Parihaka Meeting.
LAND TO BE RETURNED. Pungaraehu, Saturday. The monthly meeting at Parihaka yesterday was largely attended by natives. About 400 released prisoners were present, and received a fresh welcome. Te Whiti addressed the returned prisoners, the other natives being grouped round listening. The Prophet referred to events during the last four years, reminding them that the most important were all in the month of June, the month in which the prisoners returned. Their imprisonment had done no harm to the Maori cause, for theirs was a strife for liberty. They had been taken away, but the Government could not keep them away, but returned them. So it would bo with the i land. It would also be returned to them, if any trouble happened. The prisoners, he said, are rising in importance, while the Europeans are going down. MORMON PUT DOWN. Mr Sorensen had come from New Plymouth, and after giving some tracts attempted to address the meeting. He was compelled to stop. STOPPING A GRAVEL PIT. A correspondent says the natives livingnear Tearapara obstructed the men engaged in metalling the road. The gravel pit was opened in one of last year’s wheat fields, and the natives collected together in the pit and refused to move, so that the men had to desist working. The pit is two miles from Parihaka.
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Patea Mail, 21 June 1881, Page 3
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