Parihaka Meeting.

Patea Mail, 21 December 1880, Page 3

Parihaka Meeting.

TE WHITES ADVWE. A correspondent of the Press Association, writing on Friday, says:—The Parihaka meeting was largely attended, although not quite so many as at the half-yearly mooting. No allusion was made tothemurdcror, Tuhiata. At nine o’clock, the food was placed on the murac, and after an hour and a quarter having been spent on its division and partial consumption, the so-called prisoners (i. e., those who have been continually at the fences) and women marched on to the marac in single file. When they had taken their seats Tc Wliiti commenced speaking. He exhorted his people to continue good exactly as they had been ; to resist all provocation to commit a breach of tho pence, that all might see whoso work was good and whoso was bad. Ho characterised the w T ork of the Government as eminently had, but bade bis followers to be long-suffering. If any persons of the races inhabiting the island wished to judge which is right ami which is wrong, lot them come to Parihaka and see ami hoar for themselves. Lot your behaviour be as of old, ami look quietly on the evil which is being done von. Tho Land Courts that are being held are bad, and are all things given to this generation of Maoris. The speech of To W' hiti lasted an hour, and as also did that of Tohu ; after which Tc Whiti spoke again for a few minutes.

Tohu said it was correct that there were only two things to be said. f ihe first was that they must continue in their present behaviour, and the other, that if anyone wished to judge of the conduct of the two nations let them come to Parihaka and sec. He said whilst they were walking quiet, they were not la/.y, for a man had arisen who was working for them. To Whiti’s final remarks were made in a voice of anger. At first he called them a deceitful and lying people, but raid that Jehovah had taken them under his protection, and bade them cease fearing for the result. In conclusion he said that those who had escaped prison were reposing quietly ; and the land was lying in the same place as of old. When the first arose the latter would be returned to them. Both Tc Whiti and Tohu strongly deprecated the auctions of land, and the latter spoke of them as equal in badness to a war, but bade the natives not to interfere. DIVISION OF LAND. Pnngarehu, Saturday. The Parihaka meeting has closed. Tito Kowaru and his people return to the Plains for a few days to fetch corn, to bo taken into the bush ai the back of Parihaka, where large clearings arc being made. The whole of the bush land between the Mountain and Parihaka has been divided between the tribes inhabiting the West Coast near to Parihaka. “ There’s music in the heir,” moaned the young’ husband as be reached for the paregoric bottle. According to the Dundee Acherlher, a now variety of potato called the Grampian has been established in Aberdeenshire. Cereals all require silica for straw and phosphates for grain. Peas, beans, lucerne and clover require lime, hoot crops all require potash.