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Temuka Leader, Issue 263, 22 May 1880, Page 2

It may not be generally known (says the Manawatu Times) that Manawatu can boast of a rival prophet to the seer __ of Parihaka. The wise man, whose name i« Kere, resides at Awapunv-and liis predictions are held in great respect . by his dusky followers. Amongst other of his proohecies is one that in a tew weeks this country will be again jolted bv a flood, which in its magnitude will tar surpass that recently experienced..; So implicitly is it believed by the Maoris that from Jackeytown to the Oroua Bridge there has been a general stampede with their stock, goods, and irom the low grounds to the hills in the immediate vicinity. Those of the tribe who are riendly with Europeans are beginning to feel wroth with the sceptical and unbelieving Christians who will not secure their own safety while fh ex ® * s time, and insult the power of their prophet by treating his admonitions with contempt. The heavy stores prevailing last week, and the prsse indications of more bad weather, will no doubt be considered by K re s followers - as verification of his gift of prophecy. Combination and invention are able to mere accuracy of copying. An® sublimest poem ever written npon agara was from the pen of a P°* w never saw if, and the statuary who who. chiselled the Apollo Belvedere and the. Venus de Medici hod never seen a good . or a goddes. ~ With double vigilance should we watch our actions when we that good and bad ones are never chiwKss ; and that in both cases the offspring goes beyond the parents -every go. d begetting a better, and every bad a worse.