). on the land, and the sitting on the land—but : nothing would come of it all. Everything : that, was being done was wrong, and the* Government had better leave everything as it was before the Pakehas had got the fat of the land. No Maoyi had ever sew any good; come from mojftey they had received for fend that they had sold. Nobody deserved any. praise for- what had -been done in the oountry, for it waa all bad, -and aa he had said it should be a warning to future generations. He had nothing further to say, but they should ponder well on his remarks to them at the March meeting. The natives, who are returning home, are in good spirits. They say " no fight," but it is evident from iheiy remarks they are as firm believers, in Te Whiti as ever they ve?e.