THE WHITES LATEST VIEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 382, 14 December 1878, Page 2

THE WHITES LATEST VIEWS.

[From the Taranaki Herald'}

Te Whiti, a leading chief of the Taranaki tribe, whose residence is Parihaka, has, as is well known, for many years exercised a profound influence over a certain section of the West Coast tribes. Of late his influence has extended beyond his own people, and his political policy, like some of his white-faced political contemporaries, has been a constant succession of surprises. Fortunately, he has not had the difficulty of even a local finance to mar bis political programme, and a deficit instead of a surplus at the end of the year has no terror for him. Unlimited faith, however, is necessary, and that is a bank which appears to honor his drafts to an unlimited extend. The spiritual world, with its splendid possibilities, is the region where in's chief plots are laid ; there, in the misty obscurity to all but him, is writ in mystic language the future political career of the Maori race. Each vision fades away but to reveal another of equally startling import, and his faithful, if credulous and deluded followers, view with awe and wonder each succeeding inspired deliverance of the Prophet chief. Perhaps To Whiti is himself among the deluded, and is but the victim of bis disordered fancy ; but, like other visionaries, there is a method in his madness that indicates an ambition for things terrestrial, or at any rate, for wielding power over the Maori people. Among his latest utterances he has said that at the March meeting at Waitara, Tawhiao will be present with Hewi, and all the leading chiefs will go to Parihaka, and the ills of the land will he healed. In time there will be a new king. Tawhiao will bo superseded, just as Moses was superseded by Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is now superseded by Joseph. Who that future king will be Te Whiti has not yet announced. It will he says, be for the Maori and Pakeha, when both united, to say. Such are the curious ideas which this man promulgates among his followers ; fortunately he is sagacious enough to preach peace, his leading doctrine being that there is to he no more killing. We are curious to learn how he will ultimately deal with Hiroki, who has broken that law, but who has nevertheless taken refuge in Parihaka.

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