Trial of Maori Prisoners.
The Government have again postponed the elate of trial of the Maori prisoners from the West Coast, who have been confined in the Dunedin gaol since the ploughing disturbance on the Wahnate Plains in the autumn of last year. Monday the 26th July is now fixed and gazetted for commencing the long deferred trial. It is intended, apparently, to fix the date late enough to enable the road-making on the Plains to be practically completed by making the two unfinished ends meet near Parihaka. If, therefore, any disturbance is to ensue as a consequence of that junction of the roads, the Government will have realised the worst before the ploughing prisoners are brought to trial. We may take it that if those strong, devout, reckless fanatics were released about the period of the roads meeting, the return of some 125 unpunished rebels to the Parihaka country would precipitate a fresh outbreak of resistance and destruction, in all probability.
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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 543, 8 July 1880, Page 2
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